But yes, I’ll certainly give you that’s what it means to most people. But that’s not its origins.
You have yet to prove your source for your opinion. Prove to me where the origin of the word came from. Personally I believe it was a play on words about the sun rising in the East. I can't prove that, but there is at least as much evidence on that as your absurd claim that the Christians decided to name the holiday celebrating the rising of our Lord after some obscure Pagan goddess.
But, I won’t have a tree, tree worship is a very old form of worship; the “groves” are mentioned in the Bible many times.
Yeah, well I bet you have a tree in your yard. And guess what? God made it. Do you "worship" the tree in your yard? Neither do I. Nor do I worship the silly little Christmas tree with the colored lights that brightens up my house each December and reminds me that "for unto us A Child is born, unto us a Son is given."
I also listen to Christmas carols and have spent years perfecting many of them on my guitar. Do you have a problem with that too?
“I also listen to Christmas carols and have spent years perfecting many of them on my guitar. Do you have a problem with that too?”
There you go again, making it all about you.
Straw man manufacture is a weak form of argument.
I prefer to follow the Bible. I’m sorry if my mention of that enrages you in a personal sense, as it clearly does.
There are many of the beliefs of others that have enraged me, from time to time. But I made a decision that we have far more in common than we have differences, especially in the world we have today. So when they make statements FAR more inflammatory than mine above; attacks like “what cult do you belong to”, which is FAR more inflammatory than my discussion of what a WORD means, I’m used to it, I ignore the nasty phariseeical self-righteousness, because that’s what the world is like.