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Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
William R. Ward (hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU)
25 Aug 1995 00:09:07 GMT
In article <41ivi8$agl@lucas.emi.com>, phaedrus@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN () writes:
) randy (rburbach@inch.com) wrote:
) : In article <41g22o$ao2@hermes.cair.du.edu>, ruhl@phoebe.cair.du.edu
) : (Robert A. Uhl) wrote:
) : > Chriastmas trees were invented by Martin Luther. They caught on with
) : > the people, and the Chruch finally decided to stop trying to stop it.
) : > Easter eggs also were at one time put down by the Church.
) : >
) : christmas trees were not invented by luther, that is a lutheran myth
) : they had been used for years previously, although i can't vouch for their
) : pagan origins, it certainly evokes the pagan "world tree"
) Yet this doesn't work, since the >Churches< don't use the tree. The standard
) Catholic and Orthodox CHURCH practices don't involve Christmas trees, but
) they might use other, non-pagan symbolism like the Star of Bethlehem,
) the nativity scene, etc.
Lutheran churches do, or at least the one I grew up with did....
--Bill.
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