Christmas Or Holiday Tree?

[musicman]

I laugh at this but a lady on the news this morning evidently doesn't. She's filing a lawsuit against her town because they call it a Christmas tree.

[KatieDidIt]

When people start calling it a Holiday Menorah or the Feast of the Holiday, I'll start calling it a Holiday Tree.

Edited December 13, 2007 by KatieDidIt

[KimberlySayWhat]

A winter tree.

Just kidding. Christmas tree of course. No question.

[nativehou]

I don't know. Does it have Pagan origins?

[ricco67]

Actually, it does have pagan origins and it was eventually adopted as a Christian form of decoration which didn't really catch on until the Mid 1800's. So if you REALLY want to get technical about it, you COULD call it a Pagan tree. I prefer Christmas tree.

Some people just need to lighten up, if this continues we'll also lose The Jewish Holiday, Box Day, and that ever popular Kwanzaa.

The Jehovah witnesses will no longer have to apologize for not having to recognize Christmas.

[RedScare]

I call it a fire hazard.

[MidtownCoog]

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,

wie treu sind deine Bl

[Vertigo58]

Rats!

[crunchtastic]

I call it a fire hazard.

OK, I just laughed out loud. Loudly.

[Serrano]

i can't believe this ! whats next??? are they going to cover churches with a big tarp or take the cross off because the shadow lays over somebodies house whose not into religion. this world is going crazy.

[Gary]

i can't believe this ! whats next??? are they going to cover churches with a big tarp or take the cross off because the shadow lays over somebodies house whose not into religion. this world is going crazy.

In short, yes we have lost our minds. It's freaking unbelievable that our country has come to this.

Edited December 13, 2007 by Gary

[KimberlySayWhat]

MidtownCoog:

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,

wie treu sind deine Bl

[RedScare]

It seems no one has looked at the German to English translation of tannenbaum.

[Fringe]

I call it a fire hazard.

LOL. That's great.

I'm not a religious person by any means but it will ALWAYS be a Christmas tree to me.

[west20th]

I call it a Christmas tree but it is hardly a religious symbol, say like a Nativity scene. I mean, I don't think of religion when I look at wonderment at my silver fibre optic tree.

Edited December 13, 2007 by west20th

[RedScare]

LOL. That's great.

I'm not a religious person by any means but it will ALWAYS be a Christmas tree to me.

[Vertigo58]

when I look at wonderment at my silver fibre optic tree.

Those are so groovy!

[west20th]

Maybe if the song had been "O Weihnachten baum, O Weihnachten baum..."

How about.......O Silber Faser Optisch Baum, O Silber Faser Optisch Baum......Kind of catchy eh?

Edited December 13, 2007 by west20th

[west20th]

Those are so groovy!

Sure are. When I brought it home the husband hated it. "That's so Asian". Guess that is PC since he's of Asian descent.

[Jax]

I call it a Chanukah bush.

[TJones]

I have never heard the Xmas song........ " Oh Holiday Tree !"

How about..........." I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOUR EXISTANCE day tree. " for all the Aetheist ?

Edited December 13, 2007 by TJones

[Fringe]

Edited December 13, 2007 by LunaticFringe

[KimberlySayWhat]

Remember those talking Christmas trees with the big eyes they had a few years ago? Creepy.

[TJones]

Remember those talking Christmas trees with the big eyes they had a few years ago? Creepy.

They were very creepy, and they freaked my dog out. He wound up tearing it apart one night, THAT was funnier than the tree.

Now, this is the scarier version.

Edited December 13, 2007 by TJones

[west20th]

I have never heard the Xmas song........ " Oh Holiday Tree !"

How about..........." I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOUR EXISTANCE day tree. " for all the Aetheist ?

But the point is the Christmas tree isn't really a religious symbol. When they start calling Nativity scenes "holiday scenes" then you'll have something to complain about.

[west20th]

They were very creepy, and they freaked my dog out. He wound up tearing it apart one night, THAT was funnier than the tree.

Now, this is the scarier version.

Looks like one of those trees from the Wizard of Oz.

[west20th]

LOL. I bought one of those old aluminum trees off ebay several years ago that were popular in the 50's. My wife couldn't believe it. She calls it an "Alien Tree" and hangs these little green aliens on it and little spaceships. It is NOT our principle tree I should point out. Just one of many that the wife drags out every year.

I'm more of a Festivus guy.

[crunchtastic]

But the point is the Christmas tree isn't really a religious symbol. When they start calling Nativity scenes "holiday scenes" then you'll have something to complain about.

All the hubbub over Christmas, yet people don't get nearly so wacky over Easter. Why not? Isn't Easter the more important Christian holiday, in the bigger Jesus scheme of things? Isn't that the one that's mashed up beyond recognition with pagan symbolism? We're so conflicted, culturally, over the compulsion to shop in honor of the Baby Jesus, that we overcompensate with the Christmas/Holiday/PC thing. Easter--now that's the real travesty, folks!

[RedScare]

Hmm...the bigger travesty? A Trillion dollar shopping spree or eating chocolate eggs to celebrate a murder? Quite the conumdrum.

[TJones]

Hmm...the bigger travesty? A Trillion dollar shopping spree or eating chocolate eggs to celebrate a murder? Quite the conumdrum.

It's the resurrection we non-pagans celebrate you blasphemist jack-ass ! Go have another Cuba Libra, will ya !