[pct-l] Holiday Cheers....

[Tortoise73 at charter.net (Tortoise)]

don't know much about the history of the "christmas" tree except that it 
was part of the Germanic pagan celebration of the winter solstice. Like 
many other such customs, the catholic church couldn't supress it or the 
pagan celebration so the church adopted / adapted them to have a 
christian meaning.

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Tortoise

I switched to Mac OSX rather than fight Windows
Using Mozilla Thunderbird  http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

StoneDancer1@aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 12/16/2005 9:23:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> Bighummel@aol.com writes:
>  
> 
>>>>>>Cutting a beautiful pine tree and bringing it home and  erecting it your 
> 
> living room and decorating it with all sorts of shiny  things and trinkets 
> and junk 
> . . . and watch it slowly die while we revel in  the celebration of life! >>>>
>  
> Did you know that the Christmas Tree was added to the   Christmas panoply in 
> an attempt by the Church to include those nasty ancestors  of mine, the 
> Germanic tribes?  Maybe by the Council of Nicea., held in 325  AD.. some scholar 
> correct me....if anyone cares.
>  
>  
> "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge"  Bertrand Russel
> "No Way Ray"  Echols
> 
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