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Christmas Trees --- Actually kind of pagan!
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Rune responds to the youtube video The Very Recent Origins of the Christmas Tree by ReligionForBreakfast, found here: https://youtu.be/m41KXS-LWsY?si=DrUTxLERGoux0HVB. RfB's video draws extensively on a paper by Laszlow Lukacs.
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