Carols Deemed Too Religious for Christmas
The campaign to purge Christianity from Christmas presses forward:
A school choir was forced to withdraw from a Christmas event because organisers branded its carols ‘too religious’.
Around 60 children aged between seven and 11 had spent six weeks practising favourites including Once In Royal David’s City and Silent Night for the Corringham Winter Festival.
But they were let down at the last minute when their headteacher was informed their programme did not ‘dovetail’ with the festival’s theme.
The event ended up going ahead last week with non-religious music and displays from an Irish school of dancing and performing arts students.
Naturally the organizers wouldn’t want to risk alienating Muslims by acknowledging that Christmas has something to do with Christ — not in an area where only 75% of the population identifies itself as Christian, and a full 1% as Muslim.
After Christ has been hollowed out of Christmas, moonbats will move on to other holidays. In the USA, we can expect to have the Thanks taken out of Thanksgiving, since there is no one to be thankful to, unless you’re politically incorrect enough to believe in God. Presidents Day will be renamed Barack Obama Day, because it would be insensitive to honor dead white men. All that red, white, and blue jingoism will have to be purged from the Fourth of July, but we’ll still have the barbeques, so long as they’re vegetarian — unless of course barbeques are found to cause global warming.
On a tip from Wiggins. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Posted by Van Helsing on December 12, 2008 12:26 pm
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Thank you for this wonderful post, The true battle is not for Santa, he is a fable (II Timothy 4:3,4) it is for the reason to celebrate, which is not about the sun.
I’ve added a reference to your post on War on Christmas Watch
Both of my children’s public high schools here in CO sang/played Silent Night, the Hallelujah Chorus, and many classical pieces and Christmas sogns for their holiday concerts. My daughter’s school did several Hebrew pieces too.
The only concession to the PC world was using the name “Holiday Collage” instead of Christmas concert. But they are also selebrating Hannukah too so that’s OK.
Years ago, performing religious Christmas carols was just fine with school administrations. In fact, the administrations approved these carols as part of our Western heritage.
Those days are coming to an end. But Ramadan will be observed and elevated — and used as a proselytizing tool.
When, exactly, will they realize how ridiculous they have become?
BTW: Live plants (you know, the GREEN STUFF) disperse more methane into the atmosphere than decomposing plant material – and methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.