Lol, you are sooo taking that out of context! The reason the trees were evil is because they worshiped their creations! They were idols! But just because they worshiped a tree does not make trees evil. It was the act of worshiping that was evil. If we worshiped Christmas trees today, of course it would be sinful!
No, you're the one choosing to not see my point. You're taking a pagan symbol and engaging in pagan tradition by merely putting it in your house. It would be like putting an inverted pentagram on your wall and denying that it was sinful because you took a different meaning from it. In the end its all pagan traditions that you are engaging in.
Symbols are not the sinful part - it's the worshiping of those symbols that is the problem. So no, an inverted pentagram on my wall would not be sinful either, only if I worshipped it.
If you took part in a satanic ritual, but didn't believe in what you were doing, you'd still be sinning for taking part in a satanic ritual.
I don't know if I necessarily agree with that, but for now, I will agree. But, I'm not "acting" like I'm worshipping a Christmas tree. So what's your point?
I disagree.
The original meaning was of eternal life during the winter solstice for pagans. After Christianity hijacked the practice, they made up the meaning of trinity behind the tree.
You even taking part in a pagan practice is enough to sin.
The fact that something was previously practice as a "pagan" ritual (as you call it) doesn't mean it can't be adopted by some other form of religion and given as new meaning.Exactly. I'm sure everything someone could do has been used as a "pagan" practice by someone at sometime or another.I'm an atheist so that kind of blows your theory out of the water but never mind me.
A no sarcasm, Merry Christmas!
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