2006-10-21 17:19:35 · 25 answers · asked by maria t 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
NO, never take Christ out of Christmas...........He is the reason for the season.......
2006-10-21 17:22:45 · answer #1 · answered by avery 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why? Christians, Pagans (including Agnostics) and Atheists are pretty much the only ones who have trees up. Jews do not have trees because they were strictly forbidden by Jeremiah in the OT to have anything to do with them. Plus, they don't have anything to do with Hanukkah. Those celebrating Kwanzaa and Ramadan don't have trees as part of their celebrations.
The only ones who feel they should be called holiday trees are the PC police, namely the government and radical religious groups who dictate what other people feel and say that those people in question are being extremely offended by things that don't bother said folks at all in the first place.
So, no I don't think it should be changed. I think it should be left alone and for the PC police mind their own business. Look at what they've already mucked up over the years without adding Christmas to the mix.
2006-10-21 17:31:47 · answer #2 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't. A Christmas Tree is a Christmas tree. Other religions have something to celebrate the holidays, like a menorah for Hanukkah.
2006-10-21 18:13:11 · answer #3 · answered by bridgetrocks86 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, it's one of the sillier aspects of "political correctness." Some politically correct speech makes sense; like using gender neutral language when gender isn't known. A firefighter may be a man or a woman, so why not use the neutral term?
But the "Holiday Tree" is basically just pretending that the symbol is generic when it is not. Certain symbols -- whether it's a menorah, a cross, a crescent moon or a bindi -- have religious significance. Pretending they do not is a way to avoid our differences rather than understanding and accepting them.
2006-10-21 17:38:48 · answer #4 · answered by jaywalk57 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh, heck no!!!! Are you going to be the one to convince everyone to start call a Christmas tree a holiday tree? I'm not trying to be rude, but why would anyone ever consider such an idea?
2006-10-21 19:34:10 · answer #5 · answered by shortcakes 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Christmas Tree brings JOY to a lot of People Have you ever been in a House when you First light up a Christmas...And the room is full of children....And see the love in their eyes....Or how it makes you remaness each Christmas that you spent....with all your Family over the years......Special things that each one of us would hang on the tree....And how you could always remember your favor it out of all the trees that you had...Christmas brings JOY HAPPINESS..and TOGETHERNESS'S....And ITS that one time in the year that every one fills love and cared about.....And any thing that is of God is all GOOD...AND if we all have His BIRTHDAY wrong SO WHAT he DO NT CARE because He is a forgiven GOD....SO yes it is CHRISTMAS TREE IT SHALL BE ....God bless us all....
2006-10-21 18:28:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No and saying Happy Holidays shouldn't replace Merry Christmas either.
2006-10-22 01:04:50 · answer #7 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a Christmas tree is a Christmas tree..never in a million years should it be changed..
2006-10-21 17:26:04 · answer #8 · answered by jst4pat 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What difference does it make? Christmas, like Easter and Halloween, are pagan in origin. Changing the name of a tree doesn't make it any more or less respectable to Jesus.
2006-10-22 05:15:58 · answer #9 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it has been and always will be Christmas Tree and no one can change that.
2006-10-21 17:27:24 · answer #10 · answered by Andrea 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes.Christmas was adopted to pacify the newly converted Pagans.Jesus was actually born in April, according to theologians.It even says in Jeremiah 10:2-4 that decorating a tree is a Pagan thing to do.Virtually every religion has a holiday around the Winter Solstice.Being Pagan myself, in my house, we have a Solstice Tree.
2006-10-21 17:28:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