Where has Christmas gone
Posted by: Mustang17
27th Nov 2010 06:58am
The Child Centre where my daughter-in-law works will not be celebrating Christmas with the children as there are families who attend who dont believe in it. Last time I checked this was Australia and I grew up going to school and making Christmas gifts and easter bonnets as a way of life.
To me this is a tradition of the Australian way of life which we now have to change for a minority. It's not like we would go to their country of origin and demand that they celebrate our way of life.
VivK
- 19th Dec 2010 01:31pm
The trouble with all this is that most of our Christmas celebrations do not offend anyone - if you were to ask a Muslim or any other person who does not celebrate Christmas - "are you offended by our traditions?" - almost all answer that it does not bother them and they are happy for us to have our traditions. There are only a small minority and mainly atheists - not other religions, who dont like this celebration - but Im sure they like having a holiday though!
I am happy for everyone to do what they want to do for Christmas but dont ruin it just because a few people are offended. What happened to majority rules? Surely the majority are in favour of the Christmas traditions. I never pushed the Santa thing on my kids as I felt it detracted from the true meaning of Christmas but I wouldnt go around telling little kids "there is no such thing as Santa".
How about the motto "Live and let live"
Happy Christmas everyone!
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