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To: bray

Anybody get major hostility from saying Merry Christmas this year. It was like nobody wanted to say it.


117 posted on 12/23/2018 7:31:52 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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F Chuck declares “We have made the shutdown too easy”

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119 posted on 12/23/2018 7:36:46 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bray

Actually I have heard it,Merry Christmas, more this year than in past years.People are incensed at being forced to call is a holiday instead of Christmas and are revolting,IMHO.


125 posted on 12/23/2018 7:43:16 AM PST by rodguy911 (Maga: USA supports Trump. Home of the Free because of the brave.)
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To: bray

My habit is to wish everyone I can a Merry Christmas. Including folks I speak with on the phone, store clerks, of course the Salvation Army bell ringers, etc.

Being in South Carolina, most folks respond positively. Every now and then I get static or just no response. I figure those folks are Yankee imports or maybe just here for the nice winter weather.


188 posted on 12/23/2018 10:11:43 AM PST by upchuck (Q: What high crime has Trump committed? A: He won the 2016 Presidential election. ~ h/t dartuser)
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To: bray

I’ve been out in LA two weeks ago and then in DC last week.

I said Merry Christmas to everyone and almost always got a very Merry Christmas back. A couple even said it with a tone of relief!

One federal worker at the Department of Labor, where I was teaching, said she preferred Happy Holidays out of respect for other religions.

I remarked back to her that December 25th is in fact a FEDERAL holiday and is named “Christmas” in the federal registry. So Merry Christmas can be said by and to all Americans as that is the name of this secular holiday, as the US Government doesn’t have religious holidays. You can be any—or no—religion and it is still a federal day off.

She nodded as that seemed to actually make sense to her.

I mean, really, Merry Christmas is an innocuous term when you think about it; not proselytizing at all to ask some one to have a happy day, no? It’s not like you said “He is born” or the “Savior has arrived!”.

So the atheists can say “Merry Christmas” as it is, for them, “Have a Happy, joyful day on this end of the year federal day off form work.” Just easier to say.


209 posted on 12/23/2018 2:51:59 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Boycott ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC!)
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