This year they are throwing their support behind a Catholic New York mother, who is suing the city's school authorities over their failure to include a Christian symbol in a seasonal display which included the Jewish menorah and an Islamic crescent.
Now that's just ridiculous! I'm an aetheist and I find all this stuff nonsense.
1. Christmas is actually a pagan holiday taken over by the early christians anyway. As Mikhael say most of the traditions involved are actually pagan ones.
2. The Christmas treee is not a christian symbol. Jesus was not visited by 3 wise trees bearing gifts
3. Santa is not a christian figure anymore. Saint Nick may be but as soon as you let Coca Cola reinvent him and threw away his cape he pretty much lost any religious connections. If he was a religious figure do you think they would have got away with that? Imagine someone trying to reinvent Baby Jesus in the Pepsi colours!
4. Instead of repressing all the kids religious beliefs how about letting them express them and learn tolerance for other peoples beliefs? This kind of stupidity only reinforces the belief that religion needs to be protected for the faithful.
5. Only deal with religious teaching when it steps over the line. I have no problem with christianity being taught in schools. Just give it equal time as every other major religion and don't teach it in a "This is the correct one, we'll teach you the other ones later" way. Even as an aetheist you can't be ignorant of what other people believe. If the teachers can't teach their own religion objectively then they don't teach at all.
