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Christmas Tree vs Holiday Tree

Which one is it?


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Moderator's Warning:
Dooble, Obvious Child, cease fire immediately. Good Lawd what is the matter with you two? You've jumped the shark. Stop it.





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Moderator's Warning:
Dooble, Obvious Child, cease fire immediately. Good Lawd what is the matter with you two? You've jumped the shark. Stop it.


My apologies. Just taking care of some unfinished business. I'm done with him.
 
There are no winners in the battle between the militant Christians who want to force their limited notion of Christianity into every nook and cranny of public life and the militant atheists who are on a mission to stamp out even the most benign religious reference therein. Not that people here arguing one side or another are representative of such, mind you, but on the national scene, there IS a battle between these two opposing forces and it gets down right silly, sometimes.

Why not just allow people to call it whatever they want and create whatever tradition they want to create around it, eh? 28 pages of blather over a Christmas tree?! Sheesh!
 
Who cares?

There are people who can't afford to eat let alone buy a fake evergreen, and meanwhile we're fabricating some mystical "war on Christmas" and arguing about what to call a ****ing tree.

Wonderful priorities we have America.
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Moderator's Warning:
Dooble, Obvious Child, cease fire immediately. Good Lawd what is the matter with you two? You've jumped the shark. Stop it.


My apologies. Just taking care of some unfinished business. I'm done with him.

Your inability to post even a single sentence in a honest fashion is extremely disturbing.
 
Everything about you is a lie.

Look. You're lying for the fourth time.

This activity has been good, oC. It has helped remind me of the positives of Christmas, and also how negative your side of the holiday is.

No, it's your tendency to insult people who prove you wrong. But thanks for showing you completely incapable of discussing anything honestly.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/144422-christmas-tree-vs-holiday-tree-27.html#post1061225896

People can read that to see just how much you edit and omit. Honestly is not something you practice. Wonder how you consider yourself a good Christian while engaging in that level of sheer dishonesty.
 
Why not just allow people to call it whatever they want and create whatever tradition they want to create around it, eh? 28 pages of blather over a Christmas tree?! Sheesh!

I have no problem with that. I have a problem with people personally insulting others who actually understand just how little (if anything) most of our Christmas beliefs, traditions and rituals have to do with Christ and then epically failing to prove their case that any of those cited rituals, beliefs and traditions are Christ related. Dooble for instance.
 
Who cares?

There are people who can't afford to eat let alone buy a fake evergreen, and meanwhile we're fabricating some mystical "war on Christmas" and arguing about what to call a ****ing tree.

Wonderful priorities we have America.
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Who said this was a priority? The right for women to slaughter their unborn is a helluva lot bigger dilemma than the Christmas tree issue, and most people don't give the gravity of that evil practice a second thought.
 
Christmas Trees: The symbolisms of the spirit of Christmas (at least in positive circles, not your circles).
Gift Giving: Expresses one's love toward another, even commercial gifts at times. Expressing love is definitely Christian
Mistletoe: They have beauty, and Christ is also about beauty. Also, standing under mistletoe gives an opportunity to kiss your true love.
The rest of your list represents happy memories, and family traditions. Christ is all about what makes us happy and what bonds us together as families.

This activity has been good, oC. It has helped remind me of the positives of Christmas, and also how negative your side of the holiday is.

Or...

Christmas Trees: The destruction of our environment for purely commercial and self-serving means. Are you meaning that Christians about the destruction of our planet?
Gift Giving: Presents that love is solely about objects and "things". In your world are Christians this shallow?
Mistletoe: They smell bad and put people who who do not want to be kissed in awkward positions. To you, is Christ about smelling bad and creating discomfort?
The rest of the list is about commercial endeavors in order to sell things to kids. Seems to me that your version of Christianity is all about greed. Is that how Christ felt?

This has been a good exercise, Dooble. It demonstrates just how little you know of the spirit and the meaning of Christmas.
 
Who said this was a priority? The right for women to slaughter their unborn is a helluva lot bigger dilemma than the Christmas tree issue, and most people don't give the gravity of that evil practice a second thought.
You're right, I don't, because I don't consider it an evil practice.

