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


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