Comedian and actor David Spade offered an example of people deliberately avoiding even mentioning Christianity while trying to keep the faith's holiday traditions in place.

Spade made the comments about a local mall ceremony to light a non-Christmas tree on his podcast with fellow "SNL" alum Dana Carvey, who agreed with his criticism. The "Fly on the Wall" episode was published on Sunday.

'I've never met someone from another religious faith that was upset about a Christmas tree.'

"I will say that Christmas is taking a little bit of a beating lately," Spade said.

"It is December, and I saw the other day there was a tree-lighting ceremony for the Christmas tree in some dopey mall, but it said 'tree-lighting ceremony,'" he added. "And they were careful not to say the word 'Christmas' du

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