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Are you offended by 'happy holidays' instead of 'merry Christmas'? (Freep this poll)
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^

Posted on 11/29/2010 7:08:14 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

What do you think?

Are you offended by 'happy holidays' instead of 'merry Christmas'?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chat; christmas; happyholidays; merrychristmas; pc; waronchristmas; waronchristmas2010
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To: allmendream

You may want to rethink considering Xmas as secular and Christmas as Christian.

That “X” isn’t an ex, it’a a chi, the first letter of Xristos, the original Greek word for Christ from which the English Christ, the Latin Christus, and so forth are derived.

As to “Happy Holidays”, notice it’s plural: Christmas and New Years if you’re a Christian (or, when said early or when Hanukkah falls late Hanukkah and New Years if you’re Jewish).

It’s not a replacement for “Merry Christmas”, it’s a replacement for “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”, which is rather long.


41 posted on 11/29/2010 8:08:33 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Btw, I still fondly recall the last day in the office before the Christmas break, and everyone wishing everyone else a Merry Christmas, but when they past Claire's office on the way out, they were all "sensitive" enough to wish her a "Happy Holiday", and she graciously said "Thank you" and "And you, too." with a smile.

And when I passed by, I said, "Have a good weekend." And she laughed and said, "you, too."
Because Channukah had been two weeks earlier. When I had wished her a "Happy Channukah".

42 posted on 11/29/2010 8:08:34 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: DManA

I remember doing just that once at the Hollywood Bowl.
WOW.


43 posted on 11/29/2010 8:10:30 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) The more I see and know Obammy the more I think he's an a-hole.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

People started saying ‘Have a Happy Holiday’ right before Thanksgiving - it’s Thanksgiving not ‘Happy Holiday’

Are all these days going to end up being just ‘Bankers Holidays’?

I used to say “Happy Day Off” to a Jehovah Witness co-worker because she was offended by any religious celebration term- but this ‘Holiday’ generalization is getting a bit much...


44 posted on 11/29/2010 8:11:35 AM PST by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: The_Reader_David

The computer people know that X stands for cross. For example, XPCOM (in Mozilla) stands for Cross Platform Component Object Model


45 posted on 11/29/2010 8:15:03 AM PST by ari-freedom (Islam is at war against America, while America is at the mall.)
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To: The_Reader_David
I refer to X-mas as the secular version because of an episode of “Futurama” where when Frye said “Christmas” they said “He must be using an archaic form of the word”.

My point, no matter what you want to call it, is that most secular Americans, and certainly our retail outlets, celebrate YULE, not Christ-Mass.

And New Years is not exactly a Holy-day = Holiday. At least not for those who don't blow the ram's horn.

46 posted on 11/29/2010 8:21:24 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Not in the least offended. I greet the way I want to, others the way they want to.


47 posted on 11/29/2010 8:23:32 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

48 posted on 11/29/2010 8:32:02 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ConservativeStatement

When I was shopping before Thanksgiving, a clerk voiced, “Happy Holidays” to me.

My response was to say, “No, I dodn’t do holidays — I do Thanksgiving and Christmas, SO Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to you, too.”

She was speechless! LOL!

We need to speak up all the time to these people who are trying to be politically correct. If it happens again in the same store, I will tell them that until the can greet me with “Merry Christmas” I will no longer shop in their store.


49 posted on 11/29/2010 8:36:18 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Oops

dodn’t = don’t


50 posted on 11/29/2010 8:37:48 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I work in a customer-service related field, and I can tell you that I have spoken with MANY people who are disgusted with ‘Happy Holidays’. Not a single one has voiced their approval of it.

I also do my company’s website, and one year I made the mistake of putting a Happy Holidays banner on the main page. Boy, did I catch holy hell for that one.


51 posted on 11/29/2010 8:39:49 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Scratch a “progressive” and a fascist bleeds)
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To: allmendream

Oh? January 1 is the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, and the Feast of St. Basil the Great. We Orthodox tend to have Liturgies to celebrate it. Of course, there’s also Theophany (a.k.a. Epiphany) on January 6 to round out the Holidays.

Actually Yule and Yuletide are good names for the secular festival since secular, despite its pretenses to “reason” is really re-paganized.


52 posted on 11/29/2010 8:49:46 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Texas Eagle

Agree


53 posted on 11/29/2010 8:52:55 AM PST by Starstruck
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To: The_Reader_David
And do most secular Americans, while getting drunk amid the revelry of the New Year, spare even a THOUGHT for the circumcision of the Christ, or even know who St. Basil the Great is?

Yes, modern day X-mas celebrations are re-paganized secular Yule celebrations, by in large.

As such I could care less for the false piety of commerce, and even less for those who seek to DEMAND that their particular religious observances be acknowledged before they spend their money on Yule gifts like video games where you can kill electronic “people” on the day of the birth of our Lord.

54 posted on 11/29/2010 9:02:29 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Texas Eagle

+1. Couldn’t agree more.


55 posted on 11/29/2010 9:05:09 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I had to do the same this weekend after putting some money into a Salvation Army kettle. The girl said, “Happy Holidays.” I replied, “And Merry Christmas to you too.”


56 posted on 11/29/2010 9:11:40 AM PST by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Here’s the absurdity of Happy Holidays. I only hear it used for a Christmas greeting. I still hear Happy Hannukah and Happy Kwanza. Also, many times, Hannukah is over before Christmas and Kwanzaa doesn’t begin until after Christmas, so the only holiday remaining is Christmas. And, yes, I am offended when I hear Happy Holidays.


57 posted on 11/29/2010 9:13:16 AM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I just heard that Hannukah begins this Wednesday, so it will be over way before Christmas. What other holiday is left?


58 posted on 11/29/2010 9:16:45 AM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Are you offended by ‘happy holidays’ instead of ‘merry Christmas’?

Yes. The name of the holiday is “Christmas,” not “holiday.” We need to put Christ back in Christmas, despite all the people and media who want to take it away. (2153 responses)

78%

No. We are a multi-cultural society which celebrates many different holidays at that time of the year. There is no offense intended when you tell someone “Happy Holidays.” (304 responses)

11%

People who are very offended by “Happy Holidays” really need to chill. (312 responses)

11%

2769 total responses

(Results not scientific)


59 posted on 11/29/2010 11:19:43 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

pretty much at this point everything offends me...


60 posted on 11/29/2010 11:21:47 AM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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