Hi Susanna
I shouldn't think for one moment that you will be in a minority on
this mailbase. I come from a service background and over the
years have celebrated a wide variety of festivals, with different
friends in different countries. I respected and celebrated their
traditions as they did mine - Christmas included.
As a non-believer I find this decision to be regrettable - assuming it
isn't apocryphal. Christmas IS a Christian festival and this seems
to deprive those that believe in Christ of the opportunity of buying
cards that celebrate their belief and from which they would
presumably gain most meaning. I always buy cards that don't have
a religious image on them but that is my choice. I have to say that
on principle I wouldn't buy anything from an organisation that
denied that freedom of choice.
I had hoped that we were increasingly moving towards a
culture of acceptance and respect for diversity but this apparent
denial of the fundamental meaning of Christmas seems to me to be
a step backwards.
Season's greetings everyone!
Michele
On 16 Dec 03, at 10:36, Susanna Hancock wrote:
> And the same to your, Faith, and yours!
>
> I'm not sure about all this desecularisation! I don't find anybody's
> religion offensive, and I don't think I'd mind being helped by
> somebody with a different religion to me. After all, we all have our
> different motivations. I suppose I might like de secularisation if I
> was an atheist, but as it is, I like something in all the different
> religions, and their traditions and cellebrations. Still, I expect
> I'm in a minority, on this mail base, at anyrate.
>
> Susanna.
>
>
> Susanna Hancock
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