[Pan_Yans Wife]

holiday = holy + day

[finnman69]

Happy UN Day to you too.

[FeliciaCat]

Its not so much the word "Christmas" that the PC Nazi's hate as it is "God"....

[ArrogantBustard]

The baby Jesus has been sacrificed not only to the deity of commercialism whose idol is The Fat Bastard in the Red Suit.

[RightWhale]

Last day of class yesterday. The prof wished everyone a great semester break. I wished everybody a Merry Christmas! It was great, the looks on people's faces.

-Ebenezer

[johnb838]

Forget about Festivus, the holiday for the Restofus. Forget the Festivus Pole, the Feats of Strength.

It's Christmas! Christmas, CHRISTmas, CHRISTMAS!!! IT's CHRISTMAS!

[drella8566]

Foxnews ran a poll last night saying 96% of Americans celebrate Christmas. So what's with the "Holiday" crap?

[mr.pink]

I was upstate NY for Thanksgiving and was amazed that 90% of the clerks and cashiers said "Happy Holiday" instead of "Happy Thanksgiving".

I'm still scratching my head over that.

[Puppage]

This is the way the secularist/leftists do things...they take away the word Christams, or God. Little by little, by little. Get you used to the idea of living without these words.

That way, when they go to remove even MORE words you'll be so used to it, ya won't even put up a fuss.

[xzins]

We just finished Ramadan. How in the world did I know that?

Chanukah seems OK. That can be said.

These won't be the first to hate Christ, will they?

[Kenton]

This wouldn't be nearly so galling, if it wasn't for the fact that Christianity, alone among the major religions, has been singled out for this disrespectful treatment. This stuff has been gradually sneaking up on us for years, but for the first time, I'm hearing LOTS of people speaking up about it.

That's great. The only reason the PC Nazis have managed to subvert our lives so completely is that we have allowed it to happen. The more people who bring this issue into the light, the sooner reasonable voices will prevail. So talk about it this Christmas.

Let those dour, humorless gender extremists, multicultural pimps, and radical secularists in the PC Police know that you are offended when they treat the word "Christmas" as if somebody dropped the "F Bomb", and that from here on, you will no longer tolerate this discriminatory and oppressive policy. Then savor the expression on their faces...

[americanSoul]

Let's see now, what would be the fate of someone in any of the Mideast lunocracies suggested using the Holiday instead of Ramadan?

[upchuck]

Another article^ on this topic.

Let's keep Christ in Christmas, what say?

[immykidsmom]

I agree that all christians should celebrate Christmas, and all jewish people should celebrate Hanukkah. The problem arises when business are trying to reach customers who are not christian. People who celebrate Hanukkah don't buy Christmas gifts, they buy Hanukkah gifts. So why not advertise HOLIDAY gifts and wish customers a HAPPY HOLIDAY and kill two birds with one stone? Makes sense to me, as much as I am bothered by the consumerism this time of year. Let's put it in perspective for schools, too. I am tired of all of the folks upset about schools no longer having Christmas programs and parties. If you want to have a Christmas program, have a Haunuka program, too. Open schools to all religions or none at all.

[meowmeow]

If you want to p!ss off the postal clerks, ask for Mary and Jesus stamps (I was informed they were Madonna and child stamps).

I've started calling our office "holiday party" a Christmas party (my cube happens to be organizing it this year) and no one has questioned it - in fact, the term has caught on. We have a Christmas Tree, people will bring presents, and we're getting a big ham (so it can't be Islam). I have yet to see some Jewish cuisine at any of these parties (and a good blintz would certainly be welcome). We got too many white folk for Kwanza. So unless someone can explain what Holiday (with an H) we are celebrating, we are going to celebrate Christmas.

[rllngrk33]

Simple solution is to say Merry Christmas to anyone who wishes you a "happy holiday" or some such silly generic greeting. I've said this to a couple of people and told them I don't believe in generic holiday greetings.

[nutmeg]

Merry Christmas ping! :-)

[yatros from flatwater]

Actually, to be a bit of an historical curmudgeon, the December 25 date has more to do with Mithras (natalis soli invicti) than Yeshua ben Yosef, the son of Miryam and Yosef of Natzaret. He was much more likely to have been born during one of the pilgrim feasts prescibed by the Torah.

The Roman Catholic Church appropriated the date for a variety of reasons around 350 AD. The Eastern bishops never did completely buy into the date. For a source, see the Catholic Encyclopedia .

[nutmeg]

At the rate things are going, we'll be lucky if the worst editing done to "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is the current hack job ABC does by putting commercials where they were never meant to be. If the animators wanted to begin creating that show now, and have Linus tell us what Christmas is all about, would the project ever get off the ground, or would we have to endure "A Charlie Brown Holiday"?

I'm actually amazed - and pleased - that "A Charlie Brown Christmas" runs every year as it is with no PC changes to its 30-year-old (?) script.

[BiteMedems]

I'm in really good Christmas spirits so is my wife, myself especially since after today I'm off till Jan 2. I'll be doing my Freeping from home and not my cubie.


MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR FREEPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!