To say something about religious nativity play?

[JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff]

The DC go to a private day nursery. It doesn't have a religious affiliation. It was their Christmas play today. They did a loose version of the nativity and then at the end, there was a bit of recitation - "and that baby Jesus grew up to do amazing miracles. He died to save all the people in the world. Christians believe he came back from the dead and everyone who finds Jesus will be happy."

Dd who is under 4 is now asking "what does it mean, Jesus died?" And "should we go and look for Jesus?"

Aibu to mention to nursery management that this has resulted in some awkward conversations and maybe next year, they could choose something non-religious, bearing in mind lots of the families that use the nursery aren't believing Christians?

We is explaining about death so difficult.We have talked about it since dd was very little and went to relatives funerals.At first it meant very little to her but as she has got older she began to accept it as a sad fact of life.
As for the Nativity the non-religious rubbish that passed as a Christmas story in primary school used to annoy me.Give me little children dresses in tinsel halos and tea towel shepherds any day.

Personally I get a bit offended with people who don't want the nativity.
If your not Christian I support you and you have a right to chose, but then don't celebrate Christmas.
If you are celebrating Christmas, that's great just remember you are celebrating the birth of christ.
I was super glad to to see my dd school still does the nativity. I hate when school announce they don't celebrate any religious festivals and don't put a nativity on but yet the school is full of tinssle and Christmas tress.

I think the original druids would fit the social control idea.
Wicca doesn't. It's a reaction against organised religion. You never know though, it could be adopted as a method of social control too. Particularly in a post eco disaster age.

Snooky - Christmas means different things to different people. We celebrate Christmas as extra time with family and friends, time off work, special food and drinks, parties and presents. We don’t celebrate Christmas as the birth of Christ, as we don’t believe that.

I agree that Christianity seems to get knocked these days. Strange when you consider the problems with other religions.

About knowing your place, about obeying and respecting those who Great Pumpkin has chosen as special, etc? You do have a very bitter outlook on life Reanimated Chill out and have a happy Christmas

Bullshit.

Nobody actually thinks this.

YABU / RIDICULOUS

Another vote for the primary school. What they did was absolutely fine. Not OTT at all.

Birds, they are all bullshit and all attract violent, dangerous wingnuts

You could say the same about anything that involves people... Atheist politicians have been more responsible for more deaths in the last 100 years than any religious ones (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kims etc).... doesn’t mean atheism or politics is wrong!

If your not Christian I support you and you have a right to chose, but then don't celebrate Christmas.

Here we go again

Most of the "Christmas" traditions that non-Christians indulge in (feasting, gift exchange, gathering with friends and family, decorating your home) are diddly-squat to do within Christianity and happened at this time of year long before Jesus was allegedly born. They were originally pagan customs that Christianity engulfed as part of its evangelicalism and are nothing to do with your religion.

So, if you're going to take a hard line and say non-Christians shouldn't be allowed to celebrate, then I'd ask you to keep your mitts off of the non-Christian elements of the season and just sit around saying how great Jesus was. You can have your advent calendars and we can litigate ownership of Santa.

It's what the story is about. Are you being serious?

It's been covered a few times; OP meant 'religious nursery play'.

Atheist politicians have been more responsible for more deaths in the last 100 years than any religious ones (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kims etc)

Hitler was a Christian.

Hitler was a Christian.
No, he wasn't. He was a vocal critic of Christianity and was probably non-religious.

Hitler was baptized, confirmed, and later claimed to be a Christian in his book Mein Kampf, and referenced his Christianity in numerous documented speeches.
Nevertheless he did have issues with the church as an organization, moreso as his career progressed.

Blah blah blah . It’s Christmas FFS

Hitler’s religious views were ambivalent and unclear.... but even if he is removed from the list, atheist leaders have led the way in genocide and mass-murder over the past century.

Ironically, combined they don't come close to the terror and genocide delivered by the god of the Bible.

Indeed. Horrible fella by all accounts.

We have nearly 50% Muslims at my DC's school, their parents would probably gently tell a wingnut vicar to fuck off.
Better than being told that all Christians should be beheaded.

None of the Muslims I know think like that, in fact none of them in the school do, no Muslim parents have ever opted their children out of the nativity play or Christmas concert, or assemblies or church visit.

What other kind of Nativity can there be other than a religious one? Anything else is simply a school play.

Cancel the cheque.

What other kind of Nativity can there be other than a religious one?
The normal kind without preachy asides to audience taking a stand about the truth value of what they've been watching. 6/7 of the ones my kids were involved in were preach-free so it's not exactly radical.