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'Vandals have hacked at the heart of Christianity'
Daily Mail ^ | Dec 9th, 2010

Posted on 12/09/2010 10:33:00 AM PST by TaraP

2,000-year-old Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury is cut down

Vandals have destroyed one of the most celebrated Christian pilgrimage sites in Britain and chopped down a tree said to have sprouted from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea 2,000 years ago.

The Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury, Somerset, is visited by thousands every year to pay homage and leave tokens of worship. Those visiting today were moved to tears on finding the tree cut to a stump.

The sacred tree is unique in that it blossoms twice a year - at Christmas and Easter - and sprigs taken from the thorn are sent to The Queen each year for the festive table.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: glastonbury; josephofarimathea
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1 posted on 12/09/2010 10:33:04 AM PST by TaraP
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The tree in all its glory before it was hacked apart. Legend says it sprang from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea, the man who helped Jesus of the cross. To the right of the tree, in the distance, is Glastonbury Tor
2 posted on 12/09/2010 10:33:56 AM PST by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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A member of the public gathers sprigs from the chopped branches while (right) onlookers cry and say prayers
3 posted on 12/09/2010 10:35:02 AM PST by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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moslems


4 posted on 12/09/2010 10:35:20 AM PST by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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Police tape surrounds the vandalised Holy Thorn tree on Wearyall Hill in Glastonbury as stunned locals look on. The branches were cut off overnight and a police investigation has been launched
5 posted on 12/09/2010 10:36:11 AM PST by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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A__holes


6 posted on 12/09/2010 10:36:37 AM PST by Wu (Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
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This is horrible.


7 posted on 12/09/2010 10:37:23 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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Amish...


8 posted on 12/09/2010 10:37:34 AM PST by MichaelP (It's the end of the world as they know it, and I'm so glad!)
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“said to have sprouted from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea 2,000 years ago. “

The Brits have some weird legends


9 posted on 12/09/2010 10:38:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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No...Muslims
10 posted on 12/09/2010 10:38:36 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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Looks like GB's muslims don't look upon the holy grail of diversity as kindly as do the natives.

My guess, of course.

Good thing we christians don't place much stock in icons.

11 posted on 12/09/2010 10:38:43 AM PST by skeeter
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'Some of the main trunk is there but the branches have been sawn away. I am absolutely lost for words - I just do not know why people would want to do this.

Because there are those in the world that hate Christianity so much that even a tree to them must be destroyed.

12 posted on 12/09/2010 10:38:43 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Christian legend dictates that Jesus’s great uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, came to Britain after the crucifixion 2,000 years ago bearing the Holy Grail - the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper.
He visited Glastonbury and thrust his staff into Wearyall Hill, just below the Tor, planting a seed for the original thorn tree.

Roundheads felled the tree during the English Civil War, when forces led by Oliver Cromwell (pictured) waged a vicious battle against the Crown.
However, locals salvaged the roots of the original tree, hiding it in secret locations around Glastonbury.

It was then replanted on the hill in 1951. Other cuttings were also grown and placed around the town - including its famous Glastonbury Abbey.

Experts had verified that the tree - known as the Crategus Monogyna Bi Flora - originated from the Middle East.

A sprig of holy thorns was taken from the Thorn tree by Glastonbury’s St Johns Church on Wednesday and sent to the Queen.

The 100-year-old tradition will see the thorns sit on Her Majesty’s dinner table on Christmas Day

YES WE ARE FIGHTING THE EVIL IN THE LAST DAYS...

EPHESIANS 6:12

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.


13 posted on 12/09/2010 10:38:47 AM PST by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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Could a tree surgeon do some emergency surgery to fix the tree?


14 posted on 12/09/2010 10:39:42 AM PST by GraceG
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It is a tree and hardly the heart of Christianity.


15 posted on 12/09/2010 10:39:58 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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You can only pity those so reprehensibly deprived of anything resembling human consciousness. Were the world depleted of their kind........


16 posted on 12/09/2010 10:40:41 AM PST by yoe
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It’s not Biblical. Don’t make an idol out of a tree.


17 posted on 12/09/2010 10:41:31 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Stimulus ~ Response / "...and that's why the color yellow makes me sad, I think.")
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That is just sick. And so very sad. A tree that has outlived so many generations is like a revered elder. To indiscriminately damage it like that just underscores some of the meanness and idiocy of our times. I hope they can fix the damage and get it to sprout new limbs. I don’t know anything of this tree or this kind of tree. I’m reminded of the Ents in LOTR, some of my favorite characters. So very sad.


18 posted on 12/09/2010 10:42:02 AM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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If this had been done to something that muslims held in esteem you can bet there would be untold investigations and arrests.


19 posted on 12/09/2010 10:42:02 AM PST by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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They must hurry and grow cuttings from the living branches, to make more trees, and to plan an entire grove of them.


20 posted on 12/09/2010 10:42:17 AM PST by Tax Government (Democrat: "I'm driving to Socialism at 95 mph." Republican: "Observe the speed limit.")
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