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Don't Believe in Jesus? No Christmas Party for You!
I have one question: What Would Jesus Do??
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In Buckie, Banffshire, two brothers were banned from the school's Christmas party because they were uninterested in religion, didn't participate in Religious Education classes, and didn't celebrate Jesus' birth. Headmaster Ian Davidson apparently believed that Christmas existed only for Christians and, if the two boys weren't going to be Christian, then they couldn’t expect to enjoy Christmas festivities with their friends.
Douglas Stewart was forced to stay at home while his friends received presents from Santa and tucked into ice cream and jelly. His parents were told he was not welcome at the celebration because they had pulled him out of religious eduction classes earlier in the year....
Furious mother Dawn Riddell, 38, said yesterday: "I've helped out at the Christmas party before and it's got absolutely nothing to do with Jesus. Douglas was heartbroken he couldn't
go. It was cruel."
Dawn Riddell had been told when she pulled her sons from Religious Education that there would be consequences, but she couldn't have expected that this would be one of them — especially since she knew that the Christmas party was secular in nature. She even called to check and was told that the school parties were all non-religious. As others have learned, though, the secular status of Christmas and Christmas celebrations doesn't stop some Christians from trying to impose their stamp of Christianity on the day wherever they can.
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In Buckie, Banffshire, two brothers were banned from the school's Christmas party because they were uninterested in religion, didn't participate in Religious Education classes, and didn't celebrate Jesus' birth. Headmaster Ian Davidson apparently believed that Christmas existed only for Christians and, if the two boys weren't going to be Christian, then they couldn’t expect to enjoy Christmas festivities with their friends.
Douglas Stewart was forced to stay at home while his friends received presents from Santa and tucked into ice cream and jelly. His parents were told he was not welcome at the celebration because they had pulled him out of religious eduction classes earlier in the year....
Furious mother Dawn Riddell, 38, said yesterday: "I've helped out at the Christmas party before and it's got absolutely nothing to do with Jesus. Douglas was heartbroken he couldn't
go. It was cruel."
Dawn Riddell had been told when she pulled her sons from Religious Education that there would be consequences, but she couldn't have expected that this would be one of them — especially since she knew that the Christmas party was secular in nature. She even called to check and was told that the school parties were all non-religious. As others have learned, though, the secular status of Christmas and Christmas celebrations doesn't stop some Christians from trying to impose their stamp of Christianity on the day wherever they can.
It's fine, of course, for Christians to celebrate Christmas in a religious manner if they wish. Who's going to stop them and who would even want to? What's not fine is for Christians to hold completely secular celebrations of Christmas and then pretend that there is some sort of religious entry requirement. To put it another way, Christians can't have it both ways: they can either have religious or secular celebrations, but they can't have secular celebrations with religious standards or expectations. This time the headmaster backed off and admitting the boys to a party, but next time might not go so well.
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