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In reply to the discussion: Christmas Poll number 2 [View all]

Igel

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18. Don't do Xmas.
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 08:30 PM
Nov 2017

But figure that if I'm going to ridicule Xians I'm going to ridicule Muslims and Wiccans and Buddhists and Taoists and those given over to the arcana of string theory.

So I ridicule none of them.

I would like to see the ridiculous Xmas tree no longer part of the US cultural economy, however, with official US governmental imprimitur. Then again, I think of a national day of Thanksgiving as a kind of Constitutional no-no; it is, after all, what Jefferson and his "wall of separation" was referring to.

(I call myself a Xian, but figure that a cross is in no way Xian. Nor Xmas. Nor Xmas trees.)

Christmas Poll number 2 [View all] gopiscrap Nov 2017 OP
None. I have cats. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #1
we have several small trees scattered around up high so kitty can't get them :) Takket Nov 2017 #6
My cat loves to climb up the tree and gopiscrap Nov 2017 #7
We have cats. But I'm not about to give up my tree . . . Ms. Toad Nov 2017 #15
I have cats Mz Pip Nov 2017 #20
I live in a condo that doesn't allow trees gopiscrap Nov 2017 #2
I like real ones... NCTraveler Nov 2017 #3
In place of Merry Christmas I plan to say Happy Birthday Angry Dragon Nov 2017 #4
Happy Birthday Baby Jesus? grossproffit Nov 2017 #9
yes Angry Dragon Nov 2017 #12
Both! Real tree in the family room MontanaMama Nov 2017 #5
I gave up a while ago dhol82 Nov 2017 #8
Norfolk Pine janterry Nov 2017 #10
I used to like a Noble Fir gopiscrap Nov 2017 #11
Having done all three in the last ten years, I prefer no tree Freethinker65 Nov 2017 #13
I have cats, so no Christmas tree meow2u3 Nov 2017 #14
Its ceramic Historic NY Nov 2017 #16
I like real, but we have fake lunamagica Nov 2017 #17
Don't do Xmas. Igel Nov 2017 #18
I'm surprised by the number of "no trees" votes True Dough Nov 2017 #19
Fake... All because of craigslist displacedtexan Nov 2017 #21
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