[Teachers banned a nine-year-old boy from his class Christmas party because his parents had barred him from religious education lessons.]
Christmas means Christs birthday, so parties for that are to celebrate the birth of Christ
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let's recapitulate:
the winter solstice,
finally Christ (born in the spring 4BC)
yes very much a Xian festival.
This is the Daily Mail ...
If the story isn't referenced elsewhere, it's probably bullshit.
@john - so why is the US the country with all the bible-bashing fundies?
To sodapop
The reason it is fundie is that she supports the teachers position to ban a small child from a party because his family are non believers. Why would you have to believe the story to be real to enjoy a party with your classmates?
It's a festive party for kids, it doesn't matter if it is for jesus or Garfield the cat. The inability to realize that is what separates a fundie from a human being.
Ah, Yule. That traditional middle eastern festival, when morale is lifted through the cold, snowy grey winter with feasting, merriment and the exchanging of gifts.
"Some day the Brits will reach the same conclusion the American founding fathers came to 220 years ago: no established religion."
I'll agree we need to get rid of the established religion thing, but we have far fewer problems with fundamentalists than the USA seems to. I know very, very few practicing christians.
I think the solstices were the first significant days to be observed...the winter solstice certainly, as soon as the superstitious primitives realized that the sun would not sink forever beyond the southern edge of the world.
Great news! A righteous thing to celebrate! Good cheer to all!
...except, of course, the innocent targets of ostracism.
Cheap-souled wretch of a teacher! I urinate.
If you read(to the very, very end) of the article it appears that the teacher was reversed by the schoolboard and had to have a second party, just for him. Hopefully the teacher had to pay for it out of his own pocket(serves him right, self-righteous twit).
Christmas as you know it was taken from the pagen holiday of yule (hence the term "yule tide" or "yule log").
Find another day to celebrate your "Jesus day" and stop stealing holiday's from other religions.
How can you barr your kid from part of the school curriculum? If only my parents had barred me from math lessons...
Yuletide means the Aesir festival for the rebirth of the sun. So? Way to go to teach children how to ostracize those who are the least bit different from you, you great big bully you!
Daily Mail is also called Daily Fail, I believe.
The consensus among religious schollars is that, if Christ did exist, he was born in spring, either in AD 4 or AD 7. Btw, there is no year Zero.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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