What I also found entirely silly is the ignorance behind the holiday tree. No other winter religious celebration (Hannukah, Kwanzaa) has a tree as its centerpiece. The only one that does is Christmas, which celebrates, yes, Christ's birth. That is, it's a Christian holiday. To take a tree whose only symbolism is manifestly Christian, and to pretend it's just a holiday tree when no other holidays include the tree is so ill-informed.
Is this like what the early Catholic Church did when they co-opted pagan customs and mixed them in with Christian celebrations? Have we gone from "See, you can have all your old pagan fun and still be Christians" to "See you can still have all you Christian imagery without all that pesky religion?"
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