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To: Miss Marple
More importantly, if memory serves me, the Christmas Tree was a pagan symbol of the Winter Solstice that was hi-jacked by the early Church as a means of converting the pagans to Christianity!
144 posted on 12/10/2002 6:23:28 AM PST by Redleg Duke
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To: Redleg Duke
Oh, and by the way, before anyone jumps, the pagans didn't call it a "Christmas Tree"!
146 posted on 12/10/2002 6:24:30 AM PST by Redleg Duke
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