Christmas is for Christians

This whole debate over whether Christmas trees should be called Holiday trees in order not to offend others or be more inclusive to non-Christians simply infuriates me.

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ. Christmas trees came from a European tradition celebrating the birth of Christ. Like it not, those are the facts.

I personally don't want Jews, Muslims or Athiests to participate in Christmas... it's not their holiday. They have their own holidays. Just as I will not ask the Jews to call the menorah a holiday candle stick, don't ask me to call the Christmas tree a holiday tree.

All I hear is that Christians should be more accomodating and be more sympathetic to those offended by the display of Christmas trees.

My answer? Bite me. Christmas is for Christians. End of story.

Santa Claus is for everybody else.

Christians have been bending over and taking it for way too long, because we want to be, well, Christian in our behavior. But that behavior should not enable those who would strip away our values and beliefs from the fiber of this country.

If the majority of this country holds Judeo/Christian values, the laws of this country should reflect that. If the majority of our country holds Judeo/Christian values, our government should be allowed to acknoweldge that. And if the majority of this country holds Judeo/Chrisitian values, then a Christmas tree should be proudly called a Christmas tree.

What people SHOULD be asking is whether changing the name of the Christmas tree would offend Christians, which make up 80% of the United States.

The answer is a very loud YES. The problem is that too few people care to hear or acknoweldge that answer.

We, in a public display of our faith, should keep shouting it until they finally get it.