Friday, December 23, 2005
EXIT CHRISTMAS TREE, ENTER MAGIC TREE
Hint--it's the same tree.
Some parents are scratching their heads after school administrators insisted students call a Christmas tree a "magical tree," the color red was removed from green and red elf hats, and songs from "Jesus Christ Superstar," were pulled from a winter concert.
"I can see a religious holiday being offensive to those who don’t celebrate it," said Dale Fingar, whose sixth-grade son brought home 10 red and green elf hats Monday and requested she replace the red fabric with white. "But red and green hats? Come on."
This is taking place in Florida, and the parents are reacting:
Handfuls of parents said they were upset with the administration’s handling of "a couple" of complaints from parents who were offended by Christian religious themes in the middle school’s holiday programming.
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Paul Danehy was perturbed yesterday morning after leaving his third-grader’s holiday concert at Memorial School. Instead of "We Wish you a Merry Christmas," the students sang, "We Wish you a Swinging Holiday."
Danehy also has a sixth-grade son, who had been practicing his lines from "Jesus Christ Superstar," for three weeks.
"I’m not advocating for a Christian-based celebration," Danehy said. "But don’t ignore the white elephant in the corner called Christmas."
He said he was "sent into orbit" after learning students were encouraged to call a Christmas tree a magical tree.
"I know what a menorah is," Danehy said. "I’m not calling it a candleholder."
Sixth-grade parent Anne Pendleton said she comes from an interfaith family, Catholic and Jewish.
"Enough is enough," Pendleton said. "If my daughter wants to go call it a Christmas tree, she should be able to call it a Christmas tree."
A few people in our culture are trying to foment a religious war of words. They are pitting one faith against another, whether intentionally or not; and this year the Christian majority has started to push back.
What none of the parents seem to realize is that they have not been given secular language when the Christmas tree was morphed into the magic tree. Instead, they have been given the religion of occultism which has managed to nudge Christianity out of the language in this instance because the Christians being pushed around are ignorant of what is overtaking them.
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