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Say It Loud and Say It Proud: MERRY CHRISTMAS! (Secular humanists as Ebenezer Scrooge)
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| December 4, 2003
| A. E. Huggett
Posted on 12/04/2003 10:30:05 AM PST by quidnunc
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posted on
12/04/2003 10:30:07 AM PST
by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
I ALWAYS say Merry Christmas and never Happy Holidays. If it weren't for Christ, there wouldn't be Christmas. Not very hard to understand.
To: quidnunc
I was delighted to hear last night on Emeril Live, the Harlem Boys' Choir singing "O Come All Ye Faithful". It brought tears to my eyes.
This morning on the way to work, our local radio station was playing a commercial with "Joy to the World" in the background.
To: quidnunc
Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/04/2003 10:39:18 AM PST
by
talleyman
(The ACLU is a terrorist organization.)
To: GrandmaPatriot
One sure way to upset many of your liberal friends is to send them religious-themed Christmas cards.
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posted on
12/04/2003 10:41:44 AM PST
by
GSWarrior
To: quidnunc
Merry Christmas and All God's Blessings for a Joyous New Year!!!
We give "Jesus' Birthday Presents" to each other on the big day, besides the Santa presents. We try to keep it Holy!
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posted on
12/04/2003 10:43:14 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(He who angers you, controls you!)
To: GrandmaPatriot
I have no problem using the term "Happy Holidays," since I work in an environment where there are a number of non-Christians. There is nothing more idiotic, however, than the use of the term "Xmas" -- either it's Christmas, or it's not.
Actually, there IS something more idiotic . . . it's the bizarre use of the phrase "Turkey Day" instead of "Thanksgiving" -- as if we're engaging in some kind of pagan worship of a freakin' bird.
The weird thing is that my Jewish boss uses the term "Christmas" all the time when discussing holiday preparations for the company, sending greeting cards to clients, etc. LOL.
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posted on
12/04/2003 10:45:57 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(Alberta -- the TRUE North strong and free.)
To: talleyman
Last night for the lighting of the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, many musician sang secular songs about Frosty the Snowman and generic love stuff. However, Jessica Simpson (whose father, I think, is a Baptist Minister) and her husband Nick Lachay opened the show with "Silent Night." Kudos, Newlyweds.
To: quidnunc
OMG!
I have already prepared those around me that this year I am not saying happy holidays I am saying "MERRY CHRISTMAS" and I am putting up a manger at work!
F$ck those liberals I am ready to fight them
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posted on
12/04/2003 10:51:03 AM PST
by
hapy
To: GSWarrior
One sure way to upset many of your liberal friends is to send them religious-themed Christmas cards. I have no liberal friends. If you're a liberal, you're not my friend.
To: quidnunc
"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew: "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
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posted on
12/04/2003 11:01:36 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: quidnunc
My favorite has to have been a commercial this year from PetSmart. The Happy Couple are in the house, manifestly decorated
for Christmas - lights, tree, stockings on the mantelpiece. The husband makes some comment on how the lady of the house is going overboard a bit, and she says something to the effect of "But honey, it's his [the dog's] first
holiday!"
What seems really stupid is that it's not like any Jews, Muslims or Atheists or whatever else are fooled by this, if they've got two brain cells to rub together...they know good and well what holiday the ad is talking about! Grrrr.
All that said, I don't have a huge problem with, say, personally wishing people a "Happy Holiday," since oftentimes Chanukah coincides with with Christmas (as it does this year).
Snidely Snidely
To: quidnunc
In the '50s that dreadful "Xmas" popped up but it was so blatant an assault on the name of Christ that it fell out of favor eventually. A clever conflation of the Greek letter chi (the first letter of "Christos") and the cross is a "blatant... assault on the name of Christ"?
Somebody needs to ease up a bit.
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posted on
12/04/2003 11:05:51 AM PST
by
steve-b
To: quidnunc
Its folks censoring themselves...its not a government action. No one is telling you that you or your business can't say "Merry Christmas".
