Happy holidays!!!

[kimba1]

I'm off to eat, eat,eat
Wish you all good cheer

[Xavier_Onassis]

I ate, ate ate! Merry Christmas! (urp!)

[Christians4LessGvt]

Thanks Kimba....but
Today is Christmas!
Almost 80% of Americans identify with Christianity.
Today should be Merry Christmas.....because it is in fact Christmas Day!

It's like on Valentines Day if we stopped saying Happy Valentines Day
because there are other celebratory days near Valentines.

[BSB]

Kimba whishes us a happy holiday season to spread the good cheer and CU4 gives him a lecture.

Happy Holidays Kimba.


BSB

[Xavier_Onassis]

Jump on the bandwagon!

Don't get left behind with the 20% atheist, infidel, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu losