Airport sued for not having menorah?

[Memphis Slim]

Does a Christmas tree have anything to do with religion, really? I see no crucifix on the tree. Only lights and ornaments. It just looks festive. I don't know about you people, but I know people who are not Christians who celebrate Christmas because to them, it's a couple of days off from work and a time to spend with family and friends.

Do a little research and there's a lot about the symbols of the season many don't know.......

THE CHRISTMAS TREE

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There are some that believe that Christmas trees are idolatrous. But that is only out of not knowing better. They take Jeremiah 10:2-4 out of context. In the text, God condemns his people for going into the forest, cutting down the trees, and carving them up and over- laying them with gold or silver. They would then fasten them with nails so that they would not totter. Although his may sound like a Christmas tree, it is not. It is condemning the use of the wood for carved images that were worshipped. This was sort of a Wal-Mart idol for those that could not afford the “solid gold” idol. It was cheaper to just cover the wooded image with gold. Anyway, Jeremiah was written 500 years before Christ’s birth. So how could it be a “Christmas” tree? ​

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The fact of the matter is that they originated in Christian Germany about two thousand years after Jeremiah! It originated from two Christian symbols found in people’s homes at Christmas time. The first was a “Paradise Tree” an evergreen which was hung with apples which symbolized the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. The second was a “Christmas Pyramid”. This was a triangular shelf holding Christmas figurines and decorated with a star! By about the 16th century the two symbols were combined for the first Christmas tree!​

How ‘bout that? Tell your children about this Christian heritage! ​

 

[vibeke_T]

hey! i say put up a menorah!!! no ones going to die...geez

 

[Dope Nose]

correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the trees originally seen as a simple of rebirth by Germanic pagans for Yule, the winter solstice celebration? when Christian missionaries started converting the pagans they felt it would be more convenient to provide Christian re-interpretations of the major pagan holidays rather than try to suppress them, which included keeping symbols such as the Evergreen tree.

tell your kids about THAT Christian heritage.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Oh come on! It's freaking Christmas. Do PC *******s have to try and ruin everything or something. Are they trying to prove Bill O'Reilly right or something

 

[hippie_hunter]

Or something

 

[Dope Nose]

it was the Port of Seattle's decision.

"I'm brutally shocked and appalled by this decision," Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky said in an interview yesterday. "We were not interested in ruining people's holidays. … If I could have my wish today, I'd have them put everything back up."

 

[Memphis Slim]

correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the trees originally seen as a simple of rebirth by Germanic pagans for Yule, the winter solstice celebration? when Christian missionaries started converting the pagans they felt it would be more convenient to provide Christian re-interpretations of the major pagan holidays rather than try to suppress them, which included keeping symbols such as the Evergreen tree.

tell your kids about THAT Christian heritage.

Christianity has always had a mandate to missions work. What's wrong with that? It was obviously effective considering that hardly anyone knows who the pagan gods are anymore. But everyone knows Christ.
Oh well.......

 

[Dope Nose]

actually Germanic pagans held beliefs very similar to Norse mythology so I'd say quite a few people know who their gods were (i.e. Odin, Thor, etc.)

 

[Memphis Slim]

actually Germanic pagans held beliefs very similar to Norse mythology so I'd say quite a few people know who their gods were (i.e. Odin, Thor, etc.)

But no one thinks about Thor or Odin this time of the year......

well.......maybe Stan Lee. t:

 

[Assassin]

We're the kosher shiznit.

you killed Jesus and ruined Mel Gibson's Career