The Written Word: Rafe Mair, Dec. 5th

By Rafe Mair

This is the time of year when higher purpose persons get all hot and bothered about the Christ in Christmas, shriek that little children will become confused if they’re exposed to a Nativity Scene in the school or asked to sing Christmas Carols instead of Frosty the Snowman and Jingle Bells.

Strangely the people who object to Christ being involved in Christmas are not the minorities within our society but an annoying group of tiny minds who look for ways to make nuisances of themselves over what they see as unacceptable conservatism in the community.

Will Easter be next?

Will Good Friday become Bugs Bunny Day?

Canada is not, I readily concede, a Christian country.

It does, however, have a Christian heritage. Far from meaning that everyone must be Christian, it means all are permitted religious freedom, something that Christians fought long and hard to achieve.

If that heritage meant brain washing little children into rejecting their own heritage it would be a very bad thing, But Christmas is not a time of religious aggression but one of peace …

Is that such a terrible thing?

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