Bah Humbug!

Actually, it's an adapted pagan tradition. Happy holidays!

Since the bible condemns folks who decorate trees, it's certainly not a christian tradition.

What if there had been a Spotted Owl in the trees?

WackAMole said:

LOL it does not

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Jeremiah 10:2-4 dude. Jesus hates Christmas Trees!

HATES THEM!

WackAMole said:

Haha well I dont have the bible with me here at work to check that but if memory serves, Christmas trees weren't even around then LOL

Now hush you trouble maker

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2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

WackAMole said:

Haha well I dont have the bible with me here at work to check that but if memory serves, Christmas trees weren't even around then LOL

Now hush you trouble maker

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Of COURSE Christmas trees where around in Old Testament times. How else could Jeremiah WRITE about them!?!?

I don't have to go looking for trouble. He has me on speed dial.

Hey GOOD L-double-O-K-I-N-G.
I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2715008&page=1

The man behind their disappearance, Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, told a Seattle newspaper he's "appalled" that the airport officials removed the trees. His goal was not to clear out Christmas, but rather to add a celebration of Hanukah. He asked the port of Seattle, which runs the airport, to build an eight-foot menorah and hold a lighting ceremony.

"Everyone should have their spirit of the holiday," he told the Seattle Times. "For many people, the trees are the spirit of the holidays, and adding a menorah adds light to the season."

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Christmas trees and menorahs were sufficiently secular that they could be displayed in a government building without constituting an endorsement of a particular religion

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With all due respect, Rabbi, Hanukah is not a nationally recognized holiday, and since the Supreme Court ruled this to be okay, why on earth are you suing?

Just forget about it. They don't want to put up a menorah. So what? You have to sue? Come on...there are bigger freaking problems in the world then some airport not having a menorah or a barren pole or a Kwanzaa bush.

A Christmas tree and some happy holiday signs are enough.

If people want to put up other things BY CHOICE, that's great. If not, not. You want a menorah, make a request, without threats and hopefully this year or next year or sometime it will be granted. Have people write letters, whatever.

Patricia Davis, president of the Seattle Port Commission, called the tree-clearing "regrettable."

"We tried to come to some accommodation or some resolution and could not," she said. "They issued us several ultimatums and finally said they would sue is in federal court. … The time deadline was 10 a.m. Friday. … We were faced with the choice of spending unknown amounts of the public's money on litigation, or, in the next few days, trying to figure out how to accommodate all the cultures in our society."

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I understand her frustration but her "okay...now we're taking down everything, how do you like that?!" attitude makes me thinks that maybe there was another way.

I would have put up the menorah or gone to court.

Way to IMO come to the wrong solution, Patricia.

"Ahhhh, I'm taking the trees down!"

WackAMole said:

I gotta agree with you here on all points. In a way, the response to the problem almost seemed to instigate intentionally.

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Yes, well said.

I think all parties are wrong in the way this was handled.

What the hell's wrong with you people? Agreeing on shit? In TIO?

I'm disappointed in the both of you.

Now. You two better find something to disagree with before I get back, or there'll be trouble.