I was persecuted last night

[swamp]

I went to DS's school for the Christmas concert.

They called it a "Holiday Concert" and sang a Hanukkah song.

Should I write to the school board?

[zibazinski]

[rob base]

What did the jury decide? Do u have to go to jail?

Hopefully u got a lawyer. A lawyer that represents themself in a prosecution has a fool for a client.

[movingforward]

Yes, tell them they must hate Jesus like Starbucks

[swamp]

I had to suffer the abomination of a Hanukkah song in during the Christmas season.     This is a Christian nation, and it's the Christmas season, not the Holiday Season. This is America!!!!

[Gardening Grandma]

Well there's your proof there is ac"War on Christmas"!!!!

[NastyWoman]

Dec 7, 2016 10:44:55 GMT -5 swamp said:

I had to suffer the abomination of a Hanukkah song in during the Christmas season.     This is a Christian nation, and it's the Christmas season, not the Holiday Season. This is America!!!!

I was tempted to give a "fruity" answer but  . It's not the season to get everyone riled up 

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Bah humbug. 

A Christmas song for you:

Tis the season to spend money. Fa la la la la la la la la. 

[giramomma]

Which Hanukkah song?

I might give it a pass if they were singing Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song...

[Deleted]

Come to my area... The locals go out and cut down a giant live tree and place it in the elementary school's gym. It, like the rest of the school, is all decorated in Merry Christmas decoration. 

While having the Christmas celebration is fine in this public school, don't even think of mentioning the word "Halloween" because that is the devil's night. Here we celebrate the harvest. Um, okay...

And, while we are at it, let's not talk about the teacher who refused to teach anything about ancient history or things like dinosaurs, because the earth is very young and that's all hogwash. Wonder why that section on the state's standardized tests was so horrid for that school? 

Until I moved here in 2002, I had no idea there were still areas of the country where God rules the public school system and people think that's normal...

I'd hate to be Jewish or God forbid Muslim, in this area..

[flamingo]

This is NOT helping make America great again! 

[swamp]

Dec 7, 2016 10:58:24 GMT -5 giramomma said:

Which Hanukkah song?

I might give it a pass if they were singing Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song...

No, sadly it was something about lights and 8 days and all those reasons for Hannukah. How dare they teach about different cultures?

[swamp]

Dec 7, 2016 11:03:43 GMT -5 @workingshasta said:

Come to my area... The locals go out and cut down a giant live tree and place it in the elementary school's gym. It, like the rest of the school, is all decorated in Merry Christmas decoration. 

While having the Christmas celebration is fine in this public school, don't even think of mentioning the word "Halloween" because that is the devil's night. Here we celebrate the harvest. Um, okay...

And, while we are at it, let's not talk about the teacher who refused to teach anything about ancient history or things like dinosaurs, because the earth is very young and that's all hogwash. Wonder why that section on the state's standardized tests was so horrid for that school? 

Until I moved here in 2002, I had no idea there were still areas of the country where God rules the public school system and people think that's normal...

I'd hate to be Jewish or God forbid Muslim, in this area..

This thread is tongue in cheek, but this makes me go

[movingforward]

A few years ago my city started saying Holiday tree as opposed to Christmas tree.  I was sitting in Jiffy Lube waiting to have my oil changed and a TV was playing.  A local news station announced the Holiday Tree would be lit on X date and the woman sitting next to me started yelling at the TV "It is a Christmas tree.  It has always been a Christmas tree and it always will be a Christmas tree."  Uh, okay...I was completely shocked because I could not care less what they call it. 

I am okay with Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Have A Good Kwanzaa, whatever people want to say in good tidings.  People are so freaking uptight. 

[swamp]

I am okay with Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Have A Good Kwanzaa, whatever people want to say in good tidings. People are so freaking uptight.

I'm just happy that someone is saying something nice, rather than telling me to fuck off.   

[ken a.k.a OMK]

In college I belonged to an old fraternity founded by Jewish men in 1909. Our chapter was maybe 70% Jewish and 30% Christen. I'm a Christian. We'd put up a little tree. We'd call it  our Hanukkah bush.  I learned some good Yiddish there. 

[chen35]

The real persecution is sitting through a school aged choir concert. Not as bad as junior high band, though.

[Lizard Queen]

Yeah, I'm fine with including other religions, but it's a Christmas tree. Don't be stupid about it.

[Lizard Queen]

Dec 7, 2016 11:38:41 GMT -5 chen35 said:

The real persecution is sitting through a school aged choir concert. Not as bad as junior high band, though.

Check this one out:
www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2016/12/singing_christmas_tree_wows_so.html

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Tolerance is at an all-time low these days.

How dare someone infringe upon your Constituitional right to religious freedom by inserting their religion into your religious holiday celebrated with excessive consumerism, gluttony, greed, and intolerance and traditional lighted trees stolen from the Pagans and Druids?

[movingforward]

Dec 7, 2016 11:32:01 GMT -5 @sroo4 said:

Dec 7, 2016 11:22:53 GMT -5 movingforward said:

A few years ago my city started saying Holiday tree as opposed to Christmas tree.  I was sitting in Jiffy Lube waiting to have my oil changed and a TV was playing.  A local news station announced the Holiday Tree would be lit on X date and the woman sitting next to me started yelling at the TV "It is a Christmas tree.  It has always been a Christmas tree and it always will be a Christmas tree."  Uh, okay...I was completely shocked because I could not care less what they call it. 

