Dare ya’!
One by one our American Christmas traditions have been falling into place – and right on schedule. Last week, the White House tree was delivered, then cyber-Thanksgiving went off with its now world-famous vulgar celebration of mindless consumerism, and tonight is the lighting of the Rock Center Tree. One thing has been missing though – until now. Fox News has finally launched its traditional War on the War on Christmas. Sleigh bells ring.
I love these guys.
"You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.” - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
No American Christmas is complete unless someone wages war on it.
Ms. Holland ,
You will be happy to know that in Rhode Island the Christmas Tree is the Holiday Tree .
Well Alan, I’m pretty neutral on that; here in my house and in my cozy family-centric life, albeit ‘atheist’ (gasp!!!), I call it a Christmas tree.
What ya expect, youre American afterall……Glory be to god and peace and goodwill to all of the earth’s inhabitants, especially the one’s at Macy’s.
Yup, tis the American way T4T!
Well, I’m one those classed as Pagan, though I hate the term due to baggage that’s been attached to it by Pagans themselves, and I think people can keep their Christmas trees.
I find it humorous how Christianity kept the trappings of our traditions alive through the very same centuries in which they were trying to eradicate us.
..And no, I have no real problem with that attempted eradication either. It’s a natural course of events and, had the tables been turned, we’d have done the same thing to them.
Well, we’re on the same page there jonolan. I called myself ‘atheist’ above – but of course the label is kind of useless as it suggests a beleif that there is no god, which is as irrational as believing that there is a god.
I’m agnostic I guess, but maybe also a pantheist?