Christian Christmas v. Regular Christmas?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/23/2007 03:04 PM, Charles Doyle wrote:
>Of course, the anagrammatical connection between "Santa" and "Satan"
>has been prominent in the discourse of the sanctified for some years.
>
>As long as we are waxing onomastical: My wife insists that a nun who
>taught her during her formative years of Catholic schooling
>proclaimed that "Luther" is a variant pronunciation of "Lucifer."

Luther's mother lithped?

And the connection between "God" and "Dog", for which the authority
is surely the (South / Central American and Chinese?) mythology in
which, when God created the world, he took his dog with him (or
delegated his dog to create the world?)

Joel

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