That’s the truth. The US Congress is going anti-politically correct this Christmas.
The 80-foot Engelmann spruce tree on the US Congress lawn this holy season is known worldwide as the “Capitol Christmas Tree” and not as previously named a “Holiday Tree,” according to House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert as reported by The Washington Times’ Gary Emerling.So there.
When the Christmas Tree lights were switched on, it was ablaze with lights for Jesus’ Time. That’s the only reasonable way to go. After all, if there were no Jesus born in Bethlehem there would be no so-called holiday tree. There would be no gift giving. There would be no carols. There would be no time off from work. There would be no special worship services in churches. There would be no red and green decorations strung from thither to yon.
It all dates back to 2000 years ago when a Babe was placed in a stall’s manger, Mary and Joseph kneeling nearby. Shepherds then joined them. Later, in a house, magi showed up to worship Him. He was called “Emmanuel,” which means “GOD with us.”
This secularizing of America has got to stop. The Judeo-Christian tradition is American. Let those of other religions courteously acclimate. The US leaders are taking the lead this Christmas in the name of J. Dennis Hastert when he informed the press of the name change from “holiday” to “Christmas.”
"The Capitol’s senior landscape architect confirmed the name switch yesterday for The Washington Times. ’It was known as the Holiday Tree for several years and just recently was changed back to the Capitol Christmas Tree. This was a directive from the speaker,’ said Capitol architect Matthew Evans
The ignorance the above quoted blogger displays is appalling. One could hope he had a better sense of what the Bible has to say on the subject.
The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in ancient Rome and Egypt.
In Egypt that tree was the palm tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm tree denoting the god as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith.
The mother of Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to have been changed into a TREE, and when in that state to have brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognized as the 'Man the branch.' And this entirely accounts for putting the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas-eve, and the appearance of the Christmas tree the next morning.
What about the Christmas tree used in Rome? The fir tree, so commonly used among Germans, Europeans, and Americans, today? What is its significance?
The Christmas tree, as has been stated, was generally at Rome a different tree, even the fir; but the very same idea as was implied in the palm-tree was implied in the Christmas fir; for that covertly symbolized the new-born God as BAAL-BERITH, 'Lord of the Covenant,' and thus shadowed forth the perpetuity and everlasting nature of his power, now that after having fallen before his enemies, he has risen triumphant over them all. Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at Rome as the day when the victorious god appeared on earth, was held as the Natalis invicti solis, 'The birth-day of the Unconquerable Sun.' Now the Yule Log is the dead stock of Nimrod, deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his enemies; the Christ- mas tree is Nimrod redivivus -- the slain god come to life again".
There can be no doubt whatsoever that the Christmas tree is also utterly pagan in origin, and symbolizes a FALSE SAVIOR, a fraudulent Messiah, a Pagan imitation Redeemer -- Nimrod revivified as Gilgamesh or Tammuz!
It should be absolutely clear that Christmas is a pagan celebration, pagan to the core, and in every respect has pagan connotations, significances, and hidden meanings. Christmas celebration is one more example of what historian Will Durant meant when he wrote:
"Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it" (The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, vol.3, p.595).
Should true followers of the Messiah celebrate Christmas? It is all right to take pagan customs, put them in a blender, combine them with the truth, whiz them up, and swallow the concoction thus created? What does the Word of God say in answer to this question?
Jeremiah the prophet wrote about 600 B.C., saying, "Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not" (Jer.10:1-5).
Doesn't this sound just like the pagan Christmas tree? Notice! This is what pagans do EVERY YEAR, in connection with the winter solstice -- the "signs of the heavens." A small evergreen tree is cut down out of a forest, has a base nailed to it so it will stand upright, is taken to the person's home, and then decorated with ornaments of every kind. In ancient Egypt, it was the palm tree, as we read in verse 5: "They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not; they must needs be borne, because they cannot go" (Jer.10:5).
But in Rome the tree commonly used was the fir tree. This custom is well nigh UNIVERSAL today, in the guise of "Christianity"! But its origin is clearly not!
The question now arises: How did all of these customs find their way into contemporary Christianity, ranging from Catholicism to Protestantism to fundamentalist churches?
The word "Christmas"itself reveals who married paganism to Christianity.
The word "Christmas" is a combination of the words "Christ" and "Mass.
The word "Mass" means death and was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome.
The ritual of the Mass involves the death of Christ, and the distribution of the "Host", a word taken from the Latin word "hostiall" meaning victim!
In short, Christmas is strictly a Roman Catholic word.
Maybe they need a copy of the 10 Commandments in the Capitol to remind them about idolatry.
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