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
Dudes…your right! I going to say Merry f’n Christmas on the Fourth of July and Happy Holidays when its Columbus day. Happy Holidays you Native Americans and Merry Christmas jewish people…now give me some of that fine feathered holiday turkey and stop hording the kosher oatmeal bars. Hail Myles Standish!
cqhdqts on January 28th, 2009 at 9:45 pm | Link
People say Happy Holidays in order to not offend people of other faiths and non-faiths who don’t celebrate Christmas. Why you would be upset about that is beyond me. Plus, Jesus wasn’t born in December so the whole thing is ridiculous anyway.
sienna on January 28th, 2009 at 11:02 pm | Link
personally as a hater of all religions, i could care less if people said happy holidays or not, but i would rather them say that then say merry christmas because no one is asking you to forget jesus if he existed or not but thats another argument anyway theyre just including other religions, anways, catholics are pundits that get offended when people dont like them but they deserve it because they are the biggest bigots of them all
all american on March 5th, 2009 at 6:43 pm | Link
Well, that’s odd because all I hear where I live is Merry Christmas this and Merry Christmas that. This includes advertising and radio and such. It has never been prohibited wherever I’ve worked but was just a personal choice. And seriously, Christmas is actually was a pagan holiday (that has nothing to do with Christianity) adopted centuries after Jesus died, a careful reading of the scriptures as well as star charts show that Jesus wasn’t born in December, and Santa is an overblown, unrelated concept that now serves to promote capitalism.
You can celebrate and believe what you like, of course. But take that discrimination you feel and then think of how it must feel to never have your holiday recognized. No one is trying to take away your holiday; they just want theirs recognized too.
whitechapel on March 26th, 2009 at 5:03 pm | Link
Happy holidays is for all holidays which includes christmas.
I am not a christian and would rather not reveal my beleives for fear of reprisal but I used to be very offended when people said happy christmas as I do not beleive in it. In my country we would only all speak of one religion and there was no problem but in UK many people offend me with their religion. I came here and can not stand it to be honest but I like my house and Jeremy Kyle show so I would rather stay here. I would like to think that all you small minded people would give our religion a chance and not squash it with you little views.
Adam Nancy on August 17th, 2010 at 7:11 am | Link