“Among the all “Christmas” music rotation?” Christ on a crutch, that IS the Christmas rotation! Change the singers now and repeat ad nauseum for a full month. Damn, I wish they’d throw som religious songs into the mix just so we get some fucking VARIETY!
I LOVE it. The shoe’s on the other foot now. I’ve always thought this country would be a whole lot better off if the people who are always pushing for school prayer, teaching creationism, displaying the 10 Commandments in government buildings, etc. would just take one second to imagine what it would be like if they were the minority and had someone else’s religion crammed down their throat.
Well, at least for the last 2000 years. Doubtful before that…
I thought Mormons celebrated Christmas. 
If the intent was to eliminate all “religious” songs of whatever flavor, I would wonder why Hanukkah songs were included. Perhaps someone felt they were simply “cultural,” like Kwanzaa. If the intent was to “stick it to the Christians” it seems a trifle rancorous for the seasonal spirit. It would seem odd, in this culture, for it to be a mere oversight. Perhaps the non-religious winter songs have been associated with Christmas for so long, Christmas got a tick mark there and was considered to have been acknowledged.
eeeeexxxxxcellent! 
can’t. get. tune. out. of. head. must. hum. something.
Bum BAAAA Da-du-da-dump . . . NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
They do. At least, there’s a tree behind me, a Nativity scene on a table, carols on the stereo, and far too many caloric goodies sitting around, and I’m a Mormon.
I’m a Mormon, and I like to spend Christmas with my wives and children.
Just kidding…ouch! stop it…
Exactly. How did those songs get to be declared “Christmas Carols”?
There are plenty of good songs to sing about the winter season (baby, it’s cold outside!) and not all December concerts have to be about Christmas.
Oh, horse hockey. It’s got nothing to do with "getting (my) way. I was never in favor of all-one-thing or all-another when it came to kids’ December school concerts.
The main point was, and remains, why is a December “festivity” at a grade school automatically assumed to be about Christmas?
Uh huh. I got an answer back from Miz Christian today. She did not answer why a September concert wouldn’t be all about Rosh Hashana, but to “Why do you assume it’s a Christmas concert” she replied “Because it always has been.” And then she went on to say that Christmas (aka December 25) was a religious holiday long before it had any secular meaning.
It was a matter of only a few moments for me to point out that even if she believed that the world was created in 4004 BCE, that meant that December 25 had four-thousand-plus years of being a secular day before the Christians ever got their hands on it via cribbing it from Mithras.
Well your tone seems to indicate that you take some sick twisted sadistic pleasure in this little kid fealing hurt by an obvious anti-Christian concert, or more accuratly pro anything else other then Christain.
Perhaps a bit more compassion towards your fellow man, or just be a bit open minded.
What little kid? The OP doesn’t mention any little kid. It just mentions an uptight cooze with a stick up her ass about Christmas. Fuck her, that’s what I say.
Uh-huh. Since when were conservatives about compassion towards other people and their feelings? I thought that was political correctness and a “libruhl” thing. And even if the little kid’s feelings were hurt? Hey, it’s not the school’s job to look after her self-esteem, right?
Oooooooh, now I get it. When the possibility that it’s Christian kids getting the shaft, noooooow we have to be concerned about little Janey’s feelings and cultural sensitivity and exclusive celebrations. I see.
Uh, just where did you see anyone write anything about a little kid **feeling **hurt?
Little too much fortification in the egg nog tonight, maybe?
If some people are rejoicing in the fact that these concerts are deliberately “sticking it” to people who celebrate Christmas, then I’d say that it was a pretty bitter and uncharitable sentiment. So your idea of a great idea is to treat people in a way that you’ve never liked being treated yourself? Gee, how elevating. And as SparrowHawk says, “it seems a trifle rancorous for the seasonal spirit.” Yeah, I’d say so.
With that said, I suspect that SparrowHawk is correct when he (she?) said that they very well may have figured that the “Winter” songs were sufficiently associated with Christmas enough to be considered Christmas music. Therefore, they’d fulfilled their Christmas portion of the concert. Sounds possible to me.
I don’t think the concert was “deliberately sticking it to” the people who celebrate Christmas. I think the person who was whining that there was no Christmas music was not seeing the point that many people who don’t celebrate Christmas were, year after year, “treated” to a December concert that was heavily stacked in favor of Christian music, and were expected to siddown and shaddup because it was automatically a **Christmas **concert.
But let the Christians get stiffed, and oh, we can’t have that.
NOBODY likes to be stiffed. The woman sounds like a twit because very likely the “winter” music was considered “Christmasy enough” therefore no slight or exclusion was intended. But it still comes back to the fact that nobody likes being stiffed. You don’t, I don’t, nobody does.
If you (the collective “you,” not you personally, infamousmom) rejoice in someone else being stiffed, what does that make you? Someone who derives pleasure in others (some who don’t deserve it) being stiffed, that’s who.
How is it obvious? Are you somehow privy to the full programme, which only one person here knows? Or are you assuming that it was ‘obvious’, because that’s convenient for your rant?
I learned it all the way through high school as “Christmas bells are ringing” too.
The original lyrics are definitely “in heaven…”. And changing it to “the Christmas…” doesn’t match the rhythm of the melody.
pssssst, THANK GOODNESS I’m not the only one !!!