The Origin of Religions
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Sometime ago, I was listening to a radio program about people celebrating the winter's solstice. One of the people interviewed on the program talked about the celebrations of Druids in ancient England. Druids attached religious significance to many things, among them the shortest day of the year, evergreen trees, and mistletoe. As part of the solstice celebrations, Druids were believed to have taken evergreens indoors. Part of the annual ritual involved decorating the trees. After the indoor rituals, the evergreens were taken outdoors and burned. It was pointed out that the solstice ritual still survives in a similar form today. These days the evergreens are called Christmas trees and are part of the rituals of a religion that displaced that of the Druids long ago.
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