Merry Christmas
Happy Channukah
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Posted on 11/22/2005 7:36:12 AM PST by Alouette
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Merry Christmas, everyone.
I'm guessing most of this anti-Christmas sentiment comes from the athesist, America-hating left and not the Jewish population.
Yes, and God bless us all...now back to work Cratchet!
All this concern about wishing a Merry Christmas during Advent. The Christmas season extends for 12 days, but when was the last time anyone wished you a Merry Christmas on December 28th?
Excellent points! I don't want to hear "Merry Christmas" in the first half of November, thanks very much. Nor in the first half of December ...
I think there would be much less conflict about "Christmas" if it hadn't taken over two whole months of the year.
Oh no! The C word!!! Actually I saw a "Christmas Blend" in Starbucks and was wondering what happened. They actually said the C word in their ads. Simply amazing.
I consider myself a fairly observant Jew, and I truly enjoyed the Thanksgiving and Christmas assemblies at my grammar school in the 1960s in suburban Chicago. We sang songs with religious overtones (including, for example, Silent Night -- in English and German), and I never felt ostracised, discriminated against, made to feel out of the mainstream, etc.
On the other hand, I remember once in the late 1980s, while working at a large corporate law firm in NYC, I called out "Merry Christmas" to the lawyers and support staff who were still working when I left on Christmas Eve, and they looked at me with a silent reproach, like I had spit into the soup.
I think there would be much less conflict about "Christmas" if it hadn't been turned into a secular holiday during the first half of the 20th Century. As I see it, because Christmas moved into American culture during a period in which the US was still evolving its separation of church and state, the holiday became increasingly stripped of its religious meaning. By being something for everyone, ironically, the holiday became nothing significant.
In my opinion, the best thing to do to give Christmas its original, religious, meaning, would be to give it back to the church and de-emphasize it in the American cultural calendar, where it means nothing more than sales, football games and time off from work for most Americans.
Yep, I tell my Jewish friends Happy New Year at Rosh Hoshana, protect religious freedom, don't water it down!
Happymerry ChrismaHanaKwanzikah
Happy Channukah
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I agree. I think all religious holidays should be observed in homes and religious institutions, not in offices and schools. In my opinion, the tendency for offices and schools to be treated as the center of people's lives is damaging in many ways.
Merry Christmas to all.
There, I said it.
The Jews in France are leaving because they are too small in numbers to affect legislation that would protect all PEACEFUL religions and actually assisted in the secularization of the country. Hopefully they have learned the lesson that Christians will be their staunchest allies. If they will let them be.
Thanks for the article.
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