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.

[*disco infiltrator*]

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.

Yea, um, we don't. We go back on the last day of Hannukah. This is the first year I have ever gotten off for that many days of Hannukah, not counting weekends. Do the students in your school get off for Ramadan?

Oh, and go to your school and tell them you didn't come to school because it was Ash Wednesday. You will be completely excused, and have a day to make up your assignements, no questions asked.

I, however, have tried getting off for Rosh Hashana (which I had an exam on, by the way) at my school, but they said no. I would have been counted as absent and I wouldn't be able to make up my exam, because it was a final. Hence, I was forced to skip attending services at the local temple with my mother and sister. (She's in middle school; she doesn't have finals, so she just skipped.)

How in the world is this fair? I don't know WHERE you get the idea that Christians are at all limited in their influence and rights in this country, but you should try being in a non-Christian's shoes for once. Your perception would differ so greatly it would knock you out of said shoes.