While I certainly feel the rage, the tree is yet another decoration the Christians copped from the pagans they sought to drown out. It’s yule, not what Jesus put in his home for his birthday (not that he was actually born in the winter anyway, they rewrote that too). Eggs and bunnies are pagan fertility things, not what phasewalker Jesus handed out from the tomb.
While I know it’s clearly a Christian symbol now, you can’t change what makes you nostalgic.
Anyway, I don’t know about everyone else, but it was only this summer I learned that “pagan” just means ANY religion that isn’t Christian. I assume it’s more the various Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo sects in the European Christian range.
While I certainly feel the rage, the tree is yet another decoration the Christians copped from the pagans they sought to drown out. It’s yule, not what Jesus put in his home for his birthday (not that he was actually born in the winter anyway, they rewrote that too). Eggs and bunnies are pagan fertility things, not what phasewalker Jesus handed out from the tomb.
While I know it’s clearly a Christian symbol now, you can’t change what makes you nostalgic.
Anyway, I don’t know about everyone else, but it was only this summer I learned that “pagan” just means ANY religion that isn’t Christian. I assume it’s more the various Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo sects in the European Christian range.