In reply to U Barad.
You wrote “ you are intrigued by the thought that Christians do worship trees, as many other cultures do.” It certainly would sound interesting and intriguing to many non Christian domination how the tree has significance to Christianity. But you will not know the difference unless and until you know the difference between worship and respected or venerated a site.I visited Glastonbury in mid- April 2010. Surely if you visit Glastonbury as I have done and visited the 'Holy Torn Tree' the most Christian visiting this place stand in silence and very few one in a thousand tie a ribbon (but for the time I was there I didn’t see any one tie a ribbon) people visited like any historical site and showed respected by the visit. To clear with the concept “worship” laid in the minds like U Barad, there was no Incense sticks (Arggabrati) or flowers laid around in rituals or worship. No one removed slippers and walked there, no one chanted any prayers of worship or poured any milk at the tree. I do not criticize the worship but in plain English clarifying the word ‘worship’ used here by U Barad. I saw and noticed all Christian visited this place like any place, and saw most visited out of something called reverence or respect, which I think is normal and why not ? Every human being even a atheist if consider something or someone close, would show respect and reverence don’t they? It is natural, if it is of great importance to any human beings. To understand the difference in these two, we must understand such issues more with a liberal view than the eyes of Hinduism.