Socialist Carol of the Week: The Cherry Tree Carol
Created | Updated Dec 6, 2015
For over a thousand years, the peoples of Europe1 had only one religion: official Christianity. Their beliefs and practices, even their calendar, were decided by authorities who arranged the stories to benefit the ruling classes. But a few times a year, at Christmas and just before Lent, and maybe around May Day, the unwashed masses put in their oar.
Christmas carols tell us what they felt.
Guess what? They were more interested in the fact that the Creator of Heaven showed up in a barn, and didn't belong to the One Percent, than in all the fancy theology of St Thomas Aquinas.
Carollers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your mall privileges.
Socialist Carol of the Week: The Cherry Tree Carol
1Except for the Lithuanians, who were diehard Pagans.
