neptune@dmv.social to Star Wars Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoMe, explaining Easter to my wife, who grew up amongst the heathensdmv.socialimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down11
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minus-squareGraymouzer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoChristmas trees predate Christmas.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoOkay? That doesn’t make it less uncomfortable for me since I didn’t have them for the first two decades of my life and they’re a Christian thing now. Lots of things that Christians have adopted predate their religion. Like the entire Old Testament.
minus-squareSweetpeaches69@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoI don’t know if I would say Christmas trees are necessarily Christian. Myself and all of my friends have Christmas trees up, and half of us grew up in non-religious households.
Christmas trees predate Christmas.
Okay? That doesn’t make it less uncomfortable for me since I didn’t have them for the first two decades of my life and they’re a Christian thing now.
Lots of things that Christians have adopted predate their religion. Like the entire Old Testament.
I don’t know if I would say Christmas trees are necessarily Christian. Myself and all of my friends have Christmas trees up, and half of us grew up in non-religious households.