Is cancelling Christmas illegal?

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With Christmas coming up, I felt it’d be appropriate to ask a question that boggles my mind every year:
If you’ve ever watched a holiday episode of a TV show, you’re probably familiar with the trope of “high-and-mighty government figure decides to cancel Christmas for plot-related reasons”. However, this got me thinking about the real world.
Plain and simple, is it illegal for a mayor/governor/president/etc. to cancel Christmas? What are the charges if they do attempt to outlaw it?
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Why. The HELL. Would any mayor, governor, president, etc, cancel one of the most essential commercial holidays of the year?
And as far as the US is concerned, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
To be honest, I’ve never, ever, seen any show with a theme of Christmas being canceled.
I’ve seen advertisements from the GOP and lengthy exposés from FoxNews like that, though. But those are fictionally and, in the case of FoxNews, seem very aspirational. Like they would love it if that happened because then they’d be right and everyone would vote the way they want us to vote - to protect the thing that isn’t happening and won’t happen from happening.
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I don’t think it’s illegal to cancel Christmas but I may be wrong. If it’s protected by freedom of religion then they could still cancel the commercial Santa Claus part of Christmas which has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus.
Why. The HELL. Would any mayor, governor, president, etc, cancel one of the most essential commercial holidays of the year?
Because for some reason people thought it was a “racist” or “homophobic” holiday or were otherwise offended by it somehow?
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Well, in Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Burgermeister Meisterburger outlaws toys in Sombertown and passes numerous laws to try and prevent Kris Kringle from delivering said toys to all the children.
Don’t think that would work out very well IRL.
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They’d have to do some rather extreme mental gymnastics to justify that - historically, the attempts to ban Christmas were all on religious grounds, either by Puritans that thought it was too Catholic, or by conservative Muslims that claimed it’s unislamic, or by radical atheists who wanted to stamp out religion entirely.
I was replying to this bit:
To be honest, I’ve never, ever, seen any show with a theme of Christmas being canceled.
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They’ll probably come up with some stupid reason as to why Christmas is allegedly “racist”.
Well, in Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Burgermeister Meisterburger outlaws toys in Sombertown and passes numerous laws to try and prevent Kris Kringle from delivering said toys to all the children.
Even though the Burgermeister liked the Yo-Yo that Kris gave to him, making him a hypocrite.
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Christmas was actually banned in at least one US state for a while. Amusingly, it was by Christians who thought it was too Pagan. The ban was lifted sometime in the 1800s, but I can’t remember which state or specific year.
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Massachusetts, and it actually was from 1659 to 1681, but even after it was legalized it didn’t become popular until the 19th century.
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First of all, Ciaran is right. That is impossible. And there is a lot reasons to it. The most common are:
  • Christmas is a no new money squish. People love spending money, bosses love taking them. Greed and capitalistic monetisation of it what makes the Christmas exist as a “secular” holiday. And no christian or suicide bomber may change that.
  • It is the biggest holiday time of the year. Especially for adults. Children get their holidays almost each month, while most of the adults do not have any weekend vacation days within any week of the year. 5-day working is a myth today, well, mostly myth.
  • During this time many other holidays happen which has similar atmosphere and goal - collect every single member of the family at one table. Or force members to.
To say the least. Christianity is not even a thing anymore at christmas. All what’s left is some traditions and date. It reminds me of our russian Happy New Year, which is exactly the same as world-wide’s secular Christmas. And let’s talk about details then.
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Christmas is not supposed to be the holiday we know today. It is never even supposed to be something it was back in XX Century. As many said before me, that was a religious holiday, a tradition, more of a memory day. The day Jesus Christ, one of the God’s incarnations, was born. Not exactly, but around the same time. Back then days were not counted exactly that easy and practical as we do it for a few centuries - nobody wrote anybody’s birthday really, so that’s why the date is that way and even being different within christian societies.
Orthodoxian christians for example celebrate it by being fasting the rest of the december and then at the 7th January it’s christmas for them. But they do not have all this christmas morning stuff with presents. That’s just another topic and details are at large if to compare it completely with all details. But orthodoxians are still celebrating it in the name of Jesus and in rememberance, and doing the same as many do at catholic christmas many of them believe to be a sin - because you’re trying to make the work better and get rid of material and physical passions from Earth, as they say. None of my peers even knew that Christmas is even celebrated in Russia, because many believed HNY replaced it. They were shocked when they heard the truth about this kind of spiritual celebration over eating until toilet and buying until your greed is over.
And there is no way there was any NATIONAL ANTHEMS to the christmasthat you hate so much to the bone you’d like to crush every single retail shop that have acoustics in it (it wasn’t present back in the day, but for five years straight somehow Jingle Bells is freaking everywhere, oof!), because most of the “songs” are at church and not the regular songs we dance to, but again, the spiritual ones at church service, that may go for 8 hours straight depending on situation, and you must STAY at services, no seats. Catholics also has church services for Christmas less irritating at the details, the same in the idea. It’s Jesus Birth after all.
Do anybody go at church service at 25th of December. Actual christians yes, but most, including, some of us here, will enjoy something somebody bought, or even bought ourselves.
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And the last thing to add. If you did say that in public that is because you hate the holiday, and that applies to those guys from television. Because somebody force you to the table, to be with large family you do not enjoy being with. Because you maybe alone? It might be even more simple, than that. But it’s easier to ignore it. Don’t celebrate it, that’s it. And if you forced to, do the minimum required to be as checked and go away from theme. I understand it, because I hate alternative holiday of Happy New Year myself, but that doesn’t mean you should kill it for any other people enjoying it.
And officially outlawing it will make lots, lots of scandals, incidents, misunderstandings and society’s rage. Yes, introverts would be fine with it, but world is not made with it, and if it was already it would be outlawed like for a century.
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And yeah. There is famous scenario for Plague Inc. “Santa’s Little Helper” as a mind control bio-weapon worms. In that scenario the case is to make Christmas exist as a holiday. And in order to achieve that you have to fight all what of world become - no happiness. And that particular design choice made me thought about that if Christmas equals cure here, without such celebrations as Christmas, world would be a much darker place, with no fun to remember to most people.
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Well, it always depends. Not all christians need to go into church. I’m no believer BUT my parents are and they told me that they’re not going to services during “hot days” of christmas because churches are completely full. So both kind of extremes are present in the world.
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Interestingly, Christianity by itself and all of the holidays never were racist or homophobic. Christianity doesn’t approve homosexuality and the deeds it cause, but not the people that are homosexual. Christianity has such a label because some people are stubborn and believe that it’s the same case, so to blame people, to be an actual homophobic and not the whole culture and religion. All good (not redneck kind) of believers that I had talk with always said this about gay people when asked:
- I do not judge gays for being gays, I judge them for their deeds, and even like that __I do not hate them in any way.__ You should never judge people, that is more wrong than being gay. Christianity teaches us love to all mankind and some that hate somebody because THEY THINK it is in Bible (and in a Chapter about grave past that does not applies to today's reality) are actually bad.
The ones who are offended by holidays just offend themselves. They search for enemy that doesn’t lure there because it doesn’t even exist the way they talk about. And being completely atheistic doesn’t make people stop from making sexual and perverted art with Christmas related theme which is… complicated at all points in this case. I’m pretty sure that each twitter zoomer that talks about being offended by Christmas more like to have a suggestive femboy fox X-mas theme avatar at the profile.
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Massachusetts, and it actually was from 1659 to 1681, but even after it was legalized it didn’t become popular until the 19th century.
Thanks for the correction. I suspected I may have gotten something mixed up along the way.
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