"I remember having Jewish classmates in my school who did not celebrate Christian feasts when most of the class did. I grew up in the late 1950s and 1960s in Italy, where there was a strong Communist presence, and children from Communist families would not celebrate certain civil and religious feasts either. There were also Protestant children who did not share in the joyful celebrations of the feasts of the Virgin Mary, a typical feature of Italian culture. And so on. If the law should compel the Jehovah’s Witness children to celebrate birthdays and Christmas, it should also compel children from Jewish [families and] atheist families to celebrate the birth of Jesus, which would be a serious violation of their freedom of religion or belief. A more reasonable solution is to teach [the] minors that a pluralistic society includes women, men, and children of different beliefs and cultures, and all should be respected."
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Massimo Introvigne, "Is Something Rotten in the State of Denmark? A Strange Case Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses", Bitter Winter (October 9, 2024)
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