My biggest complaint is that every year around Christmas time, is everyone says “Happy Holidays” and not Merry Christmas!
All the television stations and radio stations alike!
I feel insulted and ripped off my favorite holiday which is the Birth of Jesus Christ, hell even the Mall Santas are saying happy holidays.
This is ridiculous!
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I feel the same way. Jewish people get to celebrate Hannukah and African Americans get to celebrate kwanza so why can’t Christians celebrate Christmas with the Christ in it. If you don’t want to celebrate it like us fine but don’t make the whole damn world give up the Christ in Christmas!!!!! Thanks for posting. We are now forcing the Christ on anyone so don’t force us to forget it.
Meghan on November 5th, 2008 at 12:49 pm | Link
I never understood the problem. If a jewish man told me happy channikah( sorry if I spelled it wrong ) I wouldn’t be offended. I would simply wish him a Merry Christmas. Everyone is so easy to offend anymore. You wont hear happy holidays out of my mouth. I believe Jesus Christ died for our sins and I tell people Merry Christmas. If you dont believe thats fine. Just wish me a happy great pumpkin day or a merry wally the savior wombat day or whatever it is you’re celebrating and I’ll be cool with that. So Merry F-ing Christmas!
sarge on November 5th, 2008 at 3:04 pm | Link
I think there’s a pretty general consensus from most sides that it’s not offensive for people of different beliefs to with us a happy/merry whatever-they-celebrate. This is just one of many conventions that have been short-handed by our oversensitivity to the least common denominator. If one single person is offended by something, we tend to overreact in order to not be perceived as callous or unjust.
My wife and I started driving 45 minutes north (as opposed to 15 minutes south previously) just to Christmas shop at a Wal-Mart store where associates wish us “Merry Christmas”. Even if it was “Happy Hannukah” that they wished us, we’d still have decided to keep going, simply because they were legitimate, sincere people. I’m becoming numb to our oversensitized society. Blegh.
Sub1ime14 on November 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pm | Link
The word ‘merry’ has been tied to christmas so long that the word used out of holiday context is pretty wierd to hear. Either way, I find Christmas to be annoying anyhow, so the less I have to hear about it, the better. Holidays that aren’t humanistic are silly anyhow. Who cares if people say holiday or christmas? Only creationists (of any religious faith) care about something so silly. I’d wish you a merry christmas when you wish me a happy winter solstice!
Why do people laugh at creationists? Only creationists don’t understand why.
Meat on December 1st, 2008 at 5:25 pm | Link