Winter Holiday? Options

[DisneyPrincessKa...]

Around here places are no longer selling Christmas trees. They are selling Holiday trees instead. People refrain from using the term Christmas tree for fear of offending those who do not celebrate Christmas. I am unaware of any holiday during december that uses a Christmas tree, so why do we need to change the name?

Now, Christmas is the most main stread holiday out there. Not everyone celebrates it, but it is very highly advertised. If it is such a popular holiday why must the media deny it's meaning? It celebrates the birth of Christ, however people often dance around that because they do not want to offend others.

Should there be a new holiday for buying presents, one that has no religious ties? Or should Chirstmas be Christmas and not "The Winter Holiday"? I'd especially like to hear from those of you who do not celebrate Christmas.

[HuGzNKissEs]

I had to laugh at that. Is that what you truly think? That Christians have "few" rights? If so, then non-Christians have no rights at all base on your scale of what is "few". For example, "schools observe Christian holidays but not Muslim, Jewish, Hindu... etc holidays. Test won't be given on Christian holidays (mostly because we're conveniently out of school), yet it is not taken into consideration that exams are given during the holidays of other religions. So, Christians get a perk at the "expense" of other religions. I don't think that's fair either, but it seems that's the way this society works, right? Winners and losers. You can't win all the time." [by me in a similar thread]

Oh is that right? schools observe Christian holidays?? Actually my school refers to them as "winter" holidays. & we are out of school throughout the days of Haunnakah(sp?) as well. We have school on Ash Wednesday even though it's a holy day of obligation. Our vacation which falls during the Christian holiday of Easter is called "spring break" And we have school on Holy Thursday, which is also a church day for my family.

[Spirited Away]

Oh is that right? schools observe Christian holidays??  Actually my school refers to them as "winter" holidays.  & we are out of school throughout the days of Haunnakah(sp?) as well.  We have school on Ash Wednesday even though it's a holy day of obligation.  Our vacation which falls during the Christian holiday of Easter is called "spring break" And we have school on Holy Thursday, which is also a church day for my family.

How much of my post did you really read? Are you telling me that you're given TESTS/EXAMS on Christian holidays? For your information, and you can easily research this, examinations were given on the celebration of Eid al-Fitr, one of the two most important Islamic holiday that is observed at the end of Ramadan, at the University of Houston-Main campus. My best friend, and others, had no choice but to skip this celebration to take an exam that had no make up date. Are you telling me that this happens to Christians? Has a Christian ever had to make a decision to take a test on Christmas or not?

They are appropriately called the Winter Holidays because that is a historical fact. As a Christian you should know the history of Christmas like the back of your hand, so do not be surpprised that schools are adopting a more historically correct , albeit more secular terminology.

And last, but not least, why can't a spring break be called spring break? The University of Houston's spring vacations falls in March. Easter is still Easter to those who wish to celebrate it. About your school district, at least you are able to get out for a week before your religion's holiday. Can you tell me which schools allow this for, oh, lets say Jews, Muslims or Hindus?