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[zwol]

You can tell me that Christians are a persecuted minority in this country when radio stations do not play nothing but Christmas-themed fluff for the entire month of December and then some.

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[lutin.livejournal.com]

Clearly, the pagans are taking over. (I say in particular reference to a comment about pagans made to me today after I told a man struggling to find 63 Wharton Way "Good luck.")

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Wishing people luck is a pagan act???

[lutin.livejournal.com]

Apparently! I was lectured on it for almost an hour but dstill fail to understand.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I suppose there is The Lady (of Discworld fame) but I wouldn't think a simple "Good luck" was forcibly reminding anyone of a personification they didn't subscribe to. I wonder how he would have reacted to "Vaya con Díos", which is an archaic but still fairly natural (I think) way to express the same basic sentiment in Spanish, but rather more overtly religious.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Perhaps by ranting about the foreigners taking over?
After all if English was good enough for Jesus... :)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I think there is a belief among some religious types that the very idea of "luck" as an impersonal force denies the agency of God or something.

[queenpam.livejournal.com]

Perhaps what he was hoping for was more along the lines of "Godspeed"

[brooksmoses]

Does your theory account for all the Christians who feel persecuted because the radio stations are all playing secular songs that are perverting their holiday with Santa Claus and consumerism?

[zwol.livejournal.com]

See, it's still their holiday that gets perverted.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

I think people are very bad at distinguishing persecution from having their entitlement challenged.

....And you know -- plenty of "secular" places play the truly religious Christmas music all month too. Like the airports.

And I'm ambivalent about that because GAH it is so much better *musically* than the nauseating 50s fluff. But it's really not culturally sensitive.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

The religious stuff is indeed a lot better musically speaking, but I still find it gets irritatingly repetitive after a few hours.

Also it feels like there would be more opportunity for cultural sensitivity if the big secular holidays didn't get so much run-up. They could play one or two days' worth of music for lots of different religions' holidays. More musical variety and less Christian centrism.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Just suggest it and wait for the cries of "oppression" though.

[solconeja.livejournal.com]

I think that excessive Christmas music is still one thing that even secular Jews and Christians can argue about. You know what really has me ticked? The Peanuts theme now counts as Christmas music!

[zwol.livejournal.com]

The Peanuts theme? Ok, that's just weird.

[solconeja.livejournal.com]

I assume it's because of "A Charlie Brown Christmas", but I'm pretty sure that the song I keep hearing between "Jingle Bell Rock" and "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is the normal Peanuts theme.