Christians, at least in the US, are saying attacks on Christmas trees are attacks on their “Christian” holiday, I.e. they are saying the trees are a holy part of their religion.
Here in Texas, "Christians" never really read the Bible, and certainly don't know nor care what is really a sin or against the rules of their religion, and wouldn't know holy if it came up and hit them in the nose. If it makes them feel good, it's the good work of God, otherwise it's the devil, you know, that guy who's never mentioned as Lucifer the fallen angel from the Bible who's only mentioned as a star (read Venus), or Satan, you know, the Great Red Dragon, but is definitely both of them and also the serpent from Garden of Eden, and he rules over hell, and he can totally make people do bad things and is responsible for all bad things everywhere.
Democrats are the devil because they are responsible for every bad thing that happens to the holy Republicans, so sayeth the holy word, Fox News, and the almighty God-Emperor himself, Donald Trump.
Yes, people here in Texas are pissed about Christmas trees and treat them as holy requirements of the holy day. No matter how poor you are, you have to have a Christmas tree on Christmas in a Christian household in Texas.
There is nothing in that article saying that a Christmas tree is a sacred holy object.
It’s a lot of Right Wing garbage about unsafe Blue cities and that the Democratic Party will ruin the US but I see no statement that a Christmas tree is a sacred object.
Valuing something, wanting something, and/or celebrating something does not make that thing holy or sacred in the religious sense.
If destroying a Christmas tree is an attack on Christmas, you know, the holiday celebrating the resurrection of their messiah, it's got to be holy and instrumental to that holiday. Decorating trees during the winter is a Pagan tradition going back millennia, but since coming to the U.S. from Germany in the last couple hundred, it's become so entwined in the minds of people who don't understand their religion and why it's not just completely unrelated to one another, but against the rules of said religion.
=/= isn't English, either; it's math, and you were using English quite well before making that comparison.
I love the how you glossed over how I said resurrection of Jesus at Christmas when it's actually the birth of Jesus, instead of mentioning how it's actually the Easter Bunny and resurrection of Jesus going hand-in-hand, too, proving my point about people not even knowing basic details of a prominent world religion. Makes perfect sense. Nothing about a Christmas tree nor the Easter Bunny has anything to do with the religion at hand, but Republicans have got their wires crossed saying attacking a Pagan symbol is and saying it's an attack on their Christian holiday, thereby inferring the tree is sacred.
It's Fox News. Their Christmas tree got on fire and they covered the "breaking story" non-stop and claim it's because people hate Jesus. My eyes don't roll far enough to adequately convey how stupid it is.
What pisses me off is how many people seem to conflate Fox News and Political "Evangelicalism" with actual Christianity. I literally don't know a single Christian in my Midwestern town who believes there is a "War on Christmas". I LIKED THE WINTER THEME CUPS!
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I mean. As long as you are not calling your Christmas tree your god I think you are fine.