2007-06-25 05:34:58 · 17 answers · asked by Mike C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think so. I think it's from the Yule time Winter Solstice celebration. But they sure are harmless and festive to me.
2007-06-25 05:39:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I certainly hope not. Anyway, of late, just about everything we once took as ordinary has been pigeon-holed under some religious heading.
A holiday wreath, to me, is simply lovely to hang and I make them. I really don't plan on stopping.
2007-06-25 05:44:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the wreath itself has few specific symbolic connections to Christianity, so no. However, it is derived from traditional Yule decorations, so, in the proper context, I might consider it to be an expression of Pagan beliefs; in that case I'd say yes.
2007-06-25 05:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by stmichaeldet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is pagan, so yes
The Encyclopedia Britannica, under “Celastrales,” exposes the origin of the holly wreath: “European pagans brought holly sprays into their homes, offering them to the fairy people of the forests as refuge from the harsh winter weather. During the Saturnalia, the Roman winter festival, branches of holly were exchanged as tokens of friendship. The earliest Roman Christians apparently used holly as a decoration at the Christmas season.”
There are dozens of different types of holly. Virtually all of them come in male and female varieties—such as “Blue Prince and Blue Princess” or “Blue Boy and Blue Girl” Female holly plants cannot have berries unless a nearby male plant pollinates them. It is easy to see why the holly wreath found its way into pagan rituals as a token of friendship and fertility.
2007-06-25 05:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by Noble Angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hanging of wreaths and the trimming of (Christmas) trees is a Pagaen ritual and displeasing to God. Check your Bible.
2007-06-25 05:43:28 · answer #5 · answered by whitney g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since Christmas is not a scriptural holiday, the holiday wreath is unscriptural as well.
2007-06-25 05:38:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they are able to be, yet do no longer *have* to be -- and this is of any faith (or no faith) based upon the way you beautify it. Many Pagans make wreaths of greenery for the yule season and that i know human beings of different faiths who like them as properly. In my opionion, it may basically be irrelevant in case you adorned it quite Christmas-finding (infant Jesus, etc) while you're doubtful, why no longer ask them in the event that they could like one?
2016-10-03 02:44:22 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My belief is that you can make anything religious. It depends on how the item in question is decorated and/or is used.
Have a lovely rest of the day.
2007-06-25 05:41:13 · answer #8 · answered by Goblin g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're a pagan and appreciate the euroboric and herbal symbolism it contains
Noble Angel quite rules, does she not?
2007-06-25 05:45:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. I am sorry, but I do not celebrate pagan holidays.
2007-06-25 05:41:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