Even 92 per cent of poll respondents who grew up in a non\u002DChristian household said they are not offended by someone sending Christmas greetings. Read more
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.And while some respondents who celebrate Christmas said they deliberately avoid the traditional holiday salutation for fear of causing offence, the survey suggests that’s rarely a problem: 92 per cent of respondents who grew up in a non-Christian household said they are not offended by someone sending Christmas greetings.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“Institutions, governments, businesses, sometimes they make a lot of effort trying to come up with, I guess we could call it a politically correct approach, to passing on greetings. It seems a strong majority tend to just use Merry Christmas,” said Andrew Enns, an executive vice-president at Leger. When it comes to celebrating Canadian public holidays based on religion, 58 per cent of all respondents said the current schedule should be left the way it is, as it’s a Canadian tradition.Article content
“The young generation tends to place less importance on religious holidays except in one important aspect — when it’s attached to a day off. Then they tend to think we might want a few more of these sorts of holidays than a bit less,” Enns said. Age again made an enormous difference: 39 per cent of responses from those aged 18 to 34 said they grew up in a Christian household while 72 per cent of those 55 and older said they were Christian.Article contentRespondents in British Columbia had the lowest Christian affinity and those in Quebec had the highest .
On the flip side, 41 per cent said religion was important in their household, with 17 per cent holding it as very important with the remaining 24 per cent saying it was somewhat important. More women than men said religion was important .Article content
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