It’s Time to Dump ‘Happy Holidays’

Concerned Women for America ^ | 12.23.2003 | Robert Knight

[Coleus]

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[Coleus]

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[milford421]

Thank you Coleus...

Already wrote my letter to Federated, (Macy's and Bloomies), and didn't spend a dime of my Christmas money in either.

So many people have become oblivious to this re-programming. I found that when I specifically pointed out to them that the "holiday" was Christmas, they realized how easily they had fallen into the trap.

They now wish me a Merry Christmas.

Hey...Macy's couldn't bring themselves to wish us a Merry Christmas but had no problem advertising "After Christmas" Sales...

[Aussie Dasher]

In Australia this past Christmas, one of our major television networks decided it would go down the "Happy Holidays" path. After just one evening of captioning its promotions with "HH", it reverted to the more traditional "Merry Christmas" and "Seasons Greetings". Why?

Because all hell broke lose. Infuriated by what was clearly an anti-Christmas message, the network, as well as radio and newspapers were inundated with protests and complaints.

This battle was over quickly. Others will take longer. It comes down to whether we want to protect Christmas more than they want to destroy it.

[Coleus]

"After Christmas" Sales... .>>>

anything for the almighty dollar.

[Bonaparte]

And the same goes for "Seasons Greetings!"

[Cobra64]

Merry Christmas!

The process is very simple.

When I shop, I just do not boycott the, Happy Holidays" store mentality.

When I have a few hundred dollars worth of merchandise in the cart, when the clerk looks at me and says, "Happy Hollidays," I loogk at her and say, Merry Christmas, you know it is the Christmas Season, correect?"

If she does not respond, "Merry Christmas Mr. Davis;" I ask for my Amex card back, and respond to her --- again, "Merry Christmas," and give her a smile and leave my cart in the line, and walk out of the store.

This approach is truly buying/purchasing by your feet.

If enough folks understood this process and a major retailer had hundreds of full baskets needing to be restocked on the shelves, chaos would occur, and the Division Managers would go nuts.

I worked for Sears back a long time ago. The Christmas Season is hectic as hell.

Now if management can't get it, well F'em. Because they do not belong to be in business.

[ppaul]

Same goes for the use of BCE and CE ("Before Common Era" and "Common Era") to replace BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini "In the Year of our Lord") by the radical secularists who want any reference to Jesus Christ expunged from our calendars and our culture.

DON'T LET 'EM GET AWAY WITH IT!!!

[ppaul]

[sinkspur]

It's time to STOP TALKING ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS!

Give it a rest, will ya?

[Coleus]

The PC police are always out there if it's not Christmas then it's something else. I'll give it a rest after the 12th day of Christmas. My tree is still up and outside lights ON.

[Dashing Dasher]

My birthday is coming up - let's talk about that instead!!!

[msnimje]

I keep waiting for someone to object to the name of the RED CROSS. There will be a great calling for them to change their name to:

The Red Plus Sign

[ETERNAL WARMING]

We need to keep a list of who wished us a Merry Christmas and who didn't so next year we can disseminate the info and boycott those stores. If they won't wish me a Merry Christmas, they can make it to the black ink without a dime from me. If enough of us do it, they'll never make it out of the red.

[blackbart1]

We need to inform and educated through the year till next Christmas. Wonderful article.

[Denver Ditdat]

Let's delete any reference to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and start referring to his birthday as "The January Holiday".

That should go over well with the PC crowd.

[sevry]

It's fairly easy for me. I don't like Macys. And while others like Costco and Mervyns were not exactly Christmas friendly, I still like the stores quite a bit. I can't say I'll forget 2004, though. There was something militant in this years denial of Christmas. It's left a bad taste, for many people. Wal-Mart, while they allowed the Salvation Army, apparently also outlawed Christmas. I hadn't purchased that much there, in the past, though I thought they did a good job with the stores. But now I'm reconsidering. I think, marginally, a lot of these retailers who 'didn't want to offend' obviously didn't mind offending a whole host of their customers in the process. And I think they're going to pay for it, in 2005.

[dvan]

The Christmas celebration in this country and much of the world has been secularized so much that Jesus wouldn't even it was to honor His birthday. If the secularists want to ban it- maybe we should give them their way. Let me explain. They don't have any problem selling their wares do they? They were even panhandling on the media- to get out and buy during the season. Many companies depend on the Christmas Season to spike their year end sales. Some companies like toys, Christmas lighting, tourism, resturants, grocery stores are totally geared up for sales. If Christians began to celebrate the way it should be done with their families and gave up massive spending the market would soon feel the pain. I mean all of them, the non-Christians that are hawking wares and profiting by it. If you look in your front yard at the decorations would anyone know Whose birthday it was supposed to be? A lot of irrelvant things that have no part of it. Santa Claus??? Reindeers? The cities that are banning Christian parades or participation in parades, caroling and such certainly depend on the Season dont they for the massive amounts of tourism and sales and hotel taxes. Maybe it should cost Scrooge some lost revenues. Then see how quick their silliness would stop! (One man's Opinion)

[loboinok]

If the secularists want to ban it- maybe we should give them their way. Let me explain.


Sounds to me like you are killing two birds with one stone.
I like the results.

[Coop]

I personally like the phrase (and song) "Happy Holidays." But as a supplement to "Merry Christmas," not a PC replacement for it.