The Christmas Wars

What?I can only think you must have misread me.

Leaving them to their idolatries isn't good enough for you?

You seem to be looking for a fight out of nothing. Who's objecting to Christmas trees? We all have Christmas trees. I was asked about punishing people for carving idols out of trees which was one gratuitous poke at me, so you take another gratuitous poke at me for saying anybody's idolatry is none of my business. I was also talking about beheading people, not "pushing customs in my face." Sheesh. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Since I said Christianity is not interfering in their idolatry I'm obviously not "pushing anyone around" so your accusation seems to have no ground whatever.And by the way, Finland's flag is a Christian cross:Google "Flag of Finland" where it says So at some point Finland considered itself a Christian nation, although like so many others now apparently reverting to your original paganism? Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

In the 11th century that would have been Roman Catholicism, not Christianity. I see that your flag didn't exist until the 20th century, because you weren't an independent nation until then? but I always understood those European flags with the Christian cross to have originated with the recovery of true Christianity in the Reformation. Just a point of historical fact to be either confirmed or corrected, I'm really not interested in provoking you although you seem to have been provoked by everything I've said no matter how unprovoking I would have thought I'm being.I consider the Reformation to have been the best thing that ever happened to any nation. Clearly you are of another and rather angry opinion quite apart from anything I might say or any tone I might take.But another question: When you said your celebration of "Joule" was not Christian I did take it to be your original pagan holiday. Is that not right? Surely secularism wouldn't bother celebrating with a Christmas tree.May it have been a merry Whatever in any case. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.