But oh man, you call my precious holiday fern something I don't call it? OMG HOW DARE YOU!!!
 
I believe there is a war on Christianity. Christmas is only part of it. Get your facts straight.

Is the Christian-dominated government taking part in this "War on Christianity."
 
Lol...Merry Christmas Diahna...or Happy Holidays which ever you prefer...see you have to walk down the street now and if you want to greet someone you dont know this time of year...you have to ask them..Can I say Merry Christmas or must I say Happy Holidays or do I have be more specific so as not to offend you...because all I want to do is really greet you cheerfully.

Now there will be 15 posts on how I should just STFU and Say Happy Holidays...I dont wanna though :(

The only way I can seen anyone offended by people telling them, "Merry Christmas," is if a close member of their family died on a Christmas. Not that I give a damn what the tree is called.
 
Is the Christian-dominated government taking part in this "War on Christianity."
LOL I don't think it's surprising to hear that someone who believes in Christian doctrine, also believes that doctrine is under attack.
 
LOL I don't think it's surprising to hear that someone who believes in Christian doctrine, also believes that doctrine is under attack.

Is that doctrine or merely ancient myths and superstitions one by one shown to have absolutely no basis in actual fact? But that process would actually constitute a "war" on a great many religions and on much non-religious foolishness as well. Sounds pretty even-handed to me.
 
Is that doctrine or merely ancient myths and superstitions one by one shown to have absolutely no basis in actual fact? But that process would actually constitute a "war" on a great many religions and on much non-religious foolishness as well. Sounds pretty even-handed to me.
Yeah that's pretty much what it is. The fact that more people are essentially choosing to reject archaic tradition is not war as many folks would have us believe, if anything it's enlightenment.

"Always" in the US. The battleground is in the US, as this country is the last bastion of Christianity.

LOL I didn't see this earlier.

If the USA is the last bastion of Christianity, then boy, you are definitely doomed.
 
I just wanted to mention that here at my nursery we call them Abies Nordmaniana, Picea Pungens, Abies bornmuelleriana, Pseudotsuga menzesii and other similarly melifluous names.
 
Who cares?

There are people who can't afford to eat let alone buy a fake evergreen, and meanwhile we're fabricating some mystical "war on Christmas" and arguing about what to call a ****ing tree.

Wonderful priorities we have America.
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hO, HO, HO!
 
I just wanted to mention that here at my nursery we call them Abies Nordmaniana, Picea Pungens, Abies bornmuelleriana, Pseudotsuga menzesii and other similarly melifluous names.

Them there are conjuring words for devils and demons!
 
Yeah that's pretty much what it is. The fact that more people are essentially choosing to reject archaic tradition is not war as many folks would have us believe, if anything it's enlightenment.
Quite so. Time marches on, but there are those who prefer to lie down at the side of the road and not take another step.
 
Or...

Christmas Trees: The destruction of our environment for purely commercial and self-serving means. Are you meaning that Christians about the destruction of our planet?
Gift Giving: Presents that love is solely about objects and "things". In your world are Christians this shallow?
Mistletoe: They smell bad and put people who who do not want to be kissed in awkward positions. To you, is Christ about smelling bad and creating discomfort?
The rest of the list is about commercial endeavors in order to sell things to kids. Seems to me that your version of Christianity is all about greed. Is that how Christ felt?

This has been a good exercise, Dooble. It demonstrates just how little you know of the spirit and the meaning of Christmas.
Or...

Environut Hysterics: Shows your insane regard for plant life over human life.
Gift Giving: Making this entirely about exchanging things, and ignoring the sharing of one's self.
Mistletoe: Rubbishing the very thing you profess to love: Plant life. Talk about hypocrisy....
The rest of that list represents your shared cynicism with obvious Child, therefore, I have no further interest in debating his clone, either.
 
Or...

Environut Hysterics: Shows your insane regard for plant life over human life.
How is human life in danger here in any way?
 
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