tendentious \ten-DEN-shus\, adjective:
Marked by a strong tendency in favor of a particular point of view.
Holiday or Christmas??
What's with all the recent "sensitivity" to pleasing (or at least not offending) every religion in the world? The debate is so heated this year that the media has even resorted to calling Christmas trees by their secular name, a Holiday Tree. The national Christmas tree took a stand this year by being name the National Christmas Tree for the first time since 1990 when it started being known as the National Holiday Tree.
Let's not forget that if Jesus were not born we'd not even have a Christmas. What are we supposed to call it -- Mohammadmas? This issue ignites my exasperation at a society that has become almost too pitiful to live in. First we have to remove the word God from the pledge and now we have to call it a holiday tree? I don't think so. Take God out of life all you want, but you're still going to be sorry for it in the end.
I have to go decorate my Christmas Tree now. (okay not really...I live in a condo, where am I going to put a tree?)
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Screw 'em!!! It's our Holiday and our tradition and it is a C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s TREE!!! I'm sick of all this catering to the secular freaks that fear offending everyone and want to include all by calling it something it is not. If it makes little Abdul or Abraham happy to call it a holiday tree, they can have their own holiday tree in the temple or mosque, and blow themselves up over whose is better. I also hate it when people that aren't Christians have Christmas trees. There's too much ala carte spirituality in this country. Nothing is sacred and it ruins it for those who truly believe.
Chris
so if it is not "Christmas" then which holiday exactly is it??? Jewish tradition does not have a tree. That Kwanza nonsense doesn't have anything I am aware of. And Muslims have nothing in December. Ramadan is in Nov and there is no tree associated with that. We would however rightly call this a Babylonian tree because this is where it originated. Read Jeremiah 10 and if you are not aghast at what you see then you weren't paying attention!! So, what then should we do with all this? Refrain from putting up trees because it comes from the same pagan background as the Easter egg (really do rabbits lay eggs??). Or do we just stand back and realize that the Christmas tree has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. The root of the issue is not the tree, let's not get sidetracked. The root of the issue is Jesus Christ and the aggressive liberal attack to get Him out of their lives. Well, fotunately, God has a unique plan to accomodate these Christ-rejectors. It is called the "Rapture" (coming from the latin Vulgate translation of the Bible "rapturo"). The day is coming quickly ("suddenly" per the original Greek new testament trans "tachi", from which we get "tachometer") when Jesus comes back for His "bride" the church. The Holy Spirit will be taken away and the planet will revert back to old testament times wrt the Spirit. God will remove Himself from the earth and the pagans here will have exactly what they asked for, a life without God. Then will come the anti-christ and all hell will break lose and people will have an opportunity to find out for themselves if they really want a life without God. God respects man's desire to make his own choices. God did not make us a bunch of automatons but gave us free will. The day will come when we can either follow Jesus Christ or reject Him and all eternity will be based on that one solitary decision. Christmas trees or not, all that will make no difference at that time. Do I put up a tree? I like them because they smell nice and I love the lights and festive atmosphere they help to create. But do I remember that Jesus Christ is the central person in my life? Yes! In the meantime while I await my King's return, I'll remember the reason for the season and the real issue - the cosmic battle going on over this issue.
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