Christmas Censors Are Out In Force

[WanderAimlessly]

I would like to ask everyone here something:

Were Jews or Muslims really responsible for the secular progressive’s efforts to ban us from celebrating Christmas? I think the atheists were just using them for THEIR religious indoctrination!

My opinion. Humanists using the faith of everyone against everyone else. As long as people of faith are fighting against each other then they are not fighting the PC humanists.

Secular Relativism of the Humanist is only an extension of Marxism. Their tactics are for only one goal. The elimination of religion as a whole. This means we have to only only oppose it, but work for its utter destruction as a force in society.

 

[system]

Well, yes - there are definitely forces working as hard as possible not to offend this crowd, or that crowd, but they end being a little nonsensical. My wife works in a school district where there is not only no mention of ANY religion, there’s no mention that it is even winter! So the kids can’t even sing a song about a snow day! or winter wonderland! It’s ridiculous!

On the other side of the coin, I’m taking the wife and kids up to NYC before Christmas and guess what? Radio City Music Hall STILL calls their show a “Christmas Show” and they have have lovely and respectable nativity scene under a bright star, 3 kings bringing gifts etc. (no Rockettes high kicking - it’s reverent)

The school district my kids go to allows Christmas songs, and they also intersperse a couple Chanukkah songs and sing about Peace in 15 languages or something like that. There’s even a mention in the narrator’s part of a Hindu holiday that already happened in October. I know the music teachers there and I think they’re doing the best thing possible to present “the holidays” without getting sued.

 

[Cobbfmly]

I am not going to shop in any store this year that does not use the word Christmas.

So this year for our pets Pet Smart, Pet Co and Pet Supply “PLUS” are out. Lucky for me I can get what I need for the pets and animals at the local farm store. Some of the on line pet shops are ok also. OK I know it is the Holidays but Christmas is one of them.

Went to Target for candles (Advent colors) they had them for all the other seasonal celebrations but none for Advent. And no they had not just sold them all. They never had them in the first place.

I have always found advent candles hard to find. I suspect there is not enough demand for many stores to carry them.

 

[KathleenElsie]

I have always found advent candles hard to find. I suspect there is not enough demand for many stores to carry them.

What is so hard about keeping pink and purple tapers with all the other colors?

 

[MusicMan]

I teach in a band public high school. We do a Holiday Concert every year not because anyone has a problem with us calling it a Christmas Concert, but because I like to program some non-Christmas standard band literature on the program.

I also try every year to include a non-Christmas, sacred piece each year. Last year was Salvation is Created from the Russian Orthodox Church, and the year before was a Bach prelude and fugue.

This year, we are performing *The Marian Symphony *by a composer named Joel Blahnik. It derives its themes from the Marian hymns Hail, Holy Queen and Immaculate Mary. The second movement is Gregorian Chant, with a harmonized accompaniment. Lyrics are included for the Salve Mater. Our principal, a phenomenal tenor, is singing the cantor part.

The third movement depicts the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, complete with effects depicting Christ’s march to Golgotha, the nails being driven in, and His mother wailing at his feet (this effect is done by glissandi in the trombones. The trombones love getting to work on this piece). The movement ends with a brief setting of His resurrection, utilizing the end of Hail, Holy Queen. The finale weaves together the two hymns.

It is a powerful Symphony, and I am looking forward to performing it.

Did I mention that I teach in a public high school?

 

[NewUlm1976_2000]

The Catholic League is misrepresenting this. It does not matter where Christmas is or is not publically shown. The only true place for it is in our hearts for the holiday season. If we keep Christmas there to help live out the season, it does not matter what the rest of the world does.