Ok, I'm a little dense here -- why is Eurotree more/less PC/inclusive/whatever than Christmas tree?

I think that will remain one of those strange unanswered questions known only to someone in Ralphs marketing department.

I wonder if it occured to your parents that you might turn out atheist when they named you that.

Well allow me this brief derail for the condensed version of my family’s religious history. First off, I was named after my maternal grandfather without much consideration for the symbology represented by the name.

My mother’s side of the family were Mennonites of varying levels of observance – the strictest of which shunned the use of technology like radios and television, the others simply covering up such things with lace doilies when company was over.

On my father’s side, my grandmother was Catholic and my grandfather was one of those turn-of-the century (the 20th) “enlightened” Germans who lived in the woods fascinated with Schopenhauer and Buddhism declaring nature to be his church.

But my parents grew up in World War Two Germany, witnessing untold cruelty by the most righteous of neighbors, an experience that demonstrated to them in their own experience the complete lack of any sort of benevolent deity. However, they kept that to themselves and encouraged me to join my friends in their worship. As a result I grew up more comfortable in a synagogue than a church, since most of my closest friends were Jewish.

So no, don't think it mattered much to my parents, though they probably crack a smile over the irony of it.

I hope this doesn't get buried at the bottom of this thread.

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Brilliant!!!!!!