The Filthy, Secular, CBC

[ed_rex]

I am a atheist, laughing at the idea of god from the first time I heard the concept. Worse, I am a leftist - a "social democract" some days, an "anarcho futurist" on others.

A couple of weeks ago, some judge in Ontario declared that a Christmas tree in the main entrance to her courthouse was an affront, of some sort

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[allhatnocattle]

Chistmas isn't much a Christian holiday anymore. It has more to do with getting together with friends and/or family, decorating pagan trees and Santa Claus plugging retail products. The tradition went from Christian to a healthy mix of Judeo-Christian multicultural and consumer-cultural.

Mother-corp's not playing a James Brown Christmas. I'm kinda upset. It's not even playing Elvis. Oh well. The Ceeb does do it's part addressing religiousity with it's Tapestry show an hour or so a week. It's the most sterile way to be polically correct, but it still strives at being even less unoffensive. Tapaetry displays the least amount of morality possible for a religious show.

Glad you stand up for the oppressed as you seem to understand there at extremes at both ends. Hopefully such compassion is reciprocated. It ought to be commonplace with such diverse co-existence.

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.

[allhatnocattle]

BTW, a nice informative link about how the Nazi's celebrated Xmas. Taking down an Christmas tree wasn't tolerated under Hitler.

Christmas and Mother Corp

[ed_rex]

Agreed about the modern Canadian nature of Christmas, which is one of the reasons I think the decision to move the tree was idiotic.

Also, if you want to create an anti-immigrant/anti-multicultural movement in this country, you probably can't do better than to make these kind of petty, pride-offending gestures towards "inclusivity".

I gotta take issue with your comments about the Mother Corp, though. Most of the time I've been listening, their shows have been all over the map, Christmas-music-wise. On the whole, they eschewed the hits for more interesting, often Canadian fare, and I'm not complaining one bit.

Glad you stand up for the oppressed as you seem to understand there at extremes at both ends. Hopefully such compassion is reciprocated. It ought to be commonplace with such diverse co-existence.

You know, all things considered, this country is doing extremely well on the diversity front - much in the Canadian tradition, we're pragmatically figuring things out as we go along, without the "benefit" of ideology to "guide" us.

[dreamkatch]

It's only OK to promote your culture if you aren't WASP, or similar