That’s simply a personal reading of history, discostu. The Jews were using evergreen in written history before the early central Europeans have a record of anything.
And celebrations at and around the solstices are much older than one religion or another.
So, ascribing it all to northern europeans is a bit of prejudicial judgment.
After all, the True God created the solstices in that He ordered the universe. Those other cultures all descended from the survivors of the flood, so their later practices were derived from an original authentic understanding and their deviations were deviations from the most ancient history.
I’m not ascribing it to all northern Europeans. I’m pointing out that it wasn’t part of Christianity until they started converting northern Europeans. This all stems from YOUR false statement in post 29:
The traditions are founded in Christianity and the Christmas story.
I’m pointing out that many of these traditions are NOT founded in Christianity and the Christmas story. There’s no pine trees in the Christmas story, and there were no pine trees in the Christmas celebration for centuries. So declaring the decorated trees are a tradition founded in Christianity and the Christmas story is, quite simply, a lie. And you yourself have presented evidence of that. You have proven your own statement false.