Christmas: crucified by do-gooders ["Happy holidays" implies Christianity's an unspeakable crime]

telegraph.co.uk ^ | December 8, 2006 | Jeff Randall

[freedomdefender]

My rubbish bin is full of Christmas cards. ...The discarded items have one thing in common: they are not Christmas cards at all, by which I mean, as well as having no Christian images, Nativity scenes etc, they don't even mention the "C" word. I'm afraid that "happy holidays" simply will not do.

Before you ask, I haven't become a weirdo fundamentalist. This is not a matter of religiosity (I flicker somewhere between an agnostic and a mild believer). My protest is about resisting those who seem hell bent on turning Christianity into a crime.

In the United Kingdom, this time of year is a Christian festival — as it should be. It is part of our heritage. You don't have to be a fire-and-brimstone evangelist to respect a faith that still underpins traditional British values and institutions, even though much of its spiritual message was lost long ago in a fog of consumerism. Jettisoning Christmas-less cards is my tiny, almost certainly futile, gesture against the dark forces of political correctness. It's a swipe at those who would prefer to abolish Christmas altogether, in case it offends "minorities". Someone should tell them that, with only one in 15 Britons going to church on Sundays, Christians are a minority.

[Savage Beast]

I make it a point to say "Merry Christmas".

[freedomdefender]

"Jettisoning Christmas-less cards is my tiny, almost certainly futile, gesture against the dark forces of political correctness. It's a swipe at those who would prefer to abolish Christmas altogether, in case it offends "minorities"."

INCLUDING THE GEORGE BUSH NON-CHRISTMAS "HOLIDAY" CARD, SORRY TO SAY.

[A. Pole]

I'm afraid that "happy holidays" simply will not do.

You can respond: "which holidays?" And then say "Happy/Merry [whatever it is]"

[CindyDawg]

Not too fond of Fundamentalists or Evangelists, is he? I keep all my cards and date them and put them up every year. Inside most there are notes and usually a Merry Christmas. If I can get an address I would be glad to send him a real Christmas Card though.

[BW2221]

I'm doing my part - boycotting Best Buy.

[BonnieJ]

For the first time since 2000 when G.W.Bush was still Gov. Bush, I haven't received a Christmas card from him. At least not yet. Maybe it's because I didn't give to the mid-term elections! Have most of them been received by now?

[GSlob]

There is a season cartoon by the late Claude Serre [could be made into a card]: a maternity ward waiting room. On the right three wise men sitting, in crowns and turbans, each holding a small gift chest, smoking. Ashtray, full of cigarette butts. On the left Joseph in a rough robe, standing. A bull and a donkey. In the center the delivery room door is opened, and a nurse stands in it, holding the newborn twins.

[Guenevere]

So do I.

Sad it has come to this....almost a combative situation.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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MERRY CHRISTMAS, Everybody...

http://www.lzxray.com/Ronnie3.jpg

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[little jeremiah]

Later pingout.

[sageb1]

"I make it a point to say "Merry Christmas"."

I've never said anything else.

[Fiji Hill]

Happy Saturnalia!

[CyberAnt]

B I N G O!!!

I DO THIS TOO - I REFUSE TO BE SILENT!

[combat_boots]

MERRY CHRISTMAS to a great American hero, AR.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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The TRUE American Heroes:

http://www.moderndayheroes.com/aloha

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[combat_boots]

BAMM's books for troops program:

http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books/help/troops?id=3657200836411

And the megalist:
http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/AmericaSupportsYou/send_packages.html

[BW2221]

Did you get a Ramadan greeting from Bush proclaiming Islam is the "religion of peace?"

[devolve]

[potlatch]

Beautiful! Laughing my head off, was I giving you suggestions about posting things on that?