[CS-FSLUG] Just thinking...
Ed Hurst
ehurst at asisaid.com
Mon Nov 8 05:33:13 CST 2004
On Monday 08 November 2004 07:37, Don Parris wrote:
> I have sought for seven years to eliminate some of the pagan elements
> of Christmas, but have yet to convince my wife to share in my
> adventure in this way. I don't mind the lights, but I seek to
> replace the Christmas tree with the manger scene.
I have the luxury of wife who agrees. While my kids are adults, they
tend to agree as well. The use of tree comes to our modern Western
culture from one major pagan source, the pan-Germanic Yule Log. Some
say it may be connected to the Canaanite Asherah worship, which
included decorating trees, etc.
The first is at least 1000 years in the past, and our modern use of the
Christmas tree is hard to connect to those roots. Still, I am more
comfortable without it. Lights and manger scenes are another matter, as
they stem directly from the Christmas Story. I tend to be a little
confrontational about cultural issues, but that's my calling.
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Ed Hurst
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