Wisconsin Capitol Building's "Holiday Tree"

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Originally Posted by SECdomination

Stuff like this make me want to vomit. I hate that everyone in America is so set on making minorities (religious, and other) feel "comfortable" that we isolate the majority.
Everyone knows it's a Christmas tree- it would have been better not to have one at all, rather than calling it a Holiday Tree or whatever it is.

Amen! (oops, hope I didn't offend anyone with that.)

But at the same time- don't let it get you down.

In my personal experience, the VAST majority of people in this country have no problem with Christmas trees or being wished a Merry Christmas etc. And on the same note, I as a Christian have no trouble attending ceremonies of other religions or being greeted with seasonal tidings that pertain to other religious holidays.

It is always an honor to be greeted in the manner or included in the experience of a person's religion, and I treat it as such and am thankful for the sign of friendship it indicates.

The people who really fight these battles are, in my experience, in some way very unhappy with their own failed lives and this is how they can inflict themselves on everyone else and feel like they have power- and they do it because they realize they have noone to blame but themselves for their misery.

A dark thought perhaps, but one I keep in mind when I hear stories like this lest I get pulled into those people's own sense of paranoid hatred and start assuming all non-Christians are out to get us, when in fact it is just a few people who are so unhappy with themselves they will settle for sharing a little of their misery with anyone.