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I'm sure it is not a wind up, maybe I'm old fashioned and "not with it", but I'm pretty much sick to the back teeth of Christmas being called "the December holiday period" so not to upset the non-christians. England is a Christian country, when non christians take up residence in England they should respect the religion and customs in that country.
- Well I for one would love to have less Christmas. I find the whole mania tedious and a nuisance. I dislike how hundreds of millions of trees have to be felled and sacrificed, dislike all the frantic present buying and rushing around people force themselves to do, dislike the enforced "jollity", dislike the way it makes many old folk living alone feel lonely, because of the compulsion of it. They live alone the rest of the year and have no especial problem with it, yet because of Christmas it makes them feel bad.
No Im not a Scrooge. I can and do give presents, visit people. But when I want to and at times of the year of my choosing, not when others try to compulse me to do so.
Im not alone in this. Many people feel the same. Only it isnt politically or socially correct to generally say so in public.
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If they don't except what is the law they are free to live elsewhere,
- No, people are not "free to live elsewhere". In practice the options for most people in this world are pretty limited.
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where they won't be mortified as were the residents of the street where a little old lady had to remove an ornamental ceramic piggy from her living-room window ledge because it upset the religeous beliefs of a few passers by.
- gosh I wish we could have "less pig" in Germany. And I agree in one sense with the Islamic dislike of pigs. Theyre dirty smelly creatures.
Too much of them in the German diet, they pop up all over the place. So, Im all for less pig please! (and why does it always have to be "a little old lady?? Some old ladies can be quite big)
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Falling back on religeous beliefs is being "used" for the wrong reasons in todays world, if you believe in a particular god, then fine, thats your human right to believe, but if you are going to use your beliefs to aggravate others to do your will, then that is wrong.
- I dont believe in any particular god, nor any god as such. As it happens, Im a Buddhist.