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# Throwing Dry Pine Needles on a Fire
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3162/
- Published: 2005-11-27T15:15:38.000Z
- Updated: 2005-11-27T15:15:38.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Holidays, #wpChunk

[As if we didn't already have plenty of Christmas wars going on already](http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-11-25T225326Z%5F01%5FKRA582362%5FRTRUKOC%5F0%5FUS-LIFE-TREE.xml&ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> Boston set off a furor this week when it officially renamed a giant tree erected in a city park a "holiday tree" instead of a "Christmas tree."

> The move drew an angry response from Christian conservatives, including evangelist Jerry Falwell who heckled Boston officials and pressed the city to change the name back.

> "There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas," Falwell told Fox Television.

> The Nova Scotia logger who cut down the 48-foot (14-meter) tree was indignant and said he would not have donated the tree if he had known of the name change.

> "I'd have cut it down and put it through the chipper," Donnie Hatt told a Canadian newspaper. "If they decide it should be a holiday tree, I'll tell them to send it back. If it was a holiday tree, you might as well put it up at Easter."