Give this a listen and notice what's missing.

 

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I'm sorry, if you don't want to offend those of other faiths, why is ok to offend those of the Christian faith? Plenty of secular songs could have been used and then no one is offended. I'm simply not buying the excuse that no offense was intended.

 

Link to the story.

Their Explanation is deceitful at worst and disingenuous at best .

Sing Rudolph is you do not want to bring the religious aspect into it.

 

Crazy.

Their Explanation is deceitful at worst and disingenuous at best .

Pretty much how I felt.

I can't see how you would honestly think leaving the religious parts of the song out wouldn't offend Christians. I'm thinking they didn't care about offending them.

Sing Rudolph is you do not want to bring the religious aspect into it.

 

Crazy.

Exactly!

Ok... so it's a silent night, nothing special going on...

 

But if there's no baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger, then why in blazes is the heavenly host singing "Alleluia!"? And who's sleeping in heavenly peace? Is it just a general directive to everyone listening to go on and take a nap?

 

Truthfully, I'm not half as troubled by any un-Christian goings on as that they've subjected these kids to a song completely devoid of internal logic. It makes no sense now. And that's upsetting.

Ok... so it's a silent night, nothing special going on...

 

But if there's no baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger, then why in blazes is the heavenly host singing "Alleluia!"? And who's sleeping in heavenly peace? Is it just a general directive to everyone listening to go on and take a nap?

 

Truthfully, I'm not half as troubled by any un-Christian goings on as that they've subjected these kids to a song completely devoid of internal logic. It makes no sense now. And that's upsetting.

While I agree, I'm more offended than you. This smacks of anti-Christian to me, but then again, I may be over-reacting since it's one of my favorite Christmas songs.

If you want to be inclusive, or at least non-offesive, of other faiths and religious beliefs, there are clearly more effective and sincere ways of doing it than making mincemeat out of a beloved carol. All it does is make you look stupid IMO.

While I agree, I'm more offended than you. This smacks of anti-Christian to me, but then again, I may be over-reacting since it's one of my favorite Christmas songs.

 

Public schools have to be a bit wary these days. If they sing Christian songs do they also then have to sing songs from other religions? Most will say "no" and I'd then ask "why not?"

 

Answer it based on law and not you(collective you) being a Christian.

Plenty of non religious Christmas songs, they should have stuck to those.

On an "outrage scale" of 1 to 10, this is a 1. Choir director loved the melody, was afraid of offending Jewish and probably some Muslim parents at the Long Island school, so she altered the lyrics into a meaningless word jumble. Not much different, really, than when the Star Spangled Banner gets condensed during Olympic medal presentations -- or when Hallmark changes "gay" to "fun" in the "Now we don ..." lyric. I guess Fox will go nuts over this story.

On an "outrage scale" of 1 to 10, this is a 1. Choir director loved the melody, was afraid of offending Jewish and probably some Muslim parents at the Long Island school, so she altered the lyrics into a meaningless word jumble. Not much different, really, than when the Star Spangled Banner gets condensed during Olympic medal presentations -- or when Hallmark changes "gay" to "fun" in the "Now we don ..." lyric. I guess Fox will go nuts over this story.

Couldn't disagree more. You totally brushed off the fact that many were offended at the school and that it IS offensive to many Christians. Just so long as no other religions got offended it's ok is the message you're sending. I don't care if the choir director loved the melody, another song should have been chosen, a secular one at that and no one gets offended. I don't know about "going nuts" but Fox should shed a negative light on it. So should the rest of the news outlets, but we know that won't happen.

Public schools have to be a bit wary these days. If they sing Christian songs do they also then have to sing songs from other religions? Most will say "no" and I'd then ask "why not?"

 

Answer it based on law and not you(collective you) being a Christian.

Agree, that's why they should have chosen a non-Christian song. The way this was done was just wrong.

Public schools have to be a bit wary these days. If they sing Christian songs do they also then have to sing songs from other religions? Most will say "no" and I'd then ask "why not?"

 

Answer it based on law and not you(collective you) being a Christian.

 

But then again there are plenty of songs to choose from, that are not Religious in nature, so the question has to be asked, why choose a song that has Religious overtones and then change the words, if not to tick off Christians?

 

Again I have no problem with Public Schools not singing Religious Christmas theme songs but to blantaly change the intent of a Religious Christmas song, just to make certain non Christians are not offended, is indeed a slap in the face of those who indeed are Christians and is offensive and the Choir Director should be reprimanded for it.