Re: Hastert Plays Politics With Holidays
"what "Holiday" does a "Holiday Tree" celebrate?"
The Christans stole it from the Pegans anyway. We are really just celebrating the return on the sun after the darkest day of the year.
"Tree Decorating - There is some debate on the origin of this tradition. Druids (and some other ancient cultures) saw evergreen trees as symbols of everlasting life, because they seemed to live through the winter undaunted by the cold. So using evergreen branches as decorations symbolized the undying strength of the Sun. Decorating the trees may have come from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia."
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