I'm not casual about it - but I'm not rigid either. If a little girl sees her daffodils, once "dead", rising up again in life, and it helps her understand that our death is temporary thanks to Jesus Christ, I'm okay with that. We give her daffodils every year at Easter...she plants them in the garden, where they "die" and then rise up again the following spring. They come wrapped in Easter tissue, and are given at a particular time each year...and they inspire awe at creation and life and resurrection.
If a Christmas tree inspires warm feelings, and the glow of light brightens a dark winter, and brings peace to a heart, can't that breed charity and prayerfulness? How is that bad? It's the meaning in the heart, not the thing itself, that is important.
Moroni 7:13
But behold, that which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do good continually; wherefore, every thing which inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve him, is inspired of God.
I don't see how these symbols are different from the images of Christ and His temples that we are encouraged to have in our homes as reminders. I don't worship the painting of Christ, nor do I worship the edifice of the temple. These things are symbols that remind me of holier things.
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