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Originally Posted by jorgelito
trickyy:
That was indeed a most hilarious episode. I think it was the "Winter Festival". Anyways, as usual Sheila made some fuss and by the time it was over, it was so stripped down that it was ridiculous to no end. Turns out the only thing that was acceptable in the school play were snowflakes and the new "winter" music composed by Philip Glass. Hilarious. But funny, funny stuff.
An excellent example of what I was trying to illustrate. I don't think saying "Merry Christmas" to someone should be seen as some sort of Christian conspiracy to supress blacks, Jews , Hindus and what not. Sometimes a rose is just a rose. It's all getting out of hand. Poor kids.
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i think part of the problem is that for those of us that are not christian, we are innundated with christmas from thanksgiving until the holiday itself. people don't stop to think 'hey, he might not be christian.' so when i go into a store near the holiday and someone says it to me, i say it back, but i do it out of an attempt to be polite. and it's really fucking annoying, really fast.
also, and this is my big thing, same with a few other people i know, what pisses us off is that most of the build up is just for the commercialization of the holiday. and that's super-duper-annoying.
some people are going overboard with the 'lets not put stuff up cause we might get sued' but i think that's much fewer and far betweener than it's made out to be. people generally complain when it's purely christmas stuff being put up and paid for by govt. funds while the other holidays going on are ignored or given mere lip-service. but i really think it's mainly a vocal minority rather than a widespread phenominon.