Personally, I think that religious displays are completely appropriate especially around this time of year. The holiday season is about celebrating a holiday that's important to your religion and yours alone. Therefore, I don't think people should be so offended about a specific religious display. I think religious displays are fine unless they put down any other religions in the process.
I think big retailers are to blame for people shying away from being holiday specific. I can't even remember the last time I saw an ad that said "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays." I can see that these businesses have clients from all religious backgrounds and they don't want to single anyone out but I feel like the people businesses are most afraid of offending are people who have no religious beliefs.
It annoys me that those kinds of people take the spirit out of these important holidays just because they don't take part in anything. Holiday season is just a broad term for the celebrations that take place from November to January. But what people sometimes forget is that most of those holidays have religious backgrounds. I think that if holidays would become less about holiday shopping and gift-giving, then religious displays would become more accepted.
Those were really good points and I completely agree. I liked the thing about the big businesses trying to be "correct"
ReplyDeleteI completly agree Cassie. As a religous person its hard to understand why people think that we need to be "correct" when arent the holidays all about peace and giving.
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