Who is offended by a christmas tree

It is deceptive. While using green trees during the winter solstice celebration predates Christianity, by the 16th century and possibly even the 15th century the custom of the Christmas tree developed as "devout Christians bringing decorated trees into their homes," according to History.

Urban Dictionary defines a holiday tree as a "phrase used by folks who feel vaguely guilty about celebrating Christmas, and decide to pretend that what they are doing is celebrating some 'universal' holiday that uses 'universal holiday' trees.

The religious should be offended because it is an attempt to secularize a Christian symbol of Christmas. For Jews, it would be like calling a menorah a holiday candelabra. Many people say, not really. Back in , the city did just that. On a sunny but crisp afternoon in the lead-up to Christmas , people stopped to have a look or snap a selfie in front of the marketplace Christmas tree.

And when asked if they saw religious meaning in the plus-foot-tall tree, most of them said, not really. Related: Listen to Shirin Jaafari's story about deciding whether she wanted to buy her own Christmas tree. It's no more Christian than Rudolph, egg nog, and credit cards.

Also leaning me to tree, I worry about accommodating to such minor offenses as the tree's presence. If we legitimate taking offense at such piffling discourtesies, how can we ever "just get along"? Perhaps it's time to pot down our offensiveness meter's amplitude.

Indeed, many workplaces become dysfunctional because of outrage and retaliation against flyspeck and even imagined slights. If I were in charge of a workplace, I'd have a holiday tree on which people could hang ornaments of any persuasion, religious or otherwise: from Madonna either one to hammer and sickle.

That said, we live in an era of inclusion, in which people who perceive themselves as excluded or treated unequally are too likely to erupt. Or sue. For example, one such case reached all the way to the U. Whenever Muslims move to Western nations they try to change everything about the culture to conform to sharia law.

You can see in the video several Muslim men climbing a Christmas tree in a Mall. They are trying to tear it apart. Advancing the suggestion that the video had been filmed in America was a nearly universally included ancillary and misleading claim that Muslims had demanded the cancellation of Christmas holidays in Maryland public schools back in :.

Religion of peace huh? The video below seems to point to the contrary as Muslims are seen tearing down a mall Christmas tree because it is a Christian holiday and in their minds, Jesus was only a prophet. Despite an utter lack of contextual information, the clip spread like wildfire on Facebook and Twitter.