X-Message-Number: 4211 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:01:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <> Subject: Re: Religion You know how when a new religion comes along, it most easily establishes itself by finding an appropriate symbology and message in the previous establishment's rituals and social forms? Like Christians had no idea when Jesus was born, but the Roman celebration of Bacchanalia (or whatever) was hard for Christian converts to give up, and the symbol of the end of increasing darkness and the beginning of increasing light was just too good to ignore, so lo and behold, we get Christmas. Brothers and sisters, in this spiritually uplifting time of the year, I can't think of a better symbol to purloin than the celebration of death and resurrection itself. So to all atheists, existentialists, and true confronters of the nature of human reality, especially in the springtime of the northern hemisphere, I say: HAPPY EASTER! Robin HL Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4211