Paul M. Cook
A menorah *is* a candelabrum.
Grow the hell up. If you need to find things to be offended about, there's a hell of a lot more that should be occupying your thoughts than a freakin tree. Like millions of people in fairly desperate straits because of natural disasters. Or a pointless war in the middle east. Or the balance of trade and deficits. Or ignorance and illiteracy, not to put too fine a point on it.
Buy a cheapie little tree and give the rest of the money to the Salvation Army or somebody else who will do something Christian with it. Christianity isn't about decorations.
decorated with old bathing suits and sunglbuttes to signal the end of the summer season. Trees are decorated with those yellow buglights because there are still mosquitoes around, you know...
Nothing else to complain about, I guess...
Right. Like there isn't enough to whine about, it's suddenly necessary to worry about what other people call a freakin tree. And to imbue it with all that religious claptrap when it's just a tree with stuff hanging on it. A freakin tree...
It's a pagan symbol appropriated by Christianity. It has nothing to do with anything religious. It's precisely a holiday icon. Nothing more.
Your Christianity is pretty shaky if you think it comes down to a freakin tree. Get over it.
Pastorio
