Instead of simply telling the kids “Sure put up decorations from whichever tradition you’d like” and letting them have at it, we must remove it all. Complete idiots.

I like the comment “I just wish that we could give as much attention to eradicating drugs from our schools as we do to eradicating Christmas wreaths.”

‘Nuff said.

Context, or naming that other piece, would have helped me understand. I hear anger in words like “At what point did the desires of a few dictate what the vast majority wished to do? Whenever that was, we passed it and now, we’re so politically correct that we’re no longer a melting pot of Americans; we’re a restricted menu of food in plates divided so nothing can touch anything else.”

It goes contrary to my experience.

Last year I noticed a few people saying “Merry Christmas” with a real edge on it, and the greeting seems angry rather than pleasant. I think it arises, though, out of sentiments like Mamcita expresses.

Agreeing to disagree,
Susan

I figure that, if my family’s beliefs are sincere, we will take our kids to church, to religious instruction and discuss what we believe at home. We do that. We send them to school in the hopes that they will learn things we don’t know/can’t teach them.

It also gives us new things to talk about at the dinner table.

If they aren’t exposed to new things, it reallly kind of defeats the purpose of sending them to an educational system.

Jane

P.S. I remember as child my mom greeting people with a Merry Christmas. It seemed to make the season brighter.

You, for instance.

Have a nice day, Susan. I hope you’re doing well.

Now, blow a gasket. That was nervy of me to say that to you.

People just need to lighten up and enjoy the season instead of making a federal case out of everything. I miss America too…when I go most other places. But it is alive and well here..deep in the heart of Texas. Merry Christmas, Jane!

And may your heart be filled with the love the season brings to those who are willing to accept it.