Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada [you just knew this had to be Canadian, right? - ed.], found non-Christians feel less self-assured and have fewer positive feelings if a Christmas tree was in the room.
“Non-celebrators” reported fewer positive feelings and less self-assurance in the Christmas room. Christians were mostly cheered by the tree.
The scientists conducted the study using 77 Christians and 57 non-believers, including Buddhists and Sikhs.
The participants did not know the survey was about Christmas, and were asked to fill in questions about themselves both when a 12-inch Christmas tree was in the room and when it was not.
Um, how do I put this…? I. Don’t. Care. Christmas trees make me feel good. So do menorahs. So do those pretty Chinese dancers that come out for the lunar New Year. The only thing that doesn’t make me feel good is the Islamic crescent, and that’s only because Muslims insist on blowing shit up.
I wonder who sponsored the “research” and are there careers to be had in managing the problem of how religious displays affect the non-celebrators…the money could be in the un-countable realm just like climate change, racism, or social justice.
The tree thing is not a particular happy for me, but I am all in on the Chinese dancers…
Don’t tell me that those ethnics who somehow don’t feel ‘comfortable” about Christmas, were unaware that Canada actually celebrates December 25th before emigrating here? In my own personal experience, visible minorities seem to be the least offended people about Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, etc, because many of them ARE Christians themselves. Only the self-hating, guilt-ridden white liberal “progressives” tend to break out in a sweat whenever any Christian holdiay is mentioned.
And this is the crux of the matter. When school boards across the country switch off their collective pea-sized brains by banning Nativity plays in an effort to be more “inclusive,” they are contributing to the perpetual eroding of Canada’s Eurocentric culture by pandering to every other culture. The end result will be that most white Canadians will end up with no culture of their own, and thus no sense of national identity other than some fuzzy reference to being part of a multicultural society. A very bad omen indeed.