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To: Lane3 who wrote (89370)	12/5/2004 3:59:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

Just spoke to my mother about Christmas in the public square when she was growing up (Great Depression and WWII) in Biloxi. She said she never saw any type of display except in front of churches, but points out that there were not all the lights and other decorations then, anywhere. People either could not afford them or had other priorities. She also pointed out that the Pledge of Allegiance did not have "under God" as a provision back then, either, which is true. It was added in the 1950's, as a response to Communism ("atheistic Godless Communism"). For that matter, fundamentalism is newish. It got started in the 1890s, but there was a sort of hiatus and it had a resurgence in the 1970's. I haven't researched this but it seems to me that the desire for nativity scenes in public squares and Ten Commandment statues in courthouses are also newish phenomena that coincide with the growth of fundamentalism. People are talking about an older time that never actually existed. I have had the good fortune to visit courthouses in Virginia that are more than 200 years old, and have yet to see one that had the Ten Commandments displayed anywhere.