Nativity plays

[kwicky]

Now that nativity plays at Xmas are thinking of being consigned to the bin have you anything to add?

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?fo rumID=3886&edition=1&ttl=20071203204351

[evedawn]

It is to celebrate CHRISTMAS after all...the birth of Christ (which is what I truly believe - even though according to history He was probably born in Aug . Sept)

HOWEVER....even if you don't believe in Christ, which is your choice, then surely England should be able to continue to celebrate it as it has traditionally been celebrated....even if for some the idea of Christmas is like an old favourite fairy tale?


It makes me mad _ i am a "foreigner" (though have lived here for 8 years) I think if you wanna live here abide by the traditions of this country!

[jake-the-peg]

Hold the door open as it's booted out I say - Let's celebrate a true traditional Saturnalia or Sol Invictus as it was before the Christians stole our mid winter festival.

They already have Easter - they're just so greedy!

[Pippa68]

I will say (yet again) that luckily I have never experienced the banning of nativity plays.

This year, as usual, we have received the standard letter from my daughters school letting us know that as it is a Christian school the Christmas play will reflect that. Anyone who wishes to withdraw their children from the play may do so in writing.

[anotheoldgit]

I am not suprised in the least. Having seen numerous film reports on the Television News e.g. shots of various polititcian's visits to schools across the land.

One cannot fail to notice that in these classes there are mainly children of Asian decent, so why should they stage Nativity Plays?

[dancunian]

My local school is staging a play based on 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens

This was done last year with fantastic success.

The school has been criticised in the press for "refusing to do a traditional Christian (i.e. nativity) play."

It looks like it will change next year, simply to avoid the hassle and furore it appears to have caused.

If you want to talk about traditional British values that should be cherished, then let them be the freedom of expression that the school is being denied; let them be the celebration in English literature, which the school is prevented in doing, and above all let it be the reality of a seperation between the state, which runs the schools, and the Church.