tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post3744234384748553117..comments2024-03-16T11:33:57.107-05:00Comments on Throne, Altar, Liberty: Christmas Customs and Hyper-Protestant KilljoysGerry T. Nealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12137796641408373451noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post-33569566132671107472022-01-02T19:31:49.412-06:002022-01-02T19:31:49.412-06:00Once again you call Protestant some Puritan trick,...Once again you call Protestant some Puritan trick, as if Anglo~Catholics had the answer and Via Media was real.Mr. Mcgranorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12851136550476241757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post-88920455432082538342021-12-23T09:28:49.544-06:002021-12-23T09:28:49.544-06:00Few Christmas traditions have unambiguously pagan ...Few Christmas traditions have unambiguously pagan antecedents. Mistletoe is one that does but I don't think I've seen mistletoe once in 47 years.<br /><br />Germanic paganism revered broadleaf trees like oak and yule not evergreens. The irminsul was an oak I believe. Christmas trees may have come from medieval depictions of the tree of knowledge if good and evil and early Christmas trees were decorated with fruit and wafers resembling the eucharist.Brucenoreply@blogger.com