Christmas Song Revives Religious Debate

From Reuters

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian teacher's efforts to make a Christmas carol more acceptable to young Muslim students by removing the word "Jesus" has rekindled the debate over religious symbols in the Roman Catholic country.

A judge sparked a nationwide controversy a year ago when he ordered that a crucifix be taken off a school wall. Pope John Paul (news - web sites) weighed in saying it was undemocratic and dangerous to try to erase a country's religious symbols.

But before the latest standoff exploded into a full-blown controversy, the 10- and 11-year-old students resolved the issue by opting to stick to the original lyrics.

I cut the story down to highlight two notes of interest.

1. The pope finds it 'undemocratic' and dangerous to erase a country's religious symbols.

Wow, coming from a catholic, they must know what they are talking about. considering the catholics did just that so well. Another point that bother's me about that statment is the religion is not country based (in most cases).

2. Leave it to children to come up w/ the most logical and peaceful way of solving the issue. Of course leave it to adults to f' it up.