Well, now that I'm on my Non denominational winter vacation leave, I can catch up on all my reading on this site!
I still wish everyone "Merry Chistmas"- in fact, whist decorating the company lines this year, and ensuring that everyone got a goodie bag and piece of fruitcake, I was struck by the fact that we are turning into the same "godless heathens" that we referred to the Nazis as during WW2.
Everyone must set aside personal beliefs and practices and kneel before the altar of "multiculturalism". God is to be banished from schools and children must be taught that anything done in another culture is also OK here - even encouraged! Sikhs should be allowed to carry daggers on airplanes, Muslims should be polygamous and the English should have bad teeth. Each group shall create a microcosm of their origional culture here in Canada, and any criticism of it shall be "racism", and duly ignored. No thought is given to the fact that these practices made their home countries so ripe for the leaving in the first place, and that their practices may not be suited to this country. The only culture to be ignored it seems, is that of the majority - white, anglophone and christian. Only we are to be ignored, sidelined and forced to recognise the beauty of others' cultures. Ours is too generic, too lacking in exoticism to be practiced.
So have a MERRY CHRIST - MASS and don't forget your fellow man on the birthday of Jesus.*
* That means go to the shacks and make sure your troops don't spend Christmas day eating easy - mac from the microwave - or worse - swinging from their chinup bar.
It's pretty lonely spending chistmas alone.