LETTER TO THE EDITOR:L. Galvez of Calgary argues against removing all religious terminology from the holiday season (letter to the editor, Globe and Mail, Dec. 23). Employing the notion of tolerance, Galvez suggests that we should all respect each other’s cultural and religious practices, and that if he or she “were in another country, [he or she] would joyfully celebrate Diwali, Hannukkah, Ramadan or any other holiday with the citizens”.
Without sounding like too much of a Grinch, I have to ask: Does this mean that in our country, the “citizens” celebrate Christmas? Ironically, the invisibility of the non-Christian other in Galvez’s argument is exactly why many Canadian “citizens” resent the portrayal of Christmas as the “Canadian” holy day.
posted by Emma Jo Aiken-Klar, PhD at 10:43 AM
2 Comments:
Oh, c'mon! Put a sock in it! Merry F---n Christmas!
What's amazing to me is that people actually get offended that I don't want to have to hear about "our lord has come" or "the new born king". I mean, people make out that Xmas is all about consumerism and the economy and so forth, but then they throw in "remember Christ our saviour!" Like, "Oh, yeah! Our saviour! Sorry, I almost forgot about him!" Maybe it's because I'm Jewish, mofo!
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