Christmas Trees Are Not Pagan

Christianity relegated pagan belief to the cultural dustbin and tree customs were sporadic and divergent until after the reformation.

Christmas trees are not pagan. There have been a myriad of customs in different cultures using holly and evergreen but there is not a discernable evolution from paganism to today s christmas tree from the ancient world. Christmas is the day christians celebrate the birth of christ. They also oppose trees because of their literal interpretation of the quotation from jeremiah. Part of the opposition is caused by the pagan origin of christmas tree decoration.

Although the specific practices were different in each country and culture the symbolization was generally the same. Another frequent myth is that christmas was taken from sol invictus. This requires a rant because every year we see the same ignorant silliness. One is that constantine invented christmas from the roman holiday saturnalia the feast dedicated to the roman god saturn.

A subset of this opposition is the christmas tree. There is evidence of trees or at least evergreen boughs being associated with pagan worship. Christmas trees did begin as a pagan tradition as early as the fourth century c e according to abc news. A few fundamentalist christian groups continue to oppose christmas trees and even the celebration of christmas for their members.

Because of this religious metamorphosis christians should not celebrate christmas. European pagans were largely responsible for dressing their homes with the branches of. Many anti christians will claim that christmas was a pagan celebration there are several claims often used. No christmas is not pagan.

The star on the tree was used to remember the star followed by the wise men matthew 2 1 12. A common reason given by those wishing to force a tie in between pagan superstitions and christmas is that evergreen plants warded off sickness evil spirits and witches or that the sun god became weakest near the winter solstice and evergreen trees showed that he would soon be returning to strength and vigor 9 other cultures associated evergreen boughs with certain gods for the norse it was balder or as symbols of everlasting life 10 but the association of a tree with prosperity and long. To celebrate the return of life at the beginning of winter s decline. W ell it s time for a good christmas rant.

This includes the jehovah s witnesses and until recently the worldwide church of god. However the tradition of christmas trees began with protestant christians in germany in the 16th century. Sorry but it s just true supposedly christmas is secretly pagan secretly syncretist secretly a co opting of pagan stuff and ignorantly claiming it to be christian.