[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

[wa2egp at att.net]

> i find this very interesting.  i've increasingly thought of the
> catholic church as not so much a religion as the second roman empire.
> and why [for instance] do they celebrate the saxon fertility goddess
> eostre's festival, complete with rabbits and eggs?  or samhain [celtic
> new year's] eve [halloween], complete with demon and undead costumes?

Actually they don't.  Those are not part of any services.  I guess they
try to include them since most people celebrate those things in various
ways.  Probably along the lines of when Christianity came to England, they
put churches on the sites where more ancient religions held their 
services.

Bob