People kill evergreen trees in order to celebrate the birth of jesus... does that strike you as odd?
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When you put it that way, yes.
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Well the Church wanted the Pagans to turn Christian so they tried to innertwine Yule And Christmas(the birth) they ended up starting the Christmas tree and gift giving.
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Not really, it stikes me as Pagan. :-)
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i suppose, but people in general strike me as odd.
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not really... you have to plant two new trees for every one tree you cut down so SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT - DON'T GET AN ARTIFICIAL TREE.
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wondering howe that got started... and wher e did the concept of santa come from?
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Well, for the most part the trees come from tree farms so it is good for the economy. They use evergreen b/c the tips always poitn up to heaven.
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Not as odd as the celebration of Thanksgiving. Which, to me, is a celebration of the slaughter of Native Americans and the theft of their land.
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People killing anything I strike as normal.
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that was a german tradition---saint nicolas I believe is a german tradition---ooh tannenbaum ooh tannenbaum...
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Better get them before they get me, is my thinking.
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The tree thing is really a pagan ritual, celebrating the life that withstands the winter. It was imported from Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. The Norse variants of paganism had a lot to say about trees.
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