Get the HOLIDAY Out of my TREE

It is not new, news. Every year we hear stories about how clerks are encouraged to say 'Happy Holidays' instead of Merry Christmas. We now hear how political officials want to call the trees 'Holiday Trees' instead of Christmas Trees.

I personally take NO offense to being wished a 'Happy Holiday'...but to call a Christmas tree a Holiday tree?...a foolish game of words. You don't see these same people renaming a Menorah, a candle holder.

It is troubling that companies or government systems feel the need to tell others what to say or call symbols something else so non-Christians aren't offended. I wonder if the offended parties argue with their employer saying they want to work on December 25 because by closing a store or office in observance, they are forcing them to celebrate a religious holiday.

Do people not care that redefining a traditional holiday symbol to soothe one group, offends the Christians? It seems to be the one religion that is allowed little tolerance. All this fuss to avoid (gasp) a Christ reference. (We could get into a discussion that the tree is a pagan symbol but I see no need.)

Christmas is the name of the holiday, period, and non-Christians celebrate it with as much joy and enthusiasm as I do. I simply think it is intellectually dishonest to call the day and its symbols something else.

Mark 8:38
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”