They’d much prefer we keep insulting each others intelligence by pretending the tree we put up every time around Christmas totally isn’t a Christmas tree.

On Monday, Walker decided that he wanted to shake things up a bit. Rather than following recent tradition and referring to the (Christmas) tree that is placed in the Wisconsin’s Capitol Rotunda as a “holiday tree,” he’s changing course. For the past 25 years, lawmakers have referred to the evergreen that is decorated with ornaments and a star with this benign, uncategorized reference. Now, Walker plans to, once again, call the tree what it is — a Christmas tree…

Rather than making a big deal out of the change, the governor simply put out a press release that referred to the holiday decoration as a Christmas tree. The release doesn’t note that any change in reference occurred.

But when asked, spokesman Cullen Werwei confirmed that the decision was intentional. “It’s a Christmas tree,” Werwei said. “In all honesty, I don’t know what more to say about it.” In the Charleston Daily Mail, Don Surber echoed this sentiment, writing, “Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin just ended 25 years of stupidity.”

Not everyone agrees, though. The infamous Freedom From Religion Foundation, a group of atheists and “freethinkers,” doesn’t plan to let the change go unnoticed. Annie Laurie Gaylor, the group’s president, called the decision both rude and insensitive to non-Christians.

Again, much better to instead insult each others intelligence. God (oops!) forbid someone gets offended by a dominantly Christian country calling a Christmas tree a Christmas tree. In fact, as Tina Korbe notes, Christmas trees at one point offended Christians. They got over it and enjoyed the merriment.

If the White House can have a Christmas tree, Wisconsin’s state capital can have a Christmas tree. And those offended can take a chill pill.

After all, I’d be offended if Wisconsin didn’t call it a Christmas tree. So there. You’re either going to offend an atheist or me. Someone’s going to be offended one way or another. May as well be the petulant whiners trying to destroy the country’s cultural heritage.