Christmas tree scrapped by Massachusetts library after people were 'uncomfortable' last year
(thepostmillennial.com)
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Christmas is non religious. Think of a Christmas movie and ask yourself if religion is involved.
The new Apple TV Christmas carol specifically goes out of the way to include Hanukkah and Eid.
Christmas is a gift giving holiday centered around Santa, decorations, and love of fellow man.
It’s honestly weird when people bring up Jesus.
Alright. So allow us our customary American secular holiday tradition and put up the damn Christmas tree.
That’s what I’m saying
It's worse than Christian; it's European. *shudders*.
The tree was originally inspired by Bishop Boniface cutting down the pagan's sacred Donar tree, and Puritans banned Christmas celebrations because it was full of drunken debauchery that wasn't too distant from a Mardi Gras party.
There is definitely a leftist push to separate Jesus from Christmas but is still the birth of Christ. Where I live, people still thing carols centered about the birth of the Lord, you still have angels in trees and we also have a priest that comes around at this time to talk to people.
I don't doubt that leftist hellholes are separating Christ from Christmas but deep down they know it is about the birth of Jesus and this is why they hate it.
With out Jesus, Christmas is just empty consumerism
The Christmas tree isn't even originally Christian. It is a Druidic tradition that predates Rome or Greece. Christ wasn't even born in the winter! King Herod was holding a Census, and demanded that people return to their city of birth to be counted. He would not order that while there was snow in drifts!
The Sacred Tree, green in the dead of winter, was holy to the druids who revered the cycle of death and birth, and saw the year as that cycle in miniture. The Evergreen (and more specific sacred trees) were a symbol of enduring life and the promise of rebirth in spring.
Druids put up Stone Henge and the other stone circles to calculate the cycles of the year. Druids used to decorate the sacred tree in guts (aka 'lights' as in "lights and humbles") of their sacrifices to ensure that the winter would end and spring would come again.
Christmas is actually the Winter Solstice festival, as coopted by the Church. The candles (now electric) to decorate the tree were introduced by the Romans, who took the tradition all over Europe as a sacrament to their fertility goddess. Only by rebranding the festival could the Church get Christ into the festivities.
Christmas (the Winter Solstice) is the mirror of Easter (the Spring Equinox) named (most recently) after the fertility goddess Ester. Fertility being symbolized by rabbits (famous for being fecund) and eggs for new life.
If these idiots want to hurt Christianity then return the festival to its roots. Invite a druidic circle or a bunch of pagans to do things old school. Like 3000 BC Old School. Guts and all.
Accurate and by design- it was easier to convert people if they could just turn existing solstices/holidays into Christian ones.
Most traditions grow from older ones. The origins don't matter as much as what it represents today.