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To: GunRunner; Tamar1973

Christmas trees aren’t pagan - they are, in fact, an anti-pagan tradition.


79 posted on 10/30/2007 1:39:21 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
Christmas trees aren’t pagan - they are, in fact, an anti-pagan tradition.

Hmmm, don't think so. Trees as a sacred tradition pre-date Christian Europe. The book of Jeremiah mocks it as pagan:

Jeremiah 10:1-5

1Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

84 posted on 10/30/2007 1:52:26 PM PDT by GunRunner (Thompson 2008 - Security, Unity, Prosperity)
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