Marry Christmas or Happy Holiday?

[BaseRSX]

Well the hardcore Christians have waged war over this in America this year. They want to â??put Christ back in Christmasâ?�. Personally I have always said â??Happy Holidayâ?�. I think its better because there are at least 5 different holidays together in about a monthâ??s time â?? Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years, and Kwanzaa. Also I think itâ??s rude to assume someone is Christian and is celebrating Christmas.

What do you think?

[Psycho4Bud]

I'm no big Christian type but when the department stores that line their pockets with my CHRISTMAS money should have no gripe on a store attendant saying "Merry Christman" or "Happy Holidays". :twocents:

[Oneironaut]

I don't celebrate Christmas (Christ mass) or holidays (holy days), being an atheist. They are equally offensive to my worldview.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Merry Christmas... not marry haha :D

[Psycho4Bud]

I don't celebrate Christmas (Christ mass) or holidays (holy days), being an atheist. They are equally offensive to my worldview.

That is definately your choice and it's nice to see someone hold to their convictions but do you feel offended if a store clerk says that during holiday seasons or do you just blow it off?

[Oneironaut]

Do you, BaseRSX, take Christmas to be your lawfully wedded wife, to live together in the holy state of matrimony?

[BaseRSX]

I don't celebrate Christmas (Christ mass) or holidays (holy days), being an atheist. They are equally offensive to my worldview.

Thatâ??s the point. New Years is a non religious Holiday. I thought everyone celebrates at least bring in the New Year... Thatâ??s why I say Happy Holiday.

[dirty raider]

I think it's a fair term to use in a mainly Christian country and I don't think it really offends anyone. People just like to make a fuss over nothing.

[Oneironaut]

That is definately your choice and it's nice to see someone hold to their convictions but do you feel offended if a store clerk says that during holiday seasons or do you just blow it off?
Of course I'm not offended. I live in a deeply religious country and I can't get offended every time anybody expresses their religiosity, or assumes that I'm religious. I'll usually just smile and say thanks. No need to get into heated debates with strangers or hold pointless grudges against them.

[jahjahjahjah]

I dont believe in celibration im a johovise wittness.LOL

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Happy Holidays seems to be more of an American thing, I've never heard a single person say it over here. Everyone says "Merry Christmas :)"

[Psycho4Bud]

Of course I'm not offended. I live in a deeply religious country and I can't get offended every time anybody expresses their religiosity, or assumes that I'm religious. I'll usually just smile and say thanks. No need to get into heated debates with strangers or hold pointless grudges against them.

Very cool attitude. :thumbsup:

[vincevaper]

I agree with some former press secretary I saw interviewed on the issue. The whole current controversy over Shrub's greeting card and tree is a sad sign of national insecurity. I'm not offended by any form of the greeting, but feel more personally addressed when it takes my own faith or lack of into account... which is why a generic term is used when addressing many people. It's etiquette really. That's all.

Of course, the right wing are using this issue of etiquette to polarize people about the separation between church and state. That's something that I find more worrisome than what a greeter at Wal-Mart might say to me.

[Nullific]

Typical of the Christians to play victim. This is simply the month where advertising and materialism become most prominent and all the stores lower the prices on their previously marked up merchandise to make the public feel like they are saving money. Then everybody sends each other cards and has little parties with their families where they all gather round and pretend to love each other and be happy.

So happy fucking advertising extravaganza and don't forget to shit your hard earned money away all in the name of Jesus Christ.

[beachguy in thongs]

The whole fucken idea behind it is that it sounds better.

Merry Christmas sounds cool.

Happy Holidays sounds gay.

When I think of Christmas, I remember that movie from when I was younger, about Christmas (it had it in the title), when that little kid with black glasses and blond hair got his tongue stuck to a pole and shot himself in the eye with a B.B. gun.

I think of Happy Holidays, I think of Wal-Mart.

God or no God, Jesus Christ or no Jesus Christ, Christmas is a tradition.

Happy Hannukah.

[DonnieDarko]

Here are my thoughts ....

December 25 is Christmas, a holy day for Christians
December 26 through Jan 1 are the holidays for everybody
The shopping days before Christmas is HELL.

Those who are offended by a word should get over it.

[ladyM]

Festive Yuletide to all and to all a Festive Doobie

[Whos Carl]

Festive greeting to all that read this.

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[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Merry Christmas, all of you :D

[flamingskullballs]

i think that "Christmas" is a say which people gather and have fun...it has been so watered down from its roots, that i dont even hold a religious feeling to it...to me, its a season where we hold miraculous parties, and get together...give to eachother...i see it as more of a season of love than a season of church...

