ANNOUNCE: A *second* Python 2.1 release candidate!

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Sat Apr 21 04:34:26 EDT 2001


In article <slrn9e1ph5.jco.wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net>, William
Tanksley <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> writes
>On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:05:03 -0400, D-Man wrote:
>>On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:50:18PM +0000, William Tanksley wrote:
>>| Easter and Passover are only linked to Christians,
>
>>Not so.  Passover comes from Jewish tradition.
>
>Context: he claimed, "Easter and Passover are linked because they're
>religious."
>
>I rebutted that by noting that Easter and Passover are only linked to
>Christians.
>
>Perhaps a better wording would have been "are only linked *by*
>Christians."
>
>In other words, Easter and Passover are linked together (only in Christian
>theory). I'm not claiming that both are linked directly to Christians.
>
>There, make more sense now?
>
>>-D
>
Easter and Passover are both determined using the Lunar calendar so
probably they're linked to other religions; certainly in northern Europe
there are plenty of Lunatics.
-- 
Robin Becker



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