Reply #9: my opinion is that holiday displays are not good battles to pick [View All]

[Lerkfish]

because in general, all religious holidays have themes of doing good to others, hopefullness, etc., and they only occur seasonally.
When you pick the battle over THOSE symbols and displays, its not the best because you cannot do so without also having to deal with the distraction of appearing to be against doing good to others, hopefullness and so on.

I think the better battlegrounds are things like the pledge of allegiance, which is more indoctrination/intolerance. Or ten commandments on courthouses...because that speaks to whether other religions will get a fair shake in the justice category....Or discrimination against jews at country clubs because it highlights limitations to culture access and opportunity.

all those are good battles, and if you win them, you've accomplished a benefit or prevented a discrimination.

But holiday displays, if you prevent them or protest them, what do you REALLY accomplish? you aren't really blocking indoctrination, you aren't preventing discrimination you aren't healing injustice....you are only ticking people off during their celebration of what are usually good values: giving is better than receiving, sacrifice and selflessness, etc.

You only succeed in marginalizing support for your own cause from people who probably support you on the other more important battlefronts.

IMHO