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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I'm not anti-Christmas. I am; however, anti-taxpayer-dollars-funding-religious-expression.
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Its not funding a religious expression. Its funding a cultural expression no different than Santa Claus. I like how christmas lights also incorporate manorahs as just another symbol of the holidays a long with others. Christmas is such a mishmash of various pagan and current religious beliefs that to protest the nativity likely means scrapping the whole thing. Can the state put up a tree without it being religious? At what point does a symbol become religious and not permitted vs being a pagan relic that everyone can use.
The whole fight limits what can be done and taught. Im sure public schools could do an excellent celebration incorporating many cultures and religions symbols under the large umbrella of Christmas but instead these movements always seek to remove instead of tolerate. And to me it kills the christmas spirit.