So Lambeth City Council wanted to change the Christmas Lights to Winter Lights?! I am almost ashamed to be British when I hear this sort of tomfoolery. Whatever next? Winter presents under the Winter Tree? Father Winter?!
No no no!! It's Christmas and I say this as an atheist. Whether we celebrate Christmas as Christians or as Heathens it is still Christmas. We have to respect that it is the day that Christians celebrate the birth of Christ (and I sort of believe in the New Testament but not at all in the Old Testament) and should we choose to celebrate it as a time to be with family and share consumer goods or just to have a couple of days off work we shouldnt change the name. If the PC Brigade want their Winter Festival then they can darn well choose another day to celebrate it on. Leave Christmas alone!!
We are spending Christmas in the US. Over there no one says 'Happy Christmas!' You have to say 'Happy Holidays!'
You send Happy Holiday cards and sing carols around a Happy Holiday tree and decorate your house even when it's 80F outside with icicles because it's the Holiday season. You can't offend non-Christians because they have a day off work too and wouldnt be allowed this if it wasnt a non-religious festival. I dont want the UK to be like that.
Yesterday I read in one of the tabloids (it was probably a few days old as I dont get a chance to read the news on the day it is printed!) that a cathedral choir was made to change the words of 'God Rest ye merry Gentlemen' to 'God Rest ye merry people' just to keep the PC Brigade happy! What lunacy!! In fact I am embarrassed to be British if this is the way things are going?
Wonder what it's like in the Seychelles? I could cope with living there I think. If it's PC-free then I am on my way!
Oooops - no I'm not because my husband has just frittered the savings away on sandwiches, sweets and whatever else he buys in Tescos and we cant even afford to buy bread this week!