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The Brouhaha Over "Christmas"

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December 12, 2005 9:27:55 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
War on Christmas

The hot button issue this time of year is the use of "Happy Holidays" as opposed to "Merry Christmas." This passage here sums up exactly what so many American Christians feel and why:


Fifty years ago no Christian would have taken offense to “Happy Holidays”. Now that many Christians do is not, as our shocked liberals believe, a vicious political radicalism infecting the right-wing wackos – rather is it that the meaning of “Happy Holidays” has changed. It still does mean “Happy Holidays” but it has been, through the mandates of retail employers, ad campaigns, and general cultural ubiquity come to be the approved, sanitized, politically correct thing to say. Two years ago one of my fellow retail clerks, a Christian by baptism, was offended by my using the word “Christmas” freely with customers. This my friends is not sensitivity - it is a ghetto mentality. Now that the word “Holiday” has been taken to include Kwanza and Hanukkah and New Year’s – it is starting to strike at Christian symbols – we have “Holiday Trees” and “traditional holiday stockings”. You know, like Jews have “Holiday candle-holders.”
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ParaTed2k
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Reply #1 December 12, 2005 10:50:52 PM
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True!! I wonder how staunch Jewish people would react to that term "Holiday Candleholder", or what if we called the "Winter Soltice" the Cold Witches Dance... or wished someone "Happy Horning 9!!" ;~D
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Reply #2 December 13, 2005 12:27:20 AM
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It's hard to break a habit, but know the person to whom your saying Merry Christmas--he could be terrorist.
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Reply #3 December 13, 2005 5:48:09 AM
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but it has been, through the mandates of retail employers, ad campaigns, and general cultural ubiquity


well, at least he's honest enuff to direct his whining in the right direction.

Two years ago one of my fellow retail clerks, a Christian by baptism, was offended by my using the word “Christmas” freely with customers. This my friends is not sensitivity - it is a ghetto mentality


it's neither. just good marketing for merchants out to make all the money they can and see no sense in excluding anyone with a buck.

i could get behind replacing all the silly pagan elves, holly, candycanes--unless you're one of the neo-traditionalists who sees them as lil shepherd's crooks--mistletoe and music fulla jingling bells, drums and nonsensical lyrics sung by burl & bing with a low-hey respectful, reverent ritualistic, religious-only faith-based low-key, tasteful midnight til dusk observance.

ho ho ho
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Reply #4 December 13, 2005 9:31:06 AM
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I think that blogger has a good point.
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Reply #5 December 13, 2005 3:30:31 PM
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it's neither. just good marketing for merchants out to make all the money they can and see no sense in excluding anyone with a buck.
Now this is a blogger with a telling point. If you misaddress, it's only ten percent of the time--but wait Jews don't shop--they sell--during xmas, I presume callously?

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