I dont get it.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:40 am

Skyone wrote:I think most *religious* holidays are fooled around with. Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? Next we'll have Hanukkah Harry!

It's the Hanukkah Zombie.

Post by **Skyone** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:45 am

wallydawg wrote:
Skyone wrote:I think most *religious* holidays are fooled around with. Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? Next we'll have Hanukkah Harry!
It's the Hanukkah Zombie.

That's not insulting or anything.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:26 am

joevennix wrote:
Sparkfist wrote:Kind of like how does a pine tree fit in with Christas? It's from the Germans that was held over from Roman's (I believe).

Christians believe Jesus died on a cross, and use the tree as a symbol of the cross.

Yeah, but that's at Easter time not Christmas. The idea of a pine tree (or fer) that had candles on it was something completely different but it was pulled into Christmas tradition when that culture accepted Christiantiy.

If you want the whole tree thing, then you have to understand that the tree bacame the cross. On top of that it has to be Oak as that's what's believed the cross was made out of.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:38 am

joevennix wrote:Christians believe Jesus died on a cross, and use the tree as a symbol of the cross.

No one is sure about this, but it is very possible that they could of used the trunk of an olive tree and made cross beams. That is why the symbol, as you think (or say) is a tree.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:32 am

Well this is what Wiki Says:

The Christmas tree is often explained as a Christianization of the ancient pagan idea that the evergreen tree represents a celebration of the renewal of life.

The modern custom, however, although likely related, cannot be proven to be directly descended from pagan tradition. It can be traced to 16th century Germany; Ingeborg Weber-Keller (Marburg professor of European ethnology) identified as the earliest reference a Bremen guild chronicle of 1570 which reports how a small fir was decorated with apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers, and erected in the guild-house, for the benefit of the guild members' children, who collected the dainties on Christmas day.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:09 pm

Skyone wrote:
wallydawg wrote:
Skyone wrote:I think most *religious* holidays are fooled around with. Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? Next we'll have Hanukkah Harry!
It's the Hanukkah Zombie.
That's not insulting or anything.

It's a Futurama reference...

SavageLych · Post by **SavageLych** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:55 pm

OK the egg was a pegan symbole for fertility, wich they selebrated for in a huge festavle. They would alsop sacrafice rabbits, because they amke babies fast. As for chocolate, well it shuts the kids up for a few hours?