Learning to Recognise False Christmas Symbolism
I've been seeing this image float around Facebook lately: While the image above is trying to encourage people this Christmas season, I believe it is going about it the wrong way. Unfortunately, a good deal of the above information is false. Cute, but false. This is the kind of message that you will be finding everywhere this time of year. It doesn't help that our churches, friends, and favorite Christian stars ( *cough cough* ) are also spreading these little stories in a desperate effort to make Christmas look good. Sorry, guys, you're actually making it look worse. When you make up stories about Christmas to make it look Christian, it really doesn't help your argument. So, where did these traditions come from? Christmas trees started around the 8th century because of Saint Boniface. In the village of Geismar, the people worshiped Norse gods. They considered the oak tree sacred and called it the "Thunder Oak". It was forbidden to cut down, becau