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• RainBlast@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Where did Christians get the decorating of a tree?

  Jeremiah 10:1-5 explicitly condemns it.

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You seriously misread that if you think it’s about Christmas trees in anything but maybe an abstract way. It’s about wooden idols. Who tf is chiseling their Christmas trees into shapes? I thought maybe this would be about Asherah poles or something at least kind of similar but this is a pretty obvious passage about idolatry.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’d make a good American Evangelical by the way you take the Bible out of context.

    Christmas trees started as a German tradition where trees were decorated in September with Eucharist Hosts to represent the Tree of Life in Eden, for celebrating Creationtide. As time went on and the tradition travelled, it eventually was used for Christmas.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do you honestly think Jesus was born on December 25? And that Santa and all his elves were there?

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjxGvyPAY5A

    The truth is, Xmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia…

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    • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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      Glorious username

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dunno how the date Christmas is celebrated is relevant, or the character surrounding St Nicholas

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    • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Jesus was actually born in the summer time. people.howstuffworks.com/when-was-jesus-born.htm

      Christmas is a pagan holiday to celebrate the winter solstice. Traditional puritans banned Christmas in the 1500. Right around the time they were burning witches

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The winter solstice is on the 21st of December, not the 25th. The dating of Christmas has nothing to do with it.

        Christmas is the date it is because it is 9 months (human gestation period) after the Feast of the Annunciation (25th of March) which gets it’s date from an old attributed date of Jesus’ death.

        In fact, the reason the UK tax date is in March is for the same reason - the new year was the Annunciation. Then 12 days difference due to the Julian/Gregorian shift.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Okay, so how about the elves? The reindeer? The holly and mistletoe? The tree?

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not related to the Christian holiday of Christmas, they’re secular

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