Teri Apter, PhD, author of What Do You Want from Me? Learning to Get Along with In-Laws, suggests trying this line of questioning: Do you not want to put up the poinsettia because you didn't grow up with this particular kind of religious decoration?
Actually, the real conflict is not that people put up religious Christmas decorations.
Step into any city in America or Britain and you will see the night sky lit by religious symbols, Christmas decorations certainly and probably also a giant menorah.
Because of their religious nature, these decorations showed an idealized version of reality, emblematic of the temple's purpose rather than real events.
The market/warehouse is a one-stop shop, offering an dizzying array of fresh, frozen and dried goods, popular Thai and Asian snacks, and kitchenware, furniture, religious and holiday decorations.
Howard County, Indiana, Commissioner Tyler Moore told an Indianapolis television station that the thematic incoherence of the holiday lawn display was deliberate: "If we put the religious or Christmas decorations up, we'd be offending a whole other group of citizens and taxpayers".
The modern idea of art – our belief that artworks deserve to be taken seriously not as mere decorations or religious icons but unique displays of imagination and intellect – began in Italy in the Renaissance.
The mood of the exhibition shifts in the exclusively non-Western rooms, where hair is used in clothing, body decoration and religious and cultural rituals.
But in public spaces, like lobbies, hallways and conferences rooms, care should be taken not to display decorations with "a religious significance" because some state workers or members of the public might find them "offensive".
