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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
I dunno' about that.
Now-a-day's a Christmas tree has a largely non-secular meeting.
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For some maybe, but the name of what we're talking about says it all - "Christmas tree". It's a purely Christian holiday, with some aspects of the holiday having been co-opted by other cultures. The ancient Romans would be proud.
My point is that enough of the meaning behind the icon still remains to make it a religious symbol to most. Symbols change meaning all the time - the swastika was a peace symbol for centuries before it was "borrowed" by the Nazi's. If you show a swastika to the same people that you show the Christmas tree to, the first reaction is going to be to a symbol of hate, not one of peace. There will be a few that recognize its past, but primarily people will associate it with Nazis and the Holocaust, which is certainly not what it originally meant.