Eid and diwali festival

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my four year old son’s school is celebrating eid and diwali to introduce the kids to the importance of cultural and religious festivals,
i have told my wife that under no circumstances will he be attending this feast as it is not christian, am i over reacting? what are your thoughts?
 
Not at all!! If it is not Christian than I wouldn’t send mine either.

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Kathleen
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cainem:
my four year old son’s school is celebrating eid and diwali to introduce the kids to the importance of cultural and religious festivals,
i have told my wife that under no circumstances will he be attending this feast as it is not christian, am i over reacting? what are your thoughts?
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cainem:
my four year old son’s school is celebrating eid and diwali to introduce the kids to the importance of cultural and religious festivals,
i have told my wife that under no circumstances will he be attending this feast as it is not christian, am i over reacting? what are your thoughts?
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I assume these are pagan festivals? (I’ve never heard of "eid and diwali). If they are pagan, then you have every right to keep him from participating and you should complain to the school administration about it because if they won’t celebrate Halloween or Christmas or Easter because they are Christian then they shouldn’t be celebrating any religious festival no matter what it is or whose it is.
 
i think they are islamic festivals, no they did not celebrate the easter festival, unless painting boiled eggs count, he will be attending a catholic primary next year but unfortunately there is no catholic nursery
 
call the ACLU immediately and have them take action against your school administrators for setting up an established religion in the classrooms.
 
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cainem:
don’t have them here im in scotland
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Still, complain loud and long about this imposing of religious festivals on your child from other religions. There are other ways of learning about world religions besides celebrating their festivals. How would the Protestant parents feel if the school brought in a Catholic priest and made everyone attend Mass? Or, why not have everyone strip naked and paint themselves blue to recall Scotlands past? :rolleyes: You have every right to object and to keep your child from participating.
 
EID is an Islamic Festival and DIWALI is a Festival based
on Hindu Mythology.
Diwali is Festival of Lights signifying victory of Good
over Evil.
While a Catholic needs to be aware of his identity
there is no harm in reaching out to other religions
as long as these festivals are treated in correct perspective
If you are in a Christian Only area then it would be possible
to shut yourself out from outside and be concerned with
only Catholic festivals
But the world today is being integrated and one can not
remain an Island any longer and shut ones eyes to
people around.
Some one who gorws up in a multi religious environment
will better appreciate the need to integrate across religious
boundaries.
Every one is God’s Child and created in God’s Image
So one needs to respect other openions and faiths even while
we may not agree. If a festival does not involve religious
rituals other than catholic it may be Ok to feel one with
ones Hindu Brethern
In any case I would say Diwali is 100 times better than
Halloween
 
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cmgeo:
EID is an Islamic Festival and DIWALI is a Festival based
on Hindu Mythology.
Diwali is Festival of Lights signifying victory of Good
over Evil.
While a Catholic needs to be aware of his identity
there is no harm in reaching out to other religions
as long as these festivals are treated in correct perspective
If you are in a Christian Only area then it would be possible
to shut yourself out from outside and be concerned with
only Catholic festivals
But the world today is being integrated and one can not
remain an Island any longer and shut ones eyes to
people around.
Some one who gorws up in a multi religious environment
will better appreciate the need to integrate across religious
boundaries.
Every one is God’s Child and created in God’s Image
So one needs to respect other openions and faiths even while
we may not agree. If a festival does not involve religious
rituals other than catholic it may be Ok to feel one with
ones Hindu Brethern
In any case I would say Diwali is 100 times better than
Halloween
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I agree it’s fine for children to learn about other religions and their celebrations, but it is quite another thing for schools to impose celebrating religious festivals on children not of that faith, no matter whose faith we are talking about.
 
IMHO - I know I am going to get beatup for this but…

I am a cradle Catholic, I grew up in India so was exposed to both these festivals. So I see nothing wrong in participating and learning about other cultures. I am assuming this is only to teach kids about different religions. Not making you follow them.

Eid is a Muslim festival. The Muslims fast for 40 days from dawn to dusk (eating only before sunrise and after sunset) and at the end of the 40 days they celebrate. It has its origin with Mohamad having had to go hungry in the desert.

Diwali is a Hindu festival of lights. The Hindus exchange sweets, dryfruit, … and they light firecrackers and oil lamps. (oh no if this was forbidden, we would have had to throw out all those sweets that our Hindu neighbours sent us at Diwali and hopefully they did not throw out the Christmas sweets we sent them)

Also both these days were public holidays for us, so…
In fact we did not have March break, but instead 3 weeks Diwali holidays from school in Oct ( and I went to a Catholic school and university)

Right now my son is not in a catholic school ( will be switching in 2 years, long story.). However I have made it a point to educate him about the various religions and cultures of the world. Of course, he also knows a lot about being Catholic and our own religion.
 
Since the poster said the school is celebrating those festivals, it is wrong for a Catholic to participate. It is a sin against Faith.

Learning about another culture and its religion is vastly different than celebrating it. A Catholic should only learn such things to show where the other culture is right and wrong in comparision to the True Faith, not to be accepting of it. A public school would obviously not be teaching those differences from the correct perspective.
 
one must naturally place a blue dot (available at any K-mart store) in the center of one’s navel and do the kuchipudi dance, but whatever you do, please don’t try to read the Kama Sutra while balancing lit candles in each of your hands. :eek:
 
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Gwyn:
IMHO - I know I am going to get beatup for this but…

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Eid is a Muslim festival. The Muslims fast for 40 days from dawn to dusk (eating only before sunrise and after sunset) and at the end of the 40 days they celebrate. It has its origin with Mohamad having had to go hungry in the desert.

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Minor quibble–the fasting month of Ramadan is 29 days long (from new moon to new moon), not 40.

DaveBj
 
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DaveBj:
Minor quibble–the fasting month of Ramadan is 29 days long (from new moon to new moon), not 40.

DaveBj
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Oops - Error on my part. Thanks for pointing out.
 
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Tibbar:
one must naturally place a blue dot (available at any K-mart store) in the center of one’s navel and do the kuchipudi dance, but whatever you do, please don’t try to read the Kama Sutra while balancing lit candles in each of your hands. :eek:
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omigawd…good thing a poor clutz like me is not expected to participate … and I can’t imagine that blue dot trying to stay on my stomach while I tried to dance…:rotfl:
 
Both are government holidays in India and I believe Indian schools are not celebrating them.

In Christ,
selvaraj
 
I can almost bet they aren’t celebrating Halloween to be culturally diverse either!
 
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cmgeo:
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Every one is God’s Child and created in God’s Image
So one needs to respect other openions and faiths even while
we may not agree. If a festival does not involve religious
rituals other than catholic it may be Ok to feel one with
ones Hindu Brethern

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The one thing we should not do is respect other religions which lead all their followers into eternal damnation.

This is tolerance.

Not acceptable.

Actually, TECHNICALLY, Islam is a branch off of Christianity, so…

lol.
 
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