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PAGAN APPROPRIATION!
Christians Everywhere Are Blissfully Unaware Their Christmas Trees Are Totally Pagan
Christmas stole many pagan traditions including decorated trees, holly, caroling, wreaths, mistletoe, and gift-giving.
Local Evangelical Christopher Bradshaw is now a three-time winner of his neighborhood’s annual Christmas Tree Competition for Best-In-Show, and he spent the morning looking at his Christmas tree making some last-minute ornament rearrangements to improve the tree’s glow.
“I just love Christmas, and the reminder that Baby Jesus came to the world on this day to free mankind from the torment of Hell,” Bradshaw explained. “And there’s no part I love more than having a big Christmas tree lighting up my living room. My family growing up only kept a small tree, and I promised myself that, when I had my own place and my own family, I would have the best, most beautiful Christmas tree in the whole town, and that’s a promise I have kept.”
On the mantle above the Bradshaw family’s fireplace was a display of the three Christmas tree trophies the family had won.
“I just love how Christian this tradition is, and how it’s totally reverent to God, the Virgin Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise…
