2000 year old tree hacked down

Whilst the motives for the act are probably pretty awful it's no worse realistically then all the other trees in the countryside that get cut down.

Also it's probably worth noting that the tree is about 50 years old, not 2000!
 
Thousands of people get raped, burgled, molested, mugged, killed and maimed everyday.

But a TREE gets cut down! Trust the press to make it about religion. Is nothing not sacred any more?
 
I'd guess someone wanted to pee off some religious people.
All this commotion over a tree, poor tree yeah but meh, it has nothing to do with Christianity ffs... Hopefully it went to good use like for furniture or firewood.
 
not bothered about the religious aspects of this, but pretty ****ty cutting such an old tree..historic things are a rarity in the modern world especially something like this. and destroying it for pointless gains is pretty fail.
 
For all I care it's just a tree, even if it was planted by him, doesn't make it a special tree or anything.

I'd say the fact it's lived 2000 years made it pretty damn special. And the fact it might have added importance to some people makes it more so. Are you not humbled that your whole life and efforts are but a mere flash in the life of such a living thing?

Hrrrooom!
 
At least now they can count the rings and find out for sure that it's not 2000 years old. They're going to be upset when it's found to be only a couple of hundred. And from wikipedia;

The original Glastonbury Thorn itself was cut down and burned as a relic of superstition by Cromwellian troops (or 'Roundheads' by another source) during the English Civil War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey#Glastonbury_Thorn
 
It isn't the original tree anyway, just grown from a cutting of it.

Reminds me of the 'burning bush' at St Catherine's Monestary on Sinai. Regardless of whether you believe that it's Moses' actual bush, it's demonstrably over 1600 years old, which is impressive for a bush in the desert. The church in the monestary wanted to extend onto the Holy ground so they moved the bush! Fortunately it survived.
 
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