Festive Note - Nativity Plays

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Heidi Tandy <heidilist at t...> 
wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:43pm, junediamanti wrote:
> 
> > 1.  PC.  Yes, indeedy.  Though the Christmas Nativity play is 
rooted
> > in the Judeo-Christian tradition...
> 
> Actually, no.
> 
> I don't want to sound mean, and I'm really trying not to sound 
sarcastic 
> but...
> 
> It's firmly rooted in Christian tradition. Given that, as a rule, 
Jews 
> don't celebrate Christmas, there's nothing "Judeo-" about the 
> tradition.
> 
> June, I know you weren't trying to do or say anything negative 
here, and 
> you were describing something that takes place in schools around 
the 
> world in december, I just needed to post and clarify this, because 
it's 
> a little buggaboo of mine.
> 
> Heidi

No offence taken at all and I stand happily corrected.  What I was 
after was to make the distinction between that and Islam and Hindu 
faiths.  If I used Judeo-christian as a term it was to make the 
point that Christianity is a descendent faith of the senior Judaism.

And I certainly hope I didn't give any offence and apologise if I 
did.

June