We will see!  I like the content and approach; may I borrow in part?  One
lengthy discussion has already ensued over which might by oversight, be
left out.  You seem to have included almost all.

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:40:06 +0100 Boylan P <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Verlag Dr. C. Mueller-Straten wrote:
>
>> Come on, dear Bob, this can`t be true. Christianity has included so
>many rites
>> and symbols of former religions (including, of course, all
>Mediterranean ones as
>> well as Jewish ones), that you should contact an Historian
>specialised in
>> Religions immediately in order to make you fit for things to come.
>If you have
>> ever visited Europe, than you will understand, that Christendom can
>not beed
>> understood at all without the underlying older cultures...
>
>========================
>
>When I was Director of Arts & Museums for the very "multi-cultural"
>City
>of Leicester in central England (about 45% of the 270,000 population
>were
>from first or second generation immigrant families from around 80
>countries of origin in all five continents) we started the "holiday"
>displays and street lights around the beginning of October
>(preparation
>for the Hindu festival of Diwali).  The  street and other decorations
>(e.g. in schools and the museums) continued (with a few appropriate
>modifications as to current symbols) through Halloween, Guy Fawkes
>Night,
>Chanuka, Scandanavian St Nicholas & Christingle festivals, the Roman
>and
>Protestant Churches' Christmas, New Year, the Orthodox Christmas and
>then
>ran breathlessly on to Ramadan and  the festival of Eid, taking in a
>couple of Sikh Guru anniversaries on the way.  (In years with a late
>Ramadan and and early Easter or Passover the not stop festivals might
>be
>even run on with hardly a break into April!
>
>The point is that except for literally half-a-dozen noisy racists and
>Christian fundamentalists everyone seemed delighted.
>
>Clearly from what has been said on this either the US is much less
>tolerant overall (which I doubt) or - much more likely - extremist
>lobbies
>are both much better organised and taken far too seriously.
>
>Patrick Boylan
>

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