Posted on 12/06/2012 1:31:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
“He’s either a liar or an idiot.”
He is, without question, a liar.
and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we have seen His Glory, the Glory of the One and Only, Who came from the Father, full of Grace and Truth...John 1:14
Dhimmi-crat moonbattery on display...
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable
rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
You nauseate me, Governor Grinch.
With a nauseaus super-naus.
You're a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse.
Governor Grinch.
You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce.
‘Did he just crawl out from under a rock? It’s always been called a Christmas tree. In fact, he probably remembers it being called a Christmas tree when he was a kid. He’s either a liar or an idiot.’
How about both.
A “Christmas” tree is a Nordic pagan tradition.
Get the “Christ” out of Yuletide.
Next up, renaming the Movie “A Christmas Story”, “A Holiday Story”.
Ralphie might have to go after the Governor with his Red Ryder.
In Germany the Christmas tree's ancestor wasn't the pagan evergreen or oak or holly but rather, a "Paradise Tree," which was a prop used on an otherwise bare stage in a Paradise Play about the fall of Man popular in the Middle Ages, one of many popular plays.
In the play there was just a commmon fir tree with apples attached to it, about as exotic as you could get in Germany if you were trying to replicate the Garden of Eden and in no way intended to represent pagan ideas about anything, it was just a prop. The person who played Eve would at one point in the play pluck an apple from it.
The popular plays became more about rowdiness than religion and the Church eventually banned them, so people started doing mini-plays at home. On Christmas Eve they would make their own Paradise play. Then the play was dropped and people just put up a tree. Back in Germany they would have used apples, in keeping with the play about the fall of Man in the garden of Eden. In Lutheran churches here in the US you will sometimes see two trees. One is the Tree of Death and it is decorated with red ornaments, one for each year of Christ's life. The red ornaments represent sin. The other tree is the Tree of Life and is decorated with the same number of white ornaments. In Germany these could be white roses, for the Rose of Sharon, or little cookies or wafers to represent communion wafers. Tree trimmings are used to make an advent wreath, with candles added.
Though the use of a single Christ Candle on Christmas Eve was there early on, the tree tradition and candle tradition were separate. There was a third practice in Germany to make a tiered stand that had lots of little candles on it on which sweets and small toys were placed, but at first the trees weren't lit. The idea of lighting candles on a tree came much later and no one is sure who came up with it but it appears to be a combination of the three traditions all on one tree.
After Christmas the Lutherans strip the branches from the tree in preparation for Easter, cutting the trunk or trunks to form a cross. The cross with reappear on Easter embellished with white lillies.
amen!
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