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Why does Richard Dawkins sing Christmas carols?

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bluescat48
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12-18-2007 12:39 AM 		Reply to: Message 62 by Kitsune
12-17-2007 6:40 AM

A Christian sings them and presumably believes them, they have a special relevance. A non-Christian who sings them is, I guess, joining in and just having some fun.
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I look at it as music, period music. Many were written in the 16th to 19th centuries and show what styles were listened to in those periods.
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12-20-2007 6:04 PM 		Reply to: Message 159 by macaroniandcheese
12-20-2007 4:23 PM

Re: Sin, you unabashed pagan!!!
you people spend so much time denouncing "christian" superstition, why not "pagan" superstition?
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I denounce all superstition ie ghosts, talking with the dead, lucky numbers, bad luck, magic, astrology, spiritualism, parapsychology etc. no matter from where the source.
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12-21-2007 12:03 AM 		Reply to: Message 180 by Cold Foreign Object
12-20-2007 7:26 PM

Re: Sin, you unabashed pagan!!!
I doubt that you have the courage to denounce Alfred Russel Wallace...
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I don't denounce a person but would denounce a person's views if they conflict with mine.
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12-27-2007 12:49 PM 		Reply to: Message 273 by Archer Opteryx
12-27-2007 1:08 AM

Re: Sinister thoughts
Or her mother might just be trying to condition the girl to use her right hand for some everyday things, in the belief that this will make life easier for her in the long run. For the rest of her life your niece is going to find forks placed on her right.
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What does that have to do with which handedness one is. Having spent over 5 years in Germany, I started eating as Europeans do, with the fork in the left hand and still do. If the fork is on the right I just move the fork to the left side & knife to the right. No problem.
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