You certainly seem to be a persecuted type of person with a very distorted
notion of 'stolen Christmas and Zionist / Chanuka "majority view".


"Jack Schmidling" > wrote in message
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> Smarty wrote:
>
>> Rather, my comment was in direct reply to the post sarcastically
>> complaining about a tree being referred to as a "holiday tree" and a
>> "winter tree" and "how comforting is not to offend anyone" by calling it
>> a Christmas tree. I found the sarcasm and "comforting" comment a
>> reflection of an attitude that ****EVERYBODY*** is celebrating Christmas
>> as they are.
>
> The sarcasm was intended. Why does one have to avoid offending others by
> pretending that her Christmas tree is a holiday tree.
>
> The bloody box the ornament came in called it a winter tree. How
> comforting is that to the believer who has had her Christmas stolen from
> her.
>
> And ask her how comforting it is to hear nothing but inane "holiday music"
> on the radio instead of the beautiful Christmas carols she grew up
> listening to.
>
> I happen to be an Atheist but I am not blind to the fact that "special
> interest groups" have stolen Christmas.
>
> Less than 2% of this country celebrate Chanuka but listening to the media
> and looking around, one would think it was the majority view.
>
> js