"jane" wrote
Oh dear!
You know, I often think the Govt should rename the official holiday
Xmas so people could insert the name of their choice instead of
Christ, because it certainly isn't a proper Christmas with all this
commercial whatnot and excess.

Or put it back a few days to the solstice and rename it back to
Saturnalia or Yule so as not to coincide exactly with Christmas (which
some of us still celebrate!) then everyone would be happy.
Bah, humbug!
jane

There should be a certain amount of 'holidays' per year. Then each religion
could celebrate whichever ones are pertinent to them. This would not be too
problematic with the 24/7 economy that we have nowadays. For instance,
people of faiths that don't celebrate Xmas could still work........Muslims
could take Friday of etc etc..........

Would not be very good for me though......I'm a 7 day atheist!

Jenny