[chillin]

merry christmas to all :rasta: :dance:

[darkside]

Why choose just one when you can have both? :thumbsup:

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

MERRY fuckin' CHRISTMAS :D

[GanjaASD847]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS sounds appropriate because then you're not offending anyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas! ;) :stoned:

[beachguy in thongs]

i think that "Christmas" is a say which people gather and have fun...it has been so watered down from its roots, that i dont even hold a religious feeling to it...to me, its a season where we hold miraculous parties, and get together...give to eachother...i see it as more of a season of love than a season of church...
If you go to Midnight Mass, you'll see a whole bunch of hot chicks.

[MudFu]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS sounds appropriate because then you're not offending anyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas!

I agree...but they shouldn't take it offencive. Not our falte that it is our celebration and that it is how we greet people this time of the year. If someone said happy chunaka (I think I spelled it wrong...Lol) to me I wouldn't not think it as an insult. It is their celebration and its how they greet someone on their holiday. I think its a pack of crap that it has to change and that its being made a big deal about it

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays

And if thats too offence for anyone, well screw yeas Lol.

[UnViaje]

its all about the presents, or just giving n receiving for that matter. it really shouldnt be any type of saying, fukk religion. rejoice bitches

[Torog]

Well the hardcore Christians have waged war over this in America this year. They want to â??put Christ back in Christmasâ?�. Personally I have always said â??Happy Holidayâ?�. I think its better because there are at least 5 different holidays together in about a monthâ??s time â?? Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years, and Kwanzaa. Also I think itâ??s rude to assume someone is Christian and is celebrating Christmas.

What do you think?
Howdy Base,

Back in the sixties and seventies,when I was growing up,there was only 'Merry Christmas'..there wasn't no dang Kwanzaa either. Then the pc crowd came along and started telling us that we were offending folks of other religions..and it's gone downhill since. My gal is Jewish and I tell her Happy Hanukkah,when it's time to do so,this year,it just happens to start on Christmas night,and I will say Happy Hanukkah,everyday until it's over. I'm supposed to give her a gift everyday,but I'm too poor to do that..it's the thought that counts anyhow.

I think that all of this pc'ism is just a back-handed way of slapping Christians in the face and another means of relegating Christians to the back-room. I also believe that it's part of a larger agenda to banish God and Jesus,from the public square..and turn America into something which it ain't-a nation of secular progressives who've turned their backs on their Creator.

Have a good one ....

PS: Merry Christmas !

[yAwn]

I don't celebrate Christmas (Christ mass) or holidays (holy days), being an atheist. They are equally offensive to my worldview.

Way to ruin the spirit of the holidays, you anarcho-liberal socialist commie liberal Jew commie liberal commie liberal commie socialist commie liberal bastard! :) hehe, Merry Xmas, ermitontonaut.. :p

I'm an atheist too, i'm sure i've made that clear by now, but I still celebrate Christmas because it's fun, that's the only reason. In fact I don't 'celebrate' anything at Christmas, I just get drunk occasionally, eat loads of nice food, buy people presents, recieve presents from people, spend time with the people I love, and score with a relatively hot chick, which is something we don't do enough of, I think.. :p But I don't give a shit about the whole deal with Christmas, it's just an excuse to have fun, and life#s all about fun so why the fuck not? :)

[GanjaASD847]

I agree...but they shouldn't take it offencive. Not our falte that it is our celebration and that it is how we greet people this time of the year. If someone said happy chunaka (I think I spelled it wrong...Lol) to me I wouldn't not think it as an insult. It is their celebration and its how they greet someone on their holiday. I think its a pack of crap that it has to change and that its being made a big deal about it

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays

And if thats too offence for anyone, well screw yeas Lol.

SO TRUE! :p

[Nullific]

Poor Torog doesn't realize it is damn near 2006. I did some research and it turns out that there actually was a dang Kwanzaa in the sixties and seventies. In fact it was founded in 1966 by Maulana Karenga as a "celebration with focus on the traditional African values of family, community responsibility, commerce, and self-improvement". (But I suppose to Torog that translates to "liberal commie negros pushing their homosexual adgendas upon American youth".)
It turns out Kwanzaa isn't a religious holiday at all but a cultural one. After all us white folks get to prance around glowing indoor pine trees and give each other bullshit why can't other races do their own thing?

[robert42]

Merry Xmas All!!!