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Jeff Lord illustrates the silliness of Lincoln Chafee calling a Christmas tree a Holiday tree. Let me add to Chafee’s conundrum.
By Chafee’s reasoning, if he were Governor of New Mexico, wouldn’t he have to rename Santa Fe? Translated into English, Santa Fe means Holy Faith.
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Interested Conservative| 12.2.11 @ 2:56PM
Forget New Mexico - isn't the Gov.'s office in Providence? How can he even go to work in such a theocratic setting?
City of St. Francis| 12.2.11 @ 7:44PM
And don't forget about Sacramento, California
Occam's Tool| 12.3.11 @ 1:36AM
And Las Cruces, NM.
mjd| 12.4.11 @ 11:09PM
Does not Lincoln “The Missing Link” Chafee know that “holiday” tree is also a politically incorrect anti-multicultural name for “Christmas” tree.
“Holiday” is derived from “holy day” which was used in England probably from the middle ages to mean “holy days” on the calendar of the Catholic Church. Other religions have their religious holy days but “holiday” as we use it today is derived from holy days denoting holy days on the calendar of the Catholic Church. With Henry VIII’s break from the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, the “High” Anglican Church likely continued to use “holy days” though “Low” Anglicans, Separatists and other Protestant sects in England likely abandoned use of the term "holy day" because they did not want to use or copy any practices or vestiges of the Catholic Church.