That said, I do find myself pointedly saying Merry Christmas to all and sundry, no matter who they are....even Arab looking folk...if they take offence, tuff. They might get a Felice Navidad tossed in for good measure.
But ya know what? No one does! This offence bs is just that! Very few take offence at anything! Its all these control freaks running around pretending that all sorts of people are running around tearing at their hair in an agony as if splashed with Holy Water. Like they have some insight into every culture in the world....except their own. And thats just not true.
So the guy IS right. Say it loud and Proud.
Ha'fter all, its Christmas, Mr. Scrooge.
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posted on
12/04/2003 11:09:31 AM PST
by
Adder
To: quidnunc
My boss likes sending Xmas cards to clients. Although he's not anti-Christian by any means, he always goes with the wishy-washy "Season's Greetings".
Last year, I suggested "Happy Birthday, Jesus!" He passed.
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posted on
12/04/2003 11:09:33 AM PST
by
kevao
To: quidnunc
Now, instead of wishing everyone "Merry Christmas", we are subjected to "Season's Greetings", "Happy Holidays", and "Winter Festival" to name a few drippy, gray, generic tags dreamed up by the Take-Christ-out-of-Christmas crowd. I've actually heard the word "holiday" used without any reference to what is being celebrated. The following is an actual letter to the editor and was printed in yesterday's rag. Read the last line. And this from a man of the cloth.
Alaskans can help beat spears into plowshares this holiday season
Did you know that 80 percent of those killed by land mines are innocent civilians and one-third of land mine victims are children younger than 15 years of age? Today marks the sixth anniversary of the opening for signature of the 1997 International Mine Ban Treaty. By honoring this treaty, you can beat spears into plowshares and save lives of innocent victims! Currently, 150 governments have signed or acceded to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty -- more than three-quarters of the world's nations. Forty-four governments, including that of the United States, are not a part of the treaty.
According to Pentagon records, a significant percentage of total U.S. casualties from the Vietnam conflict and the 1991 Persian Gulf War were from anti-personnel land mines. Ninety percent of those mines were originally made or laid by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. Current reports indicate that land mines are still causing havoc throughout Iraq and Afghanistan.
Consider honoring the intent of the 1997 International Mine Ban Treaty by visiting the U.S. Campaign to Ban Land Mine Web site, www.banminesusa.org. The site represents a nationwide coalition of nearly 500 nongovernmental organizations. Since the early 1990s, the number of mine-producing countries has dropped from 59 to 14, and more than 34 million anti-personnel land mines have been destroyed.
Consider honoring this holiday season by "Beating spears into plowshares" (Micah 4:3)!
-- Dennis Holway
United Methodist minister
Anchorage
To: Alberta's Child
"The weird thing is that my Jewish boss uses the term "Christmas" all the time when discussing holiday preparations for the company, sending greeting cards to clients, etc. LOL."
I also noticed that my Jewish friends use the term "Christmas". They also send Christmas cards more regularly than my Christian friends, although the cards are somewhat generic.
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posted on
12/04/2003 11:11:54 AM PST
by
keats5
(And don't you dare correct my spelling!)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: GrandmaPatriot
Marry Christmas?!? You can't marry Christmas! Marriage is between one man and one woman and always will be!
...oh...."merry". Well, that's different. Never mind.
:-0
merry christmas.
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posted on
12/04/2003 11:19:08 AM PST
by
ssterns
(now the shore lights beckon...you know there's a price for being free.)
To: quidnunc
Yesterday I went to the post office and asked the short, foreign accented guy behind the counter for Mary and Jesus stamps. He scowled, opened the drawer, hesitated, then started to pull up the snowman stamps. I said, NO! The stamps with Mary and Jesus on them those right there! He looked angry and informed me they were Madonna and child stamps. I said, Well that would be Mary and Jesus! Ill take two books of Mary and Jesus stamps. He slammed them on the counter. I should have wished him Merry Christmas, too. So if you want to annoy the postal people
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posted on
12/04/2003 11:21:10 AM PST
by
meowmeow
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