I spent the second night of school copying our school’s calendar into my new planner and got to April. And sighed.

Why does the school – and the world at large, actually – insist on calling Easter Break “Spring Break”? I would understand if it was a week long and the point was to spirit off to Spring Break in Miami, but “Spring Break” happens to be over all the Holy Days of Easter – Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. Just because you want to ignore the fact that America is predominately Christian (in God we trust? One nation under God? Manifest Destiny?) doesn’t mean you can change holidays (holiday (n): taking root in the words holy day) into MTV specials willy-nilly.

Other things that are changing willy-nilly after being perfectly Christian for a thousand or so years? The calendar. Left-leaning, let’s-all-pretend-we’re-equal liberals are trying to change AD and BC to BCE and CE. Why this sudden change? I guess we don’t want to offend the non-religious by using Before Christ and Anno Domini.

But the arguments against using AD and BC are ludicrous. Some say that the calendar cannot be based on the life and death of one man. Okay. Forget the fact that Christianity completely shaped the Western World, but if we’re not going to base the calendar around one person, we have to completely re-do our months. July was named after Julius Caesar, August after Augustus Caesar. So, okay, no BC, no AD, but also no July or August. Let’s be fair and go back to the ten month calendar.

Of course, the other argument against Before Christ and Anno Domini is that it’s blatantly referring to Christianity, and how dare we bring up the fact that 85% of the Western World is religious? Somewhere along the line, God became a bad word, something not said in polite company.

Still going around the lines of calendars is Christmas break, which will always and forever be Christmas break. The people who went home from school in the 1800’s to be with their families weren’t doing it because they were celebrating Kwanza. (What is Kwanza anyway? A holiday to celebrate being black. If we had a holiday to celebrate being white we’d be called racist). I really hate it in school when we have the holiday concert and have to say “happy holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” I know some people don’t celebrate Christmas, and that’s fine. Whatever. But we’re not off because of Hannuka or Kwanza or The Feast of the Son. We’re off for Christmas. Deal with it.

People who use the “Politically Correct” terms, like spring break or Holiday Break or BCE are just catering to those with a thin skin, those people who actually believe everyone is equal. Everyone is not equal. Some people are smarter, stronger, more motivated. Some people are black, others white. Some people are Christians, others are atheists. You do not deal with individuality by blurring the lines between people and treating them as the same thing. You celebrate it. Why can’t we celebrate the fact that much of the modern world was settled, founded and formed by Christians?