The first trashed Christmas Pagan Tree of the season, a week before Christmas
Readers who have followed my blog over a year know that for the past few years I’ve taken pictures of the trees people throw out on the street.
Since history shows that the tradition that Americans associate with Christmas came from paganism, and I’m concerned people who complain about “wars” on Christmas or Christians, I call them Christmas Pagan trees. That way if someone quotes me about how we can change this tradition without attacking Christians’ faith, they can see I’m not waging war on Christianity, but on something borrowed from paganism. To clarify, I have no problem with paganism either.
I do have a problem with people cutting down trees for reasons even they don’t believe in. Everyone knows we have environmental problems. More trees would help. Even if you consider them farming trees and that they’ll plant more, they could all that land to rewild.
Still, even granting people who pay for cutting down trees, they don’t even value them. As evidence, I offer the first one I saw this year being thrown out. Christmas is a week away so they didn’t even buy the tree for Christmas.
People don’t spend money to fund an industry that cuts down trees just to be thrown out a few days later. This tradition doesn’t represent what you think it does. It’s made up. You can love and honor Jesus’s birth any number of other ways.
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