Here is a video showing a bunch of trees people bought to celebrate the birth of their lord and savior, in a tradition unrelated to that birth, borrowed from paganism. Instead of celebrating birth, they are actual death. Apparently people believe we have too many trees and forests.

I love tradition. We don’t keep alive every tradition ever. People used to practice infanticide. Should we keep practicing it for tradition?

We can create new traditions or, for that matter, restore ones from before Christians borrowed pagan ones.

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They mulched all those trees before a second load formed. Here’s what it looked like between.

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Here’s a second load:

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Those trees were just the ones people took the time and effort to be mulched. Here are about a month of trees just dumped along with other garbage. Do these images show how to praise Jesus?

I don’t go out of my way to take these pictures. I see them as I pass and if I’m not in too much of a hurry, I take a quick picture to put in my annual series of posts illustrating this degrading practice.

I recommend looking at each picture and taking it in for what it says about America, Christianity, and our values.

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