Just a question... observation....

I almost always rename Winterfest to Christmas. It's easy enough to do that.

I like the fact that we can customise holidays to our liking. I don't think we could at all in previous games so it's great that we can edit or delete the default ones or create our own.

I guess they just wanted to stay neutral. Not everyone celebrates Christmas or Thanksgiving. But then the Menorah is called a Menorah, and the Kinara a Kinara why didn’t they change the names too ? They’re religious items though, I guess they can’t change the names like that, that could look disrespectful.

I just wish Santa was Santa instead of Father Winter.

there's alot of winter holidays so I always thought that they named it "Winterfest" as to not be viewed as picking one holiday over the other, same with Harvestfest or whatever its called in-game.

the menorah and kinara are there-and with the correct names- because well it would be wrong to just change the name of those objects and they also wanted everyone to be able to create a holiday to their liking.

I like to replace Winterfest with Snowflake Day as it was known in Sims 3. I always add a Spooky Day as well. Easter I usually call Spring Day. The Simverse is not the real world, and so it makes quite a lot of sense to me to use fictional holiday names which represent the corresponding real life ones. But it's really just a celebration of the different seasons. There is no faith or religion of any kind in my game.

It is strange that they have religious items in game, with a no religion ever stance...

I could see requesting more specifically religious objects, ie: crosses. I'm not asking for them but I'd also take them. Different sims do have different religious views in my game but it's not something that I want to debate on the forum.

I'm just playing a whole community so there are some sims from multiple different faiths interacting with each other.

I don't quite understand complaining about holidays that can be renamed because I'm not a fan of complaining about things that can be edited. I understand that someone might need to learn about how to do that. As for Winterfest and Father Winter, I don't think it's that PC. The character looks and acts like Santa or Father Christmas. These can be religious concepts or not.

You can have as much religion in the game as you want. You can build lots and with the club system or possibly the parties, you can make religious services, if you want. Set up a speech podium and you can have services. Customize what you want, it just isn't imposed on others either.

I created a club in my game for studying a certain spiritual text.

"WildIrishBanshee;c-17337852" wrote:
It is strange that they have religious items in game, with a no religion ever stance...

Why is that strange? It's a simple matter of not forcing a particular religion on players. It's the politically sound thing to do. Religion is a very tender subject for some. The Sims is played by people from many cultures. You've got so much freedom to customize your Sim's calendar. How can this be a problem whatsoever?

It's like some of you don't see the bigger picture here, either because you can't or refuse to. But I digress.

"CalebFillion;d-969640" wrote:
I have played sims since the beginning and just this year something occurred to me. We have the Menorah, Kwanzaa, but winterfest? why can we not have Christmas if we can have the others? We now have such diversity and are able to create it in our games, why omit this one thing? It boggles the mind.

It's simple, political correctness.