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Re: Woman arrested after damaging Satanic display at Florida Capitol
All of that stuff is in the Bible too.I disagree Countryboy. The yule log goes back to paganism. So does holly and mistletoe. Look up Christmas tree in the Encyclopedia Britannica and you will get a history lesson in the first paragraph about tree worship in ancient pagan customs.
The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life and was regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship.
Witches and other pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana. And if you have ever done a study on Diana of Ephesus, that is one "goddess" that hated little boys and favored girls. She sort of reminds me of the precursor of the feminism of males going on today.
Here's a picture of her, and you thought a cow had a lot of teats!
The holly wood was used by witches to make wands.
The white berries of mistletoe were believed by pagans to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god.
Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of pagan temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those who stood beneath and kissed, causing the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them.
These customs transcended the borders of Rome and Germany to the far reaches of the known world.
Do all these traditions mean the same thing today? No. But it can not be denied they have their origins in paganism. These practices were among the pagans in the days of stories of great men of faith in the OT. Even in the Psalms you will find God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob depicted as an evergreen tree most likely to debunk tree worshipers at the time.
I guess the message I am trying to relay is there are several traditions in a Christian celebration of Christmas that have pagan roots and are the traditions of men. The thing to remember is what is important is the condition of our heart which has nothing to do with traditions of men.