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.

[nocoolnamesleft]

At my local hospital, the kids' Xmas party is always booked for when one particular consultant is free to be Santa. He's Muslim.

[Ericaequites]

Because my old school gave up the lovely tradition of Vespers with a Nativity and High Church Carols for Lumina. They wear white sweaters for that multicultural nonsense which aren't practical, nor appropriate in winter. In my day, white sweaters were it permitted uniform.
In short:change is not improvement. It's just change.

[Toadinthehole]

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.

Bollocks. Whatever "Christmas" might have been one and a half millenia ago has absolutely no relevance now. And it is true to say that Christmas has become a big consumerfest. One doesn't have to be religious to miss the religious element of Christmas, something which has only vanished in the last decade or two. Modern Christmas is rubbish.

[SoupDragon]

Modern Christmas is rubbish.

Only if you let it be rubbish.

[TooSensitive]

There is a nativity at our school as there are assemblies for all the other big religious festivals (eid, hanukkah, diwali). Each is performed by different year groups.

There is also an evening ks2 concert in December which used to be called the Christmas concert. Due to pressure from parents it is now called the Winter concert and the songs sung can have no religious reference within them. So the word Christmas can't be sung - also others such as Jesus etc...

Not sure how I feel about this. Seems a little ott.

Don't think Xmas has been banned though wish it were banned in TV adverts and in shops in September

[BackOnlyBriefly]

Bollocks. Whatever "Christmas" might have been one and a half millenia ago has absolutely no relevance now

but Christians are a minority now of the people who celebrate Christmas so we could equally say "Whatever Christmas might have been 50 years ago has absolutely no relevance now"

Christians slapped a christmas label on the existing winter festival back when they had the power to do what they wanted. Now they don't have that power and that's just tough.