[pct-l] Holiday Cheers....

[StoneDancer1 at aol.com (StoneDancer1@aol.com)]

In a message dated 12/16/2005 9:23:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
Bighummel@aol.com writes:
 
>>>>>Cutting a beautiful pine tree and bringing it home and  erecting it your 
living room and decorating it with all sorts of shiny  things and trinkets 
and junk 
. . . and watch it slowly die while we revel in  the celebration of life! >>>>
 
Did you know that the Christmas Tree was added to the   Christmas panoply in 
an attempt by the Church to include those nasty ancestors  of mine, the 
Germanic tribes?  Maybe by the Council of Nicea., held in 325  AD.. some scholar 
correct me....if anyone cares.
 
 
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge"  Bertrand Russel
"No Way Ray"  Echols