Christmas Town

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If anyone cares, I think the event is mostly not specifically religious with some religious tones added. While I would like to say anyone should be able to enjoy it, sometimes it only takes one small thing to enrage one person. I think that atmosphere is the goal for Christmas Town, and the park does a good job of setting that good holiday spirit throughout the park.

Edited per Jonquil's request
 
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Can we clarify something here? I've seen two different people use the (linguistically clunky) term "non-secular" to mean "not religious". "Secular", which derives from Christian Latin, means "of the world"; in other words, not religious. If something is secular, it's not religious in nature. If something is non-secular, it's religious, in this case Christian. Use your words.
 
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Matthew said:
I always feel like I'm not saying what I'm thinking right, so I'll make another attempt. I feel the park went into Christmas Town thinking, that they could not include Christianity, and not attract Christians in large numbers to the event like they do now, or they could attribute some Christian aspects, attract most Christians to the event, then make the rest of the event secular. Out of their best interests for the event, and wanting success over everything for it, they decided to go with option two.

While I think an event celebrating different winter holidays would be an interesting idea, the park knows it wouldn't attract as many people as when they just involve a little Christianity, and then make the rest of the event secular.

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Matthew, I think you're a good dude and a great contributor to the forum. But I don't agree with your assessment. Here's where our views differ:

I think you're retrofitting your narrative to fit a happy result, and it's where I disagree. The park goes out of it's way to make this a Christmas event. That's a fact - they've stated as much in interviews (checkout The Season Pass Podcast episode #252 if you don't believe me). But in order to maximize profit they tone it down, thus riding the line. It seems a bit hypocritical because is the event about making money and putting on a show for everyone, or is it about your religion? It's kind of tough to say both since one is a little at odds with the other. Most of us probably don't hold a grudge because what big business isn't hypocritical at some point and it isn't really that big of a deal. But obviously, some people are going to have to decide for themselves if the religious aspect is too much (or too little) of what they want out of the event.
 
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*sigh

I guess my point was missed again. Everything you pointed out in your post was what I was going for in my post. The park added the religious aspect to the event, to make more money out of the Christian demographic. I agree with everything you said, in your post, I think you're just reading my posts in a way they weren't meant to be.
 
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The park is advertising more than eight-million lights this year.... Is that another million more or something?
 
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