Posted on 11/08/2004 7:28:03 PM PST by carrier-aviator
Is anyone else as sick as I am of the one-for-one substitution of the word "Hoilday" for "Christmas," as in Holiday Party, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, the Baby's First "Holiday." Christmas is a federal holiday just like Veterans' Day or Thanksgiving. Why shouldn't we mention it?
Take the pledge: refuse to use the word "Holiday" when "Christmas" is correct. To your neighbors and fellow employees say MERRY CHRISTMAS, never Happy Holidays, and if they object simply tell them you are wishing them happiness on the upcoming federal holiday. If they object further, ask them if they'll be going to work on December 25th.
an extremely MERRY (love that word) Christmas to you and yours.
how did you get so lucky (post 228)
:)
Huh?
The celebration of the birth of Christ is not religious?
Very very nice, B4!
No, because most people are people of goodwill and use both terms, not one to the exclusion of the other.
Plus the word "Holiday" has been used for ages and is a perfectly good word and not offensive in the least.
"Nothing" is rather strong and doesn't strike me as accurate at all. After all, the story of the Holy Family is part of the "true meaning".
I was in Home Depot doing some last minute shopping (Don't tell Pete) last Sunday and the cashier told me 'happy holidays' as I picked up my bag. I looked her in the eyes and said "Nope, Merry Christmas." She got a twinkle in her eye and said "Merry Christmas, it's rediculous these days, isn't it?" I agreed.
And your point is? Ninety percent of Americans celebrate Christmas - - and for the word to be censored out of the common vocabulary, by stores (which are catering to Christmas shoppers whether they admit it or not) and party-goes (whose parties are timed to precede Christmas), is OUTRAGEOUS, and I'm sick and tired of it. This is censorship --- and it's as bad as in Saudi Arabia. If you went there, they wouldn't mention Christmas either.
Yes I can. I am free to withhold my business from stores that censor the word Christmas - - even though everybody knows that it's Christmas shoppers that they're selling to. I predict you'll see more and more organized efforts, even boycotts, by Americans who are tired of the politically correct censorship of the word, Christmas. Just as the anti-Christmas bigots and the PC police are free to try to censor the word, the rest of us are free to complain, and to punish them at the marketplace.
Yes, it's offensive if it's used (as it is these days) to censor the word Christmas, and drop the word Christmas down the memory hole.
NO, because you notice, they still say "Happy New Year." Happy Holidays is a phrase that's being used in order to consign "Christmas" down the memory hole. It's being used by people and businesses who either share the values or, or are intimidate by, PC and anti-Christmas elements, groups who are at war with our cultural traditions.
I pity you.
For being clear-headed? If that's to be pitied, then please, pity away!
When the term "happy holiday" is used, it is being used to wish nothing more than "happiness." Nothing more. There is no implicit condemnation of Christmas, and nothing is being consigned down a "memory hole" .. whatever that is.
Take happiness and joy where you can get it. Peace, too.
Since you're not clear-headed, obviously the anwer is "no", I don't pity you for being something you are not.
I don't wish to launch an attack on you, but I do indeed pity you.
It is confrontational in-your-face types like you that give Christmas a bad rap.
Most of the bell ringers are minimum wage hired help and you should be lucky one of them hasn't "rung your bell" because of your bellicose attitude. If it was me, you'd wind up wearing the kettle as a hat !!!
Yes there is, because in recent years, it's being used as a replacement for Christmas -- and the word Christmas is being jettisoned.
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