on our Christmas celebrations merley put in place by white small minded pc lunatics.........like answers from all cultures please.
2006-12-19 08:35:19 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thank you all so far, i hope everyone has a good whatever
2006-12-19 08:43:46 · update #1
only i wish a few tabloid editors would read your views..........media panic breeds uncertanity and hatred
2006-12-19 08:45:22 · update #2
karsi if you are soooo tired of these debates don't get involved in them
2006-12-19 08:51:17 · update #3
Please Christmas is just fine,i'm a Muslim and i would not want anything about Christmas changed just like a lot of my fellow Muslims.
2006-12-19 08:38:11 · answer #1 · answered by Sherzade 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Well,it's summer at Christmas where I live,and noone seems to be worried about Christian symbols.Even most of the Muslim population are fine with it.It doesn't really seem fair to me that in the United States some schools are being forced to sing 'We wish you a Happy Holiday' to the tune of 'We wish you a Merry Christmas',yet having other symbols such as crescents for Ramadan and Diwali-related symbols.I think it'd be fine if different symbols were put up,as long as it's not leaving anything to do with Christmas out.
2006-12-19 08:52:03 · answer #2 · answered by Serena 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
White small minded pc lunatics? Dang!
Christmas is the celebration of our Lord and Saviors birth (no I am not saying HE was born on Dec 25th). A winter festival is whatever makes you festive in the winter. Yule or Mid-Winter is the Germanic pagan high blessing that falls around Dec 21st and carries on into January. Christmas is Christian with absorbed Yuletide customs, i.e., Yule tree, yule log, Sinter Klaus, etc.
Call it the way you celebrate it. I choose to celebrate Christ and teach His principals of selfishness and sacrifice to my children through gift giving.
Merry Christmas!
2006-12-19 08:51:08 · answer #3 · answered by Goober W 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have no problem with either. It really depends upon who's sponsoring the festival and who is invited. A Christmas festival would be limited to Christians and those non-Christians who celebrate the secular aspects of Christmas. Winter festival would be more inclusive, including Jews who celebrate Chanukah, Neopagans who celebrate Yule or Winter Solstice, Humanists who celebrate HumanLight, and others. If you live in an area where one or more of these minority religions have a sizable population, calling it a Christmas festival would seem to imply that they're not particularly welcome.
If you were a Christian and saw an advertisement for a Chanukah Festival in the newspaper, would you presume that you're welcome? Think about it.
2006-12-19 08:39:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm an American who grew up Christian, now atheist, middle class, college grad, white, and I don't mind people calling it a Christmas festival/Christmas celebration, etc. However I think it is better for everyone if its called a Holiday festival. There are so many holidays being celebrated this time of year that its selfish to focus a town-sponsored public festival only on one of them, for example the Christmas parade should be a holiday parade I think. Then you can have floats from different religions. I don't see anything wrong with churches having Christmas festivals though.
2006-12-19 08:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Winter Festival cam out ot nowhere, like all PC crap. It is a fabrication fo weak minds who have no knowledge or respect for history. I am an atheist, and if there can be ramadan and hannukah, why the hell not Christmas?
2006-12-19 10:00:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
lets just get one thing clear here
christmas is a celebration of the birth of jesus christ
and any christian would see past the superficial activities that go with christmas as we know it, whilst it is used as an excuse to swap presents get filthy fat and drink like no othertime of the year, the underlying fact is we are celebrating the birth of our saviour jesus christ
when all other religions in england stop calling their activities by their name and it fits into the so called multi cultural rules of great britain, then and only then would it be ok in britain to call christmas something else, but to me its christmas day the birthday of jesus.
2006-12-19 08:50:51 · answer #7 · answered by ploppy pants 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, i'm sufficiently eloquent that i'm able to insult human beings regardless of what rules others would make. some human beings understand that being eloquent is an paintings, and it helps people who're eloquent to the two compliment and insult others at will. (besides the actuality that, why would you opt directly to deliver those compliments or insults at Will?)
2016-12-15 04:26:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm soooo tired of all the debates about Christmas and what is PC and what is not. I personally don't think anyone should shove religion down anyones throats. Having said that, you can easily celebrate Christmas without bringing an ounce of religion into it. There is nothing religious about Santa Claus, Reindeer, Frosty The Snowman, etc. Just let it be about spending time with friends and family, exchanging gifts, etc. As long as you're not being too holy about it, I don't think it should offend any one.
2006-12-19 08:40:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I call it Christmas, Winter Festival sounds like an art-show not a holiday. If you don't celebrate Christmas, that's fine, I won't make you call it Christmas if you don't make me call it Secular Non-Personal Non-Birthday Gift Giving Day #316.
2006-12-19 08:38:53 · answer #10 · answered by Draco Paladin 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christmas will always be Christmas for me. I would never force my Christian views on anybody & I don't expect people of other faiths to join in the religious aspect of my celebration of Christmas, just to respect it. Followers of various faiths should be careful to emphasise that people of other faiths are welcome to join their celebrations if this is the case. Happy Christmas, everybody & let's all hope & pray for peace in 2007.
2006-12-19 08:59:56 · answer #11 · answered by Caro 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