http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30277344
Whilst I am not a christian, this development renders Christmas less meaningful/significant. Jesus seems to be already eclipsed by Santa!
Thanks Amy. Oh dear, this is so depressing.
It's rather like a department store in a provincial city in Japan a few years ago (though they had an excuse for their lack of understanding) They had a Christmas window and couldn't understand why so many Westerners were visiting it and taking photos of it and laughing. Bless them, they had the stable, with the holy family and the animals inside, but outside, they had Rudolph and the other reindeer looking through the windows and - wait for it - Santa hung on a cross!!! 😀
Love and peace,
Judy
Christmas has been losing it's meaning for a long while now. That's saddening, as it's become more about material gain.
Christmas has been losing it's meaning for a long while now. That's saddening, as it's become more about material gain.
It’s not just Christmas that has gone this way – everything that can become more about material gain has done. That is an inevitable result of the capitalist system that affects most of modern culture.
However, I don’t think that this trend in Nativity plays (if what is posted on Netsmum can be indicative of a trend) is particularly new. Invented characters have been added ever since the concept of a nativity play started – or before that in the days of Medieval Miracle Plays. It is commonplace. And, arguably, part of the tradition.
I can understand schools wanting to add characters to the story so that all the kids can have a part in the play (it's an education for them to all take part), but those characters should be relevant or within the context of what the nativity is about. Spacemen and Elvis certainly don't fall into that category.
I'm not religious myself, but I respect the fact that some things shouldn't be changed for the sake of stupid rules and perceived political correctness.