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Tucker seems to think that the Christmas tree itself has religious import for Christians. Today, the so-called Christmas Tree is Christian in name only. It really symbolizes belief in a jolly overweight man who lives at the North Pole and brings gifts to a billion people in a 24-hour period with flying reindeer and elves. It has to do with shopping and 20 percent off sales and flashing lights. It has nothing to do with Jesus, or with what lies at the heart of Christianity and Christmas. They say you can't take the Christ...
...personally think of a Christmas tree as pretty darn secular. But if it can't be separated from its original Christian context, then let's get rid of it rather than turn dinner into a house-funded showcase of religious pluralism, as Tucker argues we must do out of fairness to all faiths. I gave house dues for microwaves, beer and dances--not a gallery of world religions. --Daniel K. Hamalainen...
...create myths for ourselves: Harvard wouldn't be Harvard without the beautiful ice on the tree branches. Harvard wouldn't be such a brilliant place of learning if we didn't have the long winters to study. Harvard wouldn't be Harvard if the Puritans hadn't had to endure hardships that taught them the value of the work ethic...
Another common find in student holiday decor this year is the non-denominational fir tree. An example of a non-Christmas' tree can be found in the common room of a Wigglesworth rooming group...
...different religions in this room so the tree doesn't really have any religious significance," says Ariel S. Frey '99. "We just thought it would be fun to get one and decorate it, since only one of us has had one before...