Christmas

I've just come home from an end of year presentation that was conducted at the school that my two youngest children attend and I really enjoyed it. My youngest got a class award for working hard and actively participating in all class activities and putting in an enormous effort. She's 6 and she was picked out of her whole class and I was so fucking proud. Her teacher started crying while she was talking about Cheyenne and it was lovely that my girl was going to be missed by someone that had 30 odd other students under her care.

The day was ended with the school singing Christmas carols and there was a Christmas tree and the kids sang about the birth of Christ and loving God and even though I'm not a religious person, it was beautiful to hear and all I could see were a sea of innocent faces putting everything they had into these songs and there was hardly a dry eye in the place by the time they were done.

It's a damn shame that less and less schools are doing it because of the whole religion aspect and it sickens me that by the time I'm a grandparent, there may well not be a Christmas anymore. At all. Ever.

So here it is.

My country was primarily founded on Christian and Catholic beliefs and we celebrate Christmas. We have been doing the Christmas thing for centuries. If you're a muslim and you don't like the fact that my country celebrates Christmas then fuck off back to your own country. Same with you people that don't believe that Jesus has been here once already, and any other religion that doesn't recognise God or Jesus.

How dare a small group of people wreck it for everyone else and shame on the Governments who pander to these fuckwits who think they're doing everyone a world of good. I didn't ask for anything to change, and a whole bunch of other people that I've spoken to didn't ask for these changes either. One of the highlights of every Christmas for me is watching cartoons with my girls. Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. They're all going to disappear.

You don't see me over in the Middle East telling them their Koran and Allah are a bunch of shit, you don't see me burning kippots or shitting on Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. So why the hell are you in my country telling me what I can or can't celebrate. Can you imagine not being able to show your kids the Christmas lights and decorations in your town/suburb/city? What are future generations going to have to look forward to?

We're told that we're supposed to be more tolerant and embrace diversity, no matter its shape or form, so why aren't these people that are telling us this shit being more tolerant of traditions that are already in place?

Posted By: Lint | 05:27 AM | Lint

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