Holiday tree?

CBC Nova Scotia – No ‘holiday’ tree for this grower

This is getting ridiculous. Society has gone completely mental. If someone is offended by the word ‘Christmas’ they need to give their heads a shake. I don’t consider myself a chiristian but still celebrate Christmas. I don’t celebrate holiday. I know, I know it has the word christ in it and has been a part of a ‘christian’ (whatever the hell that means this week) holiday since the seventh century. This fear of offending someone with a word like Christmas is getting far out of hand. I would understand were it a hate-filled racist word, but it isn’t. Its just a word that means ‘the day I get presents’, that’s all. Heck, if we really want to get nitpicky, the word holiday is based on the term ‘holy day’ and a holy day denotes one religion or another so holiday is out to. What should one call it then? How about saying, Happy December 25th? I mean the word December comes from the Roman word for ten, so unless nine and eleven are offended I think we have a winner.

I’m grateful that we can say Merry Christmas to people here if we wish to. When Carol and her family lived in Saudi Arabia they weren’t allowed to say Merry Christmas in any banners displayed publically and artificial Christmas trees had to be smuggled into the country.

What’s next? Santa Claus? Santa Claus is a shortened form of Saint Nicolas. That’s right… another christian thing… I can picture the song now:

Here comes the obese redsuited man,
Here comes the obese redsuited man,
Right down obese redsuited man lane…

Political correctness taken to this extreme is pretty silly.