• @Bananigans
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    the Christmas tree started as a winter solstice pagan holiday.

    I’d always heard that too, but Religion for breakfast put out a pretty interesting breakdown on why that may likely not be the case.

    The very recent origins of the Christmas treehttps://youtu.be/m41KXS-LWsY

    • @dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Honestly, given that they are using a narrow definition of specifically an evergreen being decorated I don’t agree. I’m not sure why we wouldn’t include other types of winter holiday trees or bushes like the ones decorated for Saturnalia. There’s also a lot of “probably” and supposition in this video.