هل أشجار عيد الميلاد وثنية؟ لا يوجد سجل يربطها بطقس وثني

No record ties the Christmas tree to a pagan rite. The earliest records come from German-speaking towns in the 1500s, and the first description of a decorated tree is from Strasbourg in 1605. Romans hung green branches at the New Year, and some historians think the tree grew from that “partly at least,” but no document shows it. The fir in the forest belongs to God, whoever else has used it. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof,”…