If it's a spruce tree adorned with 10,000 lights and 5,000 ornaments displayed on the Capitol grounds in December, it's a Christmas tree and that's what it should be called, says House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Hastert, R-Ill., has requested that the annual Capitol Holiday Tree, as it has been called the past several years, be renamed the Capitol Christmas Tree.
I agree. I'm tired of the secularists trying to wring every vestige of Christianity out of our culture. It's a Christmas tree!
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I just read in the history of the Christmas tree that the fir tree was picked for its triangular shape which evoked the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, Holy Spirit...and not the holiday trinity of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwaanza.
If we are going to call a Christmas tree a holiday tree, shouldn't we also call a menorah a holiday candlestick?
Oh, good grief... The only thing worse than the anti-Christmas movement is the Pagan community's claim to every holiday ever invented.
Merry Christmas!!
The Christmas tree is used to celebrate Christmas by placing Christmas gifts under the Christmas tree.
SPG: didn't the Pagans steal the idea from the "Old Ones" like Cthulhu and his indescribable brethren? What's a little borrowing between generations ;-)
its a danged christmas tree. not an xmas tree, not a holiday tree, not a winter celebration tree. the "bastages" go too far with the politically correct garbage. why is it that we must be tolerant of all religions except christianity? we have to respect all views and religions as relevant and meaningful, except our own. our own is crap, i guess.
Call it a damn christmas tree and let the "other people" be tolerant of us for a change.
I agree that this PC crap has to be stopped. It can only flourish if good people stand by & do nothing.
If the Pagans get Halloween, then I say the Christians get Christmas. And on that topic, just because pagans brought fir branches into their houses to ward off evil doesn't mean they had "Christmas trees" which didn't come about in their modern form until the 1500s.
So, light up the holiday candlestick or tree, exchange your seasons greetings gifts, and eat some all-organic tofurkey! The slightly more festive days of the year are here! Yahoo!
Though, that's not to offend the other days of the year, as they surely have their festive moments as well.
Except August. August is just an armpit.
Dak: if August is an armpit here in the USA, then what is August in France? Well, the only thing worse than an armpit is a legpit. Now there's an image :-P
Ha Legpit!
My hubby and I call it a knee-pit. Sweaty knee-pit.
I'm ok with calling it a Christmas Tree. But I still plan to say "Happy Holidays" as I don't know which holiday someone may or maynot celebrate!
It's also true about Christians stealing from the pagans and other religions. Most Christian holidays occur the same day as a pagan feast. You can also draw a parallel between pictures of God the Father and statues of Zeus.
tlm,
check out this site:
http://www.goodnewsaboutgod.com/studies/holidays2.htm
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