"Once again a linguine spined two faced politician" - No personal attack there!

BTW, I agree with you- it is a Christmas Tree. But it's no longer a question of "majority"- the Christmas Tree, like poinsettias and santa represent the secular national holiday of Christmas, not the religious one. That is ingrained in our national tradition.

The Christmas Tree has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus- it was an appropriation of a pagan symbol for a christian symbol.

If you start talking mangers anf the Holy Trinity, then you're talking religion.

Regarding, "Really?

Under Article VII - Ratification you will find the term "in the year of our Lord" clearly written.

The term Anno Domini is Medieval Latin, translated as In the year of (the/Our) Lord.[1][2]:782 It is sometimes specified more fully as Anno Domini Nostri Iesu (Jesu) Christi"

That's the vernacular usage of the time, not a religious reference. To make more of it is to be a historical revisionist by claiming some meaning is there is in the "original" constitution that really wasn't.

Saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes is proslytizing, nor is it a religious incantation. Those of you who are strict "contructionist" or "originalists" should live by your own words.

Here's a few quotes from those who continually claim our Founding Fathers were devout Christians, rather than Deists. (Christian in that "Born again," "saved" in the southern Baptist sense that is).

"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than on our opinions in physics and geometry....The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

-Thomas Jefferson 1823, Statutes of Virgina on Religious Freedom

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."

-Thomas Jefferson

"And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter." Notation by Thomas Jefferson in his own bible- 1825