Originally Posted By mele Kind of interesting: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Easter_controversies" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E aster#Easter_controversies</a>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I just heard that 'cupid' will not be invited back for any Valentine's Day celebrations at our local mall. I'm crushed, as this seems unAmerican.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Also found out that there will be no Groundhog Day celebrations at my local mall either. *sniff*
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Was the world really so bad when Leprechauns were associated with St.Patrick's Day, Santa Claus/Father Christmas/Kris Kringle was associated with Christmas, The Easter Bunny hid eggs for kids-- that we have to 'neuter' everything to it most blaise , common form ? How many people exhange Christmas gifts that are not Christians, or at the very least haven;t practiced their faith in years and years ? Many. If it really is not Christmas - and it is that day that we celebrate with the holiday tree, and the empty manger scene, what are they doing ? The whole thing has gone nuts...I don't get offended when the local public school teaches my children about Jewish holidays as they occur in school, and recently the middle school they attend had a whole day dedicated to an Islamic holy day, and they always recognize Kwanzaa. My kids got to learn about other cultures and their beliefs. I think that is great, and expands their world. Yet as we expand the world for some, for whatever reason we have to be careful with those holidays that may offend someone...namely those pushy Christian holidays....it just makes little sense to me. What next, we rename all the Gods from mythology because anyone who does not have a Greek or Roman background can;t relate ? Need to start renaming those planets because some kid may turn into a serial killer because the planets they study may benamed after greek or Roman Gods and the religious right thinks they may be brainwashed. While we're at it get rid of Mars bars ....Saturn cars.... Maybe we can rename everything using numbers.... Any time any group is offended ( supposedly) by anything we jump to try and placate them.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy And where is all this PC crap coming from that is destroying the country? The left. Just another reason to never vote for them.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer You must think the country is pretty weak if it's going to be destroyed by a name change for a giant rabbit, Beau.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper The country won't be destroyed by changing the name of a rabbit...but childhood is becoming a little less precious. We take away the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus but we have no problem airing hundreds of channels of crap on tv. At least we have our priorities straight.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Childhood is becoming less precious because we're letting our kids watch hundreds of channels of crap instead of making them open a book or play outside. And it's getting less precious because we're taking them to malls and department stores to celebrate their holidays instead of family and social gatherings. We're training them that buying stuff counts as celebrating an event. Childhood is becoming less precious because we are raising them as consumers instead of as people.
