Re: Christmas Tree, coming from Pagan tradition

[Guest guest]

Well someone wished me a 'happy winter solstice' today - I don't hear

that often :-)

> The

> > church moved the celebration to december in an attempt to

obliterate

> > the pagan holiday of Yule and make it easier for the Pagans to

> > convert to christianity (forceably or not).

>

>

> They failed, then - we still use the name Yuletide.

>

> I reckon everyone with any religious belief should reason that the

> winter solstice is part of creation and a cycle of life that is

natural

> to keep note of, hence must be entirely harmless to celebrate. When

we

> turn the corner of winter concerning day length. So we should be

happy

> using the name Yule, so we should use it instead of Crismus and

stop

> falsifying history concerning Jesus.

>

> It would be more neutral to celebrate on the actual solstice day,

21 or

> 22, nothing pagan about that, than the 25th which was pinched from

a

> Roman festival so is pagan and has good historical cause to upset

some.

>