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[quote=Anonymous]As a Christian when we did "our" holiday for a multicultural holiday thing in public school, we picked St. Nicholas Day because it's part of our ethnic heritage while Christmas has so many different cultural aspects (I mean - it's celebrated in wildly different ways around the world) we couldn't accurately represent them all. And like you, we focused on things that weren't expressly religious, but were included in the St. Nicholas story - like how he helped the poor.

That said, a "Christmas baby" whose birth is celebrated at Christmas and whose death - it's actually his resurrection - is celebrated at Easter actually leaves the uniquely offensive parts of Christianity OUT. Nobody told your kid Jesus is the only way to heaven, or even that there is a heaven and hell concept. It's strictly true in an a-religious sense that Jesus's birth is why there's a Christmas (and you can ignore the debate about whether Christmas stemmed from Roman religous celebrations and this is still true) and his resurrection is why there's an Easter.

I'd imagine what you might be bristling about is that this was possibly teacher led. If it was students, maybe it would be more even, right?[/quote]

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