why does yahoo make holidays non religious?

Question

I was fooling around with the goofy avatar setting and noticed that Yahoo has Christmas, Easter, Kwanzaa backgrounds, as well as gay pride, national out day, vote etc. When I flipped through the Christmas and easter I noticed there were no religious refrences to two Christian based holidays. Since they make sure to feature gay holidays why not give equal footing to a religious holiday? Include a cross background for those who want to choose as well as a Easter bunny back ground for those who are not religous.....Seems kind of discrimanatory...Any thoughts?

Notice I said Religous, meaning ALL religions, not just Christians. I'm sure there are a just a few Christian, Jewish, Taoist, Buddhist yahoo users. Why not put a little of everything up? and why is it when a Christian asks for equal air time people who would consider themselves open minded openly attack with personal insults? Amazing.

I did research it, the easiest one to read is wikipedia, it was sanctioned as religious by some and pagan by later Romans; looks like it's always been a debate.

Answer 1

Part of it is simply that they wish to treat all religious holidays equally. Unfortunately, to do this means including all or excluding all. Christmas and Easter have been turned secular so are included.If you want the Christian holidays included, you will also need to include all the Pagan, Jewish, Muslim,Satanist, Buddhist, Taoist, Shinto holidays as well as every small cult that wishes to come along. Unfortunately, as unfair as it seems it is the only way to keep a religious balance and not discriminate against anyone by denying all.

Answer 2

Christians need to find a holiday that isn't originally based on a pagan (or other prior religion) holiday. Then there would be no reason not to have specifically christian themes. But xmas, easter and the like are all holidays established upon previously established religion holidays. Blame your religious organizations for not being original in choosing dates for holidays.

Answer 3

I found an angel in the Hallowe'en section...
I don't think they really include actual religious symbols for anyone, so don't feel discriminated against. If they had stuff for Christmas, then they would have to include something for whatever bizarre cult is the flavor of the month. Do you really want to wade through cyanide-laced-kool-aide backgrounds? I don't.

When they start telling me what I can and cannot decorate my home with, I'll be with the crowd holding the pitchforks in front of city hall...probably won't be one of the ones actually holding a pitchfork, mind you.

Answer 4

This is dreary.

I don't mind Christians,really...well, up to a point...but I do wish you'd take the time to do just a BIT of investigative research.

Neither Christmas nor Easter began as Christian days of celebration. Both holidays are pagan in origin.

December 21st is the Winter Solstice, and December 25th is the "birthday" of Mithras...who, peculiarly enough, is referred to as "the Son of God".

Easter is Ostara, a charming celebration of spring, symbolized by eggs (including the human kind) and bunny rabbits...who do it like bunny rabbits. In order to make little bunny rabbits. Tra la, get it?

Oh, don't trust me. RESEARCH IT.

Answer 5

Because not everyone is christian like you are. Get out of that self-absorbed little bubble of yours. And it will be discriminatory if it only featured christian-based avatars.

They're trying to keep any religious controversy out of their site, but noooo....you just had to drag it back in.

Answer 6

you can prove that there are homosexuals around but not deities....Maybe Yahoo likes truth

Answer 7

It's the world we live in, sad but true.