I'm FED UP. MY TOWN is calling it a HOLIDAY TREE....IT'S A CHRISTMAS TREE FOR CRIPES SAKE!!!!

It's one of the many things that **** me off about this country these days... In america we celebrate christmass, trees are for christmass if your going to put up a tree its not a holiday tree its a ******* christmas tree.

I REFUSE TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT
IT IS MERRY CHRISTMAS
FOLLOW ALONG M-E-R-R-Y C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S.

I WILL NOT BEHAVE LIKE I AM ASHAMED OF BEING A CHRISTIAN

AND YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE OFFENSE TO IT. I WILL NOT BE OFFENDED IF YOU CELEBRATE KWANZA, HAUNUHKA OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS YOUR RIGHT AND MAY YOUR CELEBRATIONS BE JOYOUS

That is rather aggravating. Christmas is the only holiday we put a tree in our house for, calling it a "holiday tree" is both insulting and moronic.

Pine trees were actually used originally to celebrate Yule not Christmas

would you stop spreading that Bill O'Reilly (pervert) talking point crap already Its still called christmas everywhere Ive been theres no war on christmas

MORE PC CRAP..

I too am Sick and tired of everybody changing the names and titles of things in the name of Political Correctness, I say call a Spade a Spade. lol

Political correctness SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there a question this statement or merely sheer disappointment?

Unfortunately modern society has no desire for Christmas or even X-mas, though Halloween (not the original "All Saints Day") or the Easter Bunny (not Easter Sunday) are publicized dramatically. Christian pride is "single-minded", whereas Muslim pride is "a given right". The one man and one woman debate is "flagrant and appalling", whereas the LGBT march is "a beautiful show of skin [lots of skin] and love". African-American History month is broadcasted (though they are simply "American Americans") and the thought of "Caucasian American History month" is racist. Santa is the reason and Jesus is the myth. Spaghetti monsters are real and God is false. Dependence is immanent whereas independence is endangered.

All-in-all the same moral, religious, constitutional, and downright simple foundations of the United States of America are the same morals, faith, constitutional stances, and simple foundations that America has allowed itself to abandon. And that is why you buy a Holiday (Holy Day) Tree and not a Christmas (also a Holy Day) tree.

Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, celebrated from December 17th - 25th. The Catholic church officially declared December 25th the day of christ's birth in the 4th century as an attempt to bring the pagan community into the fold. It didn't work so well, since the earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, and singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling) - all aspects of Saturnalia.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice was celebrated as the Great Mother Goddess gave birth to the baby Sun God. It is also called Yule, the day a huge log (the "yule log") is added to a bonfire, around which everyone would dance and sing to awaken the sun from its long winter sleep.

Worshippers of the Asheira cult were recruited by the Church by sanctioning “Christmas Trees.” Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, bringing them into their homes and decorating them. This observance was adopted and glossed over with a Christian veneer by the Church. Both the Norse and Celtic religions considered mistletoe a sacred and powerful plant, which is why it too was adopted into the holiday. Gift giving was a traditional part of Saturnalia. It was tacked onto St. Nicholas to "Christianize" it. However, the idea of Nicholas leaving presents in childrens' stockings was co-opted from an earlier pagan goddess. Also, gifts were given on December 6th - not the 25th. It was moved to the 25th by the Catholic church, once again to draw in the pagans.

December 25 is also a day on which, for hundreds of years, Jews were shamed, tortured, and murdered.

The original war on Christmas was waged during the sixteenth and seventeenth century by protestant christians who believed that people needed strict rules to be religious and that any kind of merrymaking was sinful. Because of its known pagan origin, Christmas was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681. The Plymouth colony made celebrating Christmas a criminal offense.

So, maybe you could get down off of that high horse and accept that nearly every culture has some sort of holiday that centres around the end of December, and your religion has stolen many of them. That said, I don't think it is asking too much for you to acknowledge that there are people of all faiths (and people of no faiths) that are celebrating this time of year and say "happy holidays" to them.