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- From: jahb@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JENNIFER A. HEISE)
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- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.144617.25477@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:46:17 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- In article <JMC.92Dec22003234@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John Mc
- Carthy) writes:
- >When some American Indians became Catholic, were they appropriating someone
- >else's spirituality?
-
- No, but when Catholics moved the birth of Jesus to the winter solistice (sp?),
- and created an "All Saints Day" the day after Samhain (? I can't remember if
- that is the name of the Oct 31 holiday), were they appropriating the pagans'
- spirituality? How about when they elevated Mary as a Mother Goddess?
- P.S. I'm a Catholic (lapsed) myself.
-
- PPS- John, it's he who refuses to do LOGIC who is doomed to talk nonsense.
- Case in point.
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