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Giving Christmas trees a more inclusive name like holiday trees in an effort to increase the sales of trees to non-Christians gives the professional viewers with alarm another opportunity to manipulate its fan base.

But now, thanks to poor Bill O'Reilly's protestations, Christian America thinks it faces a crisis. As he sees it, corporate America has allowed an assault on his religion because some guy in the marketing department tried to bump up tree sales - or worse yet, tried to show respect to those of us who happen not to observe Christmas, but spend our dollars and pay our taxes just the same.

Christians, who outnumber those of all other faiths combined in the American population, are, to hear Bill bewail it, under siege. Disrespected. Disregarded. Lumped into a generic category with all the rest of us mere heathens.

Few things are more risible than hearing the majority whine that it is persecuted.

Marketing gimmick mistaken for assault

Richard Evans Lee
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According to the last figures I saw, something like 80% of the U.S. population identifies as Christian. The notion that they are (or even could be) persecuted is absurd. From what I understand, the thing with the tree started before there were Christians and will probably be around after 80% of my neighbors come to their senses.

Posted by: vjack | December 11, 2005 10:09 AM

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My thanks,
Richard

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