+506 It's not "A Celebration of Holiday Traditions", it's a Christmas party. And how come the winter concert doesn't have a single Christmas or Hanukkah song? 90% of people celebrate one of those two holidays, and less than 1% of people would be offended to hear a religious based song, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

'Cause if the concert had all non-religious-themed songs, 100% of the listeners would be fine with it (both Christian, Kwanzaa, and otherwise). Whereas if it had religious-themed music the concert would seem confined to those of that religion and others would feel 'excluded'.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Stories like that are almost always made up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Agreeeee. Christmas is a religious holiday. Not an excuse to buy presents for people, and get some in return. I think it's funny that a lot of the people who get offended by religious Christmas songs actually celebrate the holiday themselves...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is one of my biggest pet peeves! When I was in elementary we weren't allowed to sing any Christmas carols (Not even Frosty the Snowman or just general "winter" songs), but we had to sing about Kwanzaa and Ramadan. I don't think we should just focus on Christian but spread it out a bit more.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(BeachBoys<3): It was the complete opposite for me. Never in my life have I sang a song about Ramadan in a school concert... We sang about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and winter in general.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Kwanzaa*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because if you allow the concert (just for example) to become religious, then it becomes pretty much all Christmas, which really pisses off not-Christians.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well fuck them, most concerts like that ARE about CHRISTMAS. If Jews wanna throw a Hanukkah concert, let em! Somebody wants a Kwanzaa concert? Whoopdeefuckin' doo, let's do it. But it IS A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION. CHRISTMAS IS RELIGIOUS.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Merry Christmas!" "You jerk, I'm Jewish!" "Well sorry for wishing you happiness...."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i went to my little brother's "winter concert" like a week before Christmas. All the songs were about world peace (with lyrics for peace in many languages ftw). Besides that, there were songs for snow and stuff. But no religious songs at all. Is it better to offend the few who don't tolerate religion, or offend many by pretending it doesn't even exist?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Seriously, we have learned about all the religions in school except christian. They try to not offend the minority meanwhile the majority has no say what so ever. It would be like if only one kind of pizza could be bought and one kid wants pepperoni and the other 50 want sausage, then they order pepperoni because the one kid was so pissed off about it. (I know it's not a great analogy but I had to dumb it down for that one person who wanted pepperoni)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe certain school districts don't feel inclined to teach Christianity *because* Christians are the majority. What's the use in re-teaching them the basics of Christian belief and history? Might as well familiarize them with new concepts.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What about the muslims, buddist, etc... people. They don't know much about christianity. But I am also saying that those few people who arent Christian seem to get paid more attention to and what they want usually overrules the opinion or decision of the Christian people.

by Anonymous 13 years ago