Comments on: “Happy Holidays” And NOT “Merry Christmas” Anymore

By: Nicholaus Robishaw

Nicholaus Robishaw — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:47:14 +0000

Happy holidays is for all holidays which includes christmas.

By: whitechapel

whitechapel — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:03:09 +0000

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.

By: all american

all american — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:43:34 +0000

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

By: sienna

sienna — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:02:25 +0000

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.

By: cqhdqts

cqhdqts — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:45:04 +0000

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!

By: Meat

Meat — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:25:15 +0000

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.

By: Sub1ime14

Sub1ime14 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:21:01 +0000

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.

By: sarge

sarge — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:04:23 +0000

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!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:49:31 +0000

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.