Happy Solstice
backseatLover12
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Cheers to the shortest day of the year, from here on out the days get longer!
I posted this in A Moving Train because my in-laws yelled at me for having a few solstice books and they read one of them to my daughter while babysitting last week. Fox News has been reporting that solstice is an atheist holiday, and that the atheists have taken solstice as their own holiday as a way of "stealing Christmas from the Christians". So they had a field day yelling at me. Mind you, they are not practicing religious people. Haven't gone to Catholic church in many years except for funerals. Yet, because Fox News tells them that they can be angry about "atheists stealing Christmas", and that my family celebrate the earth's holiday of solstice twice a year, they feel justified. I had to explain to them what Paganism is and the Yule, and remind them that they are not religious. When I asked how come no other news stations are reporting this bullshit, they have no answer. They actually said, because Fox is fair and balanced. :roll:
Nice huh? Angry Fox News viewers are everywhere!
I posted this in A Moving Train because my in-laws yelled at me for having a few solstice books and they read one of them to my daughter while babysitting last week. Fox News has been reporting that solstice is an atheist holiday, and that the atheists have taken solstice as their own holiday as a way of "stealing Christmas from the Christians". So they had a field day yelling at me. Mind you, they are not practicing religious people. Haven't gone to Catholic church in many years except for funerals. Yet, because Fox News tells them that they can be angry about "atheists stealing Christmas", and that my family celebrate the earth's holiday of solstice twice a year, they feel justified. I had to explain to them what Paganism is and the Yule, and remind them that they are not religious. When I asked how come no other news stations are reporting this bullshit, they have no answer. They actually said, because Fox is fair and balanced. :roll:
Nice huh? Angry Fox News viewers are everywhere!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPS-J0HTg
Interesting how some people just can't stomach the idea of celebrating nature. Their loss.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Interesting stuff.
2. Christmas trees were forbidden as a part of the celebrations until as late as 1640. Since the tradition of bringing evergreen boughs or trees into the home at the Winter Solstice was pagan in origin, the early Church forbade them. The first recorded instance of a Christmas tree dates to 1510 when the town of Riga in Latvia brought a tree into the town square, decorated it and then burned it. Thankfully, we have relegated the burning part to the Yule log. Approximately 30-35 million Christmas trees are sold each year in the U.S.
I'm not big on religious holidays but I'm happy to say I bought- as I do every year- one of those trees myself. A live one! It will get planted this spring along with the others we've planted over the 10 years we've been here.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"