Banning my holidays ...

[Huw Dawson]

*SCREAM*

Why can't people just realise that calling a light bulb, a frigging LIGHT BULB a "christmas light" will NOT cause a religious war and/or a terrorist attack!

WHY CAN'T PEOPLE HAVE BRAINS!

[Babar]

They're called fairy lights, foo. Take that, you paganistic English persons!

[Paper Carnival]

They're called fairy lights, foo

That offends my religion as a Christian, because fairies are the devil's wives

[Afflict]

That is why in some cases I preffer talking to my dogs, my plants or anything else of in animate nature.
Cause lets face it, some "people" are just stupid!

They have nothing else to do except complain about stupid things like Decorative lights.

[skullkid22]

Ugh, this is pathetic. Clearly this PC nonsense has gone too far, I'm Jewish but Chhristmas (or any other holiday) doesn't bother me at all, seriously. I even put a Christmas tree (My dad's Catholic). If people get offended by a holiday then there's clearly something very wrong here.

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

One thing people have to understand is that the people who are complaining about holidays aren't the ones who would be offended.

In my older brother's class, the teacher was talking about sickness.  She referred to soup as "Jewish Penecillin" (stupid spelling...) and everyone in the class started yelling at her as if she were anti semitic.  Turns out that she was the only jewish person in the room. 

[Paper Carnival]

I was kidding in my previous post in case you didn't know

But that's a very good point, King Nipper. I bet if we survey everyone, only a very small percentage of people will get offended by holidays. But apparently, some people do get offended:

A quote from what someone else said on a different forum

Boston Legal on ABC this week was about a Wiccan couple and a Christian
couple that didn't want a Halloween pagaent at their kids' school. The
Wiccans said the principle dressing up like a witch created a negative
stereotpye of Wiccans, and the Christians said that they wanted to protect
their children from something that involved satan (short & sweet of the
two versions).

[...]

[Afflict]

Wiccans are not devil worshippers! Get this now...
Some good some evil and this is probably a whole different topic.

[Ozzie]

When I hear something like this I feel pretty happy living here in Germany. Here aren't any fundamentalists who want to ban Harry Potter because it is about wizardry or think Halloween is the birthday of Satan. Also no discussions about renaming christmas lights to winter lights or similar nonsense. Okay, on closer inspection, while the lights are pretty much called the same here, namely "Weihnachtslichter" which means the same translated, our word doesn't contain any hints about the christian religion though, so THIS may shield us from such stupidity....
Of course there are discussions about religion in schools, female muslim teacher aren't  allowed here to wear their headscarf because it could have a bad influence on the kids or something like this. It can be debated if this is even a religous sign, but if not it is certainly a social one, the suppression of the woman.
And it's certainly weird because kids aren't either allowed to wear a headdress like a cap because it's probably not really gentle.
Another case is that some parents thought it offends their kid that in the class rooms hangs a cross on the wall. I think that the cross is unnecessary and possibly should be removed, but I'm not sure if it was needed to take this case to court...  :

About the holidays, like Darth said, the majority should probably rule. But  this made me think why does this majorities have to exist, why are there christian and jewish schools?

I don't see Christmas and Eastern as christian holidays neither, we don't celebrate it out of religous beliefs, in remembrance of Jesus Christ, it's only about decorating the christmas tree, to be together with the family and presents. Kinoko said it best.
But normally only people are celebrating it who grew up in christian families, so it's at least a christian tradition.
And Halloween, well, that's more of an american tradition. It also grows steadily famous here in Germany, but we have a similar holiday, it's called "Hexennacht", translated "witches night". But it's taking place an half year earlier.....or later. There ain't any complaints about, though. Only if the pranks were to rude....