If you’re going to have a Christmas tree, then call it a Christmas tree. Don’t pussyfoot around it and call it a “Holiday Tree” or a “Yuletide Tree” or a “Pan-denominational, Inoffensive Special Day Symbol.” That’s silly.
I’m Jewish. My wife Aggie isn’t. This year, she wants a Christmas tree, so I figured, why not: I don’t have to pray to the thing; it’ll be the first Christmas tree I’ve ever had anything to do with. A co-worker recently told me that when he was a kid, some of his Jewish friends had “Chanukah bushes.” That’s not only stupid, but offensive. Don’t put up a Christmas tree and call it a Chanukah bush. At least have the sack to call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree.
If we were going to be really cool, we’d also go all druid, all the time and burn people alive in wicker cages near the Christmas tree. But we ain’t.
Merry Christmas.
I’ll bet those druids did NOT burn people alive near their Christmas trees. Considering many of the druids lived in wooden houses, they most likely burned those people alive in some forest clearing, well away from the houses.
Actually, we lived in caves and stone dwellings, and had the wicker cage-burnings RIGHT IN OUR BACK YARDS next to the Christmas trees, thankyouverymuch.
Then we’d swab our wingwangs with honey and find the nearest anthill to hump. Honest Injun, it really happened.
Are you going to call it a Holiday Rabbit during Easter?
I have no problem with Jewish, Muslim or other religions displaying their holiday symbols at various times around the country as long as the other religions don’t mind us Christians going overboard on holiday decorations once or twice a year.
Some people have got it into their heads that tolerance about religion means displaying no religion whatsoever in public places. The only way we as a country are going to be tolerant of different religions and cultures is by being exposed to them.