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Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?

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Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays

  • Merry Christmas

    Votes: 47 78.3%

  • Happy Holidays

    Votes: 13 21.7%
  • Total voters
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OSUsushichic said:
You can thank your buddy Bill O'Reilly for that. Have you personally felt that you cannot celebrate your holiday the way you want?
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I have not watched Bill O'Reilly for months. Is that his current fight?

I'm just tired of it all. If people say Happy Hanukhah to me or in front of me it doesn't bother me. OR if they want to have a Kwanzaa party.

Who freaking cares! Deal with it.
 
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This is probably a very different question for those who live in a homogeneous bubble as opposed to those who don't. :biggrin:

I say Merry Christmas to those who celebrate Christmas. I don't say Merry Christmas to Jews, Muslims, etc.
 
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kinch said:
This is probably a very different question for those who live in a homogeneous bubble as opposed to those who don't. :biggrin:

I say Merry Christmas to those who celebrate Christmas. I don't say Merry Christmas to Jews, Muslims, etc.
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Same here. I mainly use Happy Holidays for a group of people (like my coworkers) whose religion I might not know.
 
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Holiday comes from 'Holy Day', so it's not so terrible.

The day could probably use a little more 'holy' and a lot less commercialization.

A few years ago I gave bottles of sparkling wine to everybody in the department I worked in. Including a Muslim guy who felt bad about returning it to me and explaining that he didn't touch any alcohol as part of his religion. I felt like the idiot I had been, and gave him a gift certificate instead.

But I didn't think it was necessary for him to stuff a rag in the bottle and light it before throwing it back at me. :biggrin:
 
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Thump said:
It has nothing to do with that, we can't even put up any holiday decorations in our school b/c of it.

No Christmas parties or anything.
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Christmas is the only religious holiday that is also a federal holiday, so if they want to keep it out of schools than drop it as a federal holiday. Otherwise it's just asking for trouble.

The Daily Show had a pretty funny joke about this. Something along the lines of: "Christmas is the only religious holiday that is also a federal holiday, leaving all of those who don't celebrate Christmas to enjoy their day off sitting at home contemplating the seperation of Church and state."

I thought it was funny. :)
 
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I say happy holidays becasue I am too lazy to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Years. I also don't feel the need to validate myself and act like a Rebel because I refuse to say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Chrsitmas!!!:slappy: I agree with Thump in who cares. It is the gesture that matters, it is cool if someone wants to say Merry Christmas
Happy Hannukah, Happy Quanzaa, Happy Festivus who cares.. kick ass you have your believes I have mine.

I do think we are in a sorry ass state that kids can not create holiday decorations and stuff in class because of the BS. Even when I was in school kids would create things for their holiday or if the did not celebrate any holiday they would make something totally different. In fact we are depriving our kids a good learning experience by not exposing them to the different cultures and what not. I learned a lot from the 'other' kids who were Jewish, Jehovah Witnesses, Muslim from such things. In no way do I think these kids were made to feel inferior or anything to that effect.
 
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