Celebrating Xmas - Not Politically Correct?

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Funding withdrawn for Christmas lights and decorations in suffolk

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I would hate to see towns unable to actively celebrate traditional Christian festivals, just because we are becoming a more culturally diverse society.
Preserving "our ways" and traditions is as important IMO as accepting others

I just didn't understand why Christians took it so personally Batters!

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I read an interesting report recently that one hospital recently withdrew the Bibles they kept at the bedisdes for their patients. It was the Muslims who complained and asked for them to be reinstated.

I don't see the problem with it myself, and neither has anyone of another faith that I know from my circle of friends / colleagues!

Yes, The Lambeth debacle was started because a right-wing and notoriously tiresome councillor made a big song and dance about the fact that in his little corner of Lambeth a junior officer, no doubt thinking of the nov-march lights put 'winter lights' on a small publicity leaflet, instead of Xmas. Other 'town centres' are indeed calling theirs 'Christmas Lights' - or festive lights, and Lambeth have taken no decision at all to NOT call them Christmas lights!

They should call them the 'cheap and tawdry display' if you ask me.

But how the press loved it!

Here the shops pay towards the lights and they start off as happy diwali lights and then evolve with additions into Christmas lights

the purpose of the lights is to attract christmas shoppers and merry prosperity so theoreticslly they should be self funding

is lambeth a big shopping area

I work in a childrens department of a dental hospital, and last year we were asked to take our decorations down as it may offend patients of other religions.
We had been adding to them for years, they included moving singing snowmen going on a wire across the room,a santa climbing a chimney, whenever someone opened the door and a 6f inflateable homer dressed as father christmas.
The children loved it and people came from other parts of the hospital to see them.
We were so disappointed
Baa Humbug!!

The shops in Brixton contribute to the lights, I thnk, but in general it is the taxpayer who foots the bill here.
Actually, maybe that's why Brixton has slightly smarter lights than the other town centres.

Come to think of it, the reason they were called 'Winter Lights' was that they had got a job lot second hand and were a selection of chinese dragons, pumpkins, grubby snowmen and hammer and sickles.

Last year in Brixton, the lights looked like little dancing chilli peppers and cucumbers. How Christian is THAT?

Also, we have Festive Urinals in Lambeth!
Whenever a big public festivity is in the offing (including Saturday nights), a lorry comes round and unloads mobile urinals on to the pavement. They look like big plastic stalgmights (the ones that grow upwards), with little basins to wee into. No screening of any kind.

Then the next morning the lorry collects them all up again!