Is everything controversial now?
This is the least interesting thing I’ve read in a long time.
Modern LED lights are not much of a fire hazard.
If you don’t have a real dead tree leaking sap on your living room floor, you’re not a real Christian.
Using LED lights would have been way, way, cheaper than buying a big artificial tree.
It's so Greta won't go on Youtube and say, "how dare you".
Celebrate Christmas properly:
KILL A TREE!...................
It has simply made money sense to me, for many years now, to have invested in a very very good quality artificial tree, than the expense of buying a real tree every year, simply to discard it after cursing the mess it made on the floor as well as the mess discarding it.
Let’s not forget the Christmas tree IN THE HOUSE, according to legend, was a custom started by protestants in Germany, spread in Germany and taken to England by King George, where the custom became common, and from there spread around the world by the people of the British Empire. Before that, holiday trees were usually only decorated trees that stood outside, and if it was a tree cut for the occasion it was usually burnt where it stood sometime as part of the seasonal events.
The importance of any thing is not its origins but the symbolic importance you give it. And, it is only symbolic, it has no special meaning on its own. Therefor a Christmas tree is neither intrinsically good or bad. It’s up to you what it symbolizes and why.
Honestly if the fake tree looks nice and costs less money, then so what?
Not like millions of people dont use them.
I don’t see the problem. Fake trees usually don’t come equipped with bird nests, spiders, insects, sap, and loose needles like real trees do. Plus, they may cost more than a real tree on an individual basis, but the fact they can be used for several years makes them more cost effective in the long run.
Surprised the atheists aren’t complaining about the tree and associated traditions.
Real Christmas trees are dying out simply because of the mess they cause.