Monday, December 12, 2011

Why so serious?


With all things said what does this concept really come down to? Well the point of it all is that the campaign against the use of Merry Christmas is quite ignorant. In fact many suggest that fighting to keep it is ignorant of other cultures. In real life there is diversity and that has too be met with at all times. So just simply reversing the accusation of ignorance doesn't make anyone correct. The point however of this whole thing is to show that despite all the political correctness of the culture of today the system doesn't help at all. How then can we solve this? Well as staeted before in another post, the introduction of a moent of silence could help to make kids used to being partially exposed other cultures. Another suggestion would be to set a week or day aside to celebrate a different holiday and culture. Finally one should just accept that people will say things despite it being "offensive". I mean no one is forcing anyone to say Merry Christmas at all. So say what you want, but don't make it a rule that what secular people say has to be correct because they have no cultural bias That would be B.S. becuase they do have a bias and that is secularism.
Wait a minute, doesn't the US constitution say seperation of Church and State? And becauseof this both solution 1 and 2 are not valid? Well it seems to be true, but in reality it's not. For the moment of silence points out no particular faith or non faith based belief, it just is instated to allow all to be free to express their beliefs freely fo a moment or so. Well then still the setting aside of religious observances are againt the law of the land. Again, not so for if this were fully true then how come Public schools get off for Jewish Holidays, as well as Christmas itself? I mean there is no bases for schools to get off for Christmas. No where is there a secular reason for the day of Christmas off, as well as the Jewish holiday's. It's all based upon religiousobservance, and an equal oppurtunity to have it. In fact there is a clasue of the first amendment that says religious freedom. So the use and spoken action of Mery Christmas is such a freedom, and therfore isn't against teh Constitution whatsoever. I mean its ok to say Happy hannukah and Happy Kwanza, but why not Merry Christmas? Clearly the suppressing of the use of this phrase is discriminatory and not correct in nature. So while ths connotation of the phrase is religious it's perfectly protected by the constitution to say.

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