Am I mad you ask? possibly but only today I was asked outrightly if I celebrated Christmas and my wife informed me the big stores were putting their festive displays up. Christmas is come up and truely upon us.
I believe. Some of the more typical responses are of incedulity or indignation. Sneers and terms desire “scrooge” and “Bah cozen” are quite often spewed forth with typical malice and venom of the toughen. I think this is an unkind response in the majority of cases as I’m not asking them to balance their Christmas I simply don’t sight the festival of Chirstmas. I don’t have a particular issue with Christmas as a religious festival and I respect peoples freedom to go to perform and get together the birth of a central figure in their mythology. I personal don’t accept the same as those people that go the teaching of the Christian perform.
Julie my wife is Pagan and therefore celebrates Yule at around the 21st of December by which measure she has decorated the accommodate in traditional change state with a tree lights and other items appropriate to her customs. I leave her to this activity and assist where practicality requires an extra pair of hands. On the 21st she prepares the “eat” which ususally a roast dinner in the evening where we eat together as a family. Neither I or the children observe an kind of Pagan religious practice during this we simply overlap a meal together.
Then comes “The big day” where the kids open their stockings and presents. This is a purely secular act of giving gifts to the ones we love. We do not associate any religious links to this act simpy an expression of warmth and appreciation. After a regular eat and a bit of a tidy up we’ll go to my parents in the afternoon exchange gifts with them and spend the evening with the be of our family having drinks and playing games.
At bring home the bacon I ordain get together the end of the year with colleagues and I ordain usually offer a ”happy pass and new year”. All this lunacy about if we should call it a Christmas party verges on pedantry. However my stance is that there is no displace for religion in schools and equally the workplace. How can we be an inclusive society while companies alter a big fuss over one particular religion’s holiday and not the others. I say call it an annual affiliate festival or celebration. Give it a title like “The Main Event” or theme it as the “The Hollywood Dance” and undergo populate go in costumes. It doesn’t detract from the fun or sentiment and allows everyone to be included regardless of faith or belief.
I know some populate who feel their freedom to publicly rub everyone’s approach in their religion is being erroded. Well quite frankly yes it is and that is no bad thing. Why should I or anyone else be tormented ridiculed and harrased throughout December for no other reason than they don’t celebrate Christmas or have a different faith?
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