to wonder why people think that Christmas has been "banned"?

[queenoftheknight]

Why do people say that Christmas has been banned, when it quite clearly has not? There are Christmas trees and lights in every town centre and the shops are full of Christmas stuff.

Why, do people believe a myth, rather than what they can actually see? Or do they somehow, not connect the two experiences?

This baffles me, every year.

*woman

londonrach

It doesn't feel like xmas yet because it isn't. There are a couple of weeks yet.

Shadowy cartel of Muslamics...HA HA HA HA!

The three primary schools I have had dc's at all did nativities, although only one was a C of E school. In fact, the Easter celebrations used to make me laugh there, as the church would quite innocently be full of chickens and eggs and all manner of pre Christian symbolism. :)

.....but ive only just had my summer holiday so xmas is three months away...

Yanbu- this has been all over my Facebook today. Its anti-white ukip nazi bollocks.
Horrible undertones.

Everyone should do what I do! I celebrate every single thing, regardless of religion or lack thereof. A good year, I can do Eid, Christmas, Hanukkah and Easter. I normally miss Diwali but if anyone wants to invite me, I'm coming. The more fun, food and lights there are in the world, the more I like it.

Atheists like Christmas carols too you know...

Yes, it is like "elf and safety" banning outlawing everything, and the "eec" (sic) banning curved bananas. Ha ha ha ha ha! And it is IMPOSSIBLE to get through to them!

We'll I haven't heard any mentioned of it being banned, probably because I'm not on Facebook anymore and only read sensible news stories online.

But I think that when we have weather not pertaining to a 'traditional' Christmas , people don't really feel very Christmassy. So from the ground I have to say it doesn't really feel like we have two weeks to go, but I suspect if I were working or at school I would be feeling a lot more festive.

Even lovely MIL liked some shitty I believe in a white Christmas doodaa. I dont think she has any idea

There's a thicky on my Facebook spouting this shit. This has reminded me to de friend her

Last Christmas a customer at work..with dare I say it 'dusky skin'

Because they are xenophobic bucketheads - the sort of people who think that white Christians are now a 'persecuted minority' and scream about 'political correctness gone mad' when they get pulled up for calling someone a mildly racist/sexist/homophobic name.

It's my job to buy the Christmas cards for DH's business. I am instructed not to buy:

(a) anything religious (I love doe-eyed Madonnas);
(B) anything that says other than Season's Greetings;
(c) anything with cute penguins on (my personal favourite, despite being a cradle Catholic)

He is a fucking heathen.

I buy snowy pictures of London for his business and send pictures of cuddly animals to my friends and family and something very religious to his mum and aunt - who I like very much, btw. It's just that I think they'd both appreciate the beauty even though they aren't religious.

Neither am I.

It's the second Christmas since I lost my mum. I dug the cards out today and thought: 'Oh, God. She'd really like that monkey-with-a-snowball photo.'

Of course Christmas isn't banned! But I do think it's becoming increasingly disconnected from the birth of Christ.

I am agnostic, (I think...) so have no axe to grind. But I was in Asda today and needed some Xmas cards, and noticed that NONE of them depicted any biblical scenes. No Nativity, no Madonna, zero 3 wise men.

Maybe M & S or "Naicer" stores have a more traditional selection?

I am on Facebook but have not heard about Christmas being banned. Why are people saying this at all. Confused.

Because they're idiots and intellectually stunted.

They're the same dipshits who think that 'blacks and pakis' are taking over Britain and there's only 'poles' where they live

7% different races in Britain. Ffs.

Because if the majority can feel oppressed or hard done by, it gives their zealousness a cause.

Society has a stupid little game that people play called "The person with the biggest wound gets to make the most ludicrous statement unchallenged".

So if the majority can find reason to be wounded about Christmas, it gives their opinion that we should only allow Christmas more "credibility". They're not being racist, they're being oppressed.

Mind you, people whining about the lack of Christianity in people-actually-celebrating-Christmas are equally fucking dim, really. Christmas is just the current name in most of Europe for a longstanding traditional festival of lights and food in the middle of winter.

(My as-yet-unbeaten winner of the Sinister Leftwing Forriners Ban Xmas award is the mum of one ofDS' classmates, a few years ago.
Outside the school gates, we are waitingfor our DC. She says 'It's a shame they never do no Nativity play these days.' I look at her a bit blankly.
She says, 'I like a nativity play and you never see them any more.'
I look a bit more blank, struggling to find the right words or at least something other than 'What the fuck is wrong with you, you maniac?' and settle for saying 'But weren't you at the play just now?'
I (and other familiies) had literally just left the school hall after a production of 'Whoopsadaisy Angel'.

I have never heard of anybody who thinks Christmas is banned either.

SGB that is brilliant. I wish I had been there

SGB...HA HA HA HA HA HA! What was her response?

That is EXACTLY the kind of thing I mean! I don't feel so much as if I have landed here from another planet after reading these responses....THANK YOU!

I spend too much time utterly baffled by people who don't seem to have even the most basic understanding of what is going on. It scares me.

MrsTerryPratchett

Versaki is quite big where I am, lots of dancing and food, even a fun fair

The London borough I live in has a large Muslim and Hindu population. My local high street has a glorious Xmas tree and a massive "Merry Christmas" up in lights