Your Pre-Merry Christmas Post

 

Christmas is the celebration of the Birth of Christ.

The name literally means "the Mass of Christ". 

Frosty the Snowman simply wasn't recorded in the census of Augustus Caesar.

But the gradual secularisation and commercialisation of this feast just isn't moving swiftly enough for the bloated sector of Canadian political Puritans:

“Christmas” is discriminatory, says @CdnHumanRights Commission report. Observance of Jesus’ birth is “an obvious example” of religious bias rooted in colonialism. https://t.co/0unRzUwllv #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/0RTXuO2waU

— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) November 21, 2023

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The Canadian Human Rights Commission — an agency with broad judicial powers that is fully funded by the federal government — has declared that the celebration of Christmas is evidence of Canada’s “colonialist” religious intolerance.

“Discrimination against religious minorities in Canada is grounded in Canada’s history of colonialism,” reads a Discussion Paper on Religious Intolerance published last month by the agency.

“An obvious example is statutory holidays in Canada,” it adds, noting that the Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter get days off, while non-Christians have to “request special accommodations to observe their holy days.”

The thrust of the paper, first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, is that Canada is replete with religious intolerance and always has been. “In order to move forward towards sustainable change, all Canadians must first acknowledge Canada’s history of religious intolerance,” it reads.

 

(Sidebar: a country that allows tens of thousands to demand the elimination of Israel, the firebombing of Jewish centres in Montreal and the vandalisation and immolation of churches says what now?)

I'll just leave this right here:

For centuries, the crèche has served as an opportunity for believers from many different communities to represent the iconic scene of the Nativity of Jesus. Certain African Nativity scenes have replaced the traditional donkey and ox with a zebra and giraffe. In the Seychelles, turtles come to visit Baby Jesus."

The more joyless among us tend to hide their ulterior motives behind masks of virtue and this "colonialism" is the newest mask. No one is forced to celebrate the day they have off, nor can they not take time for themselves for their own purposes.

Has anyone actually asked the Canadian Rights Commission for its help or input in rooting out this joyous festival for all?

I didn't think so.