Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
Robert A. Uhl (ruhl@phoebe.cair.du.edu)
31 Aug 1995 23:26:06 GMT
In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950831142616.67517B-100000-100000-100000-100000@spider.usp.br>,
Luis Marcelo Schultz <lschultz@spider.usp.br> wrote:
> I can say one: the use of candles in the church
>derives from pagans rituals (adoring the Sun) AND was taken by the church
>precisely to take the pagans into OUR church.
No, candles have a meaning which they had long before the Church
even attempted to bring the pagans into her arms. hat to break it to
you, bub.
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