Dreams and religion

[averygoodun42]

Last night I dreamt Bradley Whitford was playing a Christmas-obsessed father who did not take kindly at all (in fact, he grew murderous over the interference) to my suggestion that Christmas should maybe be represented as the beginning of Spring, using live, flowering plants (and put into the earth to grow) rather than dying trees. 

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You all probably know that I am not of a particularly religious bent. Religion fascinates and infuriates me. I try to live by Christian mores (more or less) and I believe in a higher power (though I prefer the honorific of Universe rather than God), but I cringe at the thought of Jesus as my personal savior.

And then I go and have all these religious dreams.

I'm sure there are many ways of interpreting last night's dream, with a good percentage of them not being of a Christian bent, but what I woke up with was the thought that yes, Christ's birth was the springtime of our soul, and should be celebrated as such.


(Of course, I left out that I chose to plant yellow pansies as the flowering plants. Now, did he take the accepted symbolism of the pansy (remembrance) or the slur...) *cough*

Comments

[zalena.livejournal.com]

It might interest you to know that Xmas was originally celebrated in the Spring and there are many medieval lyrics to this effect. The church changed it to cohere with pagan holidays and to spread their influence throughout the year.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

I had heard that they'd figured Christ had actually been born in late April sometime, based on supernovae, erm, history... How accurate that is, I don't know (though the Chinese did keep pretty good records).

It really makes more sense symbolically for it to be a Springtime holiday rather than winter, though I do understand why the Church adapted their timetable. The Church used to be much more flexible than it is now. *shrug* Their loss.