I am okay with Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Have A Good Kwanzaa, whatever people want to say in good tidings.  People are so freaking uptight. 

I'm with you on this... but I kind of see the point of the lady with the tree.   It is a Christmas tree..  It's like me telling someone "Hey great holiday candlestick thingy you got there!" while admiring their Menorah 

If someone wants to wish me happy random religious observance even if it's not mine,  go for it.   

I agree it is a Christmas tree, and that is what I continue to call it, but her reaction was just over the top IMHO.  It may be stupid to call it a holiday tree instead of Christmas tree but do I care that much...no, no I don't

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Christmas trees aren't even Christian!   They are pagan!   A ton of the stuff people get their panties in a wad over have jack squat to do with Christianity.

Jesus wasn't even born in December according to analysis of the bible and historical data.   He was born in late September.    Early Christians adapted the story to already existing  pagan traditions in order to make it more appealing for pagans to convert.

So people are getting bent out of shape about a "War on Christians" when in reality it is a "War on Pagans"

::head explodes::

[NoNamePerson]

Dec 7, 2016 11:24:02 GMT -5 swamp said:

I am okay with Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Have A Good Kwanzaa, whatever people want to say in good tidings. People are so freaking uptight.

I'm just happy that someone is saying something nice, rather than telling me to fuck off.   

They probably didn't dare tell someone carrying a big whip wearing leather to fuck off.   

[alabamagal]

I grew up in an area with a fairly large Jewish population. We had Christmas and hanakkah songs I survived.

In elementary school I wanted to be Jewish. The whole school was off for Christian holidays but the Jewish kids were also off for Jewish holidays. Plus those 7 days of getting presents for Hanakkah.

[movingforward]

I vote we all just get a winter break where business shut down for 2 weeks .  That would cover the whole kit and caboodle.

[busymom]

Ah, the good old days. When I was in elementary school, culture was learning about Jewish traditions, like learning to play a game using a dreidel, and I remember also learning a song that began "O Hanukkah, O Hanukkah, let's light the menorah". Christmas programs actually had fun songs like "Rudolph", and a few Christian songs. Now, if you DARE to have any songs based on any religions, you have to sneak them in. At DD's high school, the choir director, who I've known was a clever guy, had the kids sing a holiday song in Latin. (No one in the audience, except maybe a Catholic or two, would've recognized this as a Christian song.)

[mmhmm]

Dec 7, 2016 11:22:53 GMT -5 movingforward said:

A few years ago my city started saying Holiday tree as opposed to Christmas tree.  I was sitting in Jiffy Lube waiting to have my oil changed and a TV was playing.  A local news station announced the Holiday Tree would be lit on X date and the woman sitting next to me started yelling at the TV "It is a Christmas tree.  It has always been a Christmas tree and it always will be a Christmas tree."  Uh, okay...I was completely shocked because I could not care less what they call it. 

I am okay with Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Have A Good Kwanzaa, whatever people want to say in good tidings.  People are so freaking uptight. 

LOL! Being the rabble rouser I am, I'd have probably hollered:  "It wasn't always a Christmas tree. Before some fool cut it down and hung gaudy stuff all over it, it was just a tree - growing in peace. Frankly, it's still just a tree. It's just been abused."

[imawino]

Dec 7, 2016 11:22:53 GMT -5 movingforward said:

A few years ago my city started saying Holiday tree as opposed to Christmas tree.  I was sitting in Jiffy Lube waiting to have my oil changed and a TV was playing.  A local news station announced the Holiday Tree would be lit on X date and the woman sitting next to me started yelling at the TV "It is a Christmas tree.  It has always been a Christmas tree and it always will be a Christmas tree."  Uh, okay...I was completely shocked because I could not care less what they call it. 

I am okay with Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Have A Good Kwanzaa, whatever people want to say in good tidings.  People are so freaking uptight. 

Yep.  Anyone who can find a way to get upset over being told to have a "happy holiday" is simply an asshole. There are just no two ways around it.  It amazes me every year that it's the very same people always so eager to accuse others of being easily offended that manage to get super offended by an f'ing pleasantry.   Christmas trees were something different before they were co-opted by Christians anyway, so it has not "always" been anything.  

[Lizard Queen]

Anyone here celebrate summer solstice? Anyone, anyone? No? Face it, the only reason we do these weird things at Christmas is because the Christians took it over and kept the traditions. For the record, saying Happy Holidays to someone is perfectly acceptable in my book, but I don't think it's fair or appropriate to dilute everything that is associated with Christianity to "Holiday". And, for the record, my priest told my class (way back when) that Jesus was actually born in the early spring. Never heard September. They keep changing that up, and I'm going to think that they just don't really have a clue. Glad we celebrate around winter solstice because it gets awfully dark here in the northern hemisphere this time of year. The Christmas lights help a lot with the gloominess. Or should I say, holiday lights?

[chiver78]

Dec 7, 2016 12:44:26 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Christmas trees aren't even Christian!   They are pagan!   A ton of the stuff people get their panties in a wad over have jack squat to do with Christianity.

Jesus wasn't even born in December according to analysis of the bible and historical data.   He was born in late September.    Early Christians adapted the story to already existing  pagan traditions in order to make it more appealing for pagans to convert.

So people are getting bent out of shape about a "War on Christians" when in reality it is a "War on Pagans"

::head explodes::

THANK YOU!! 

I was about to call out the "it's a Christmas tree, don't be stupid about it" comment but you beat me to it. if we're going down that road, it's a Yule tree. don't be stupid about it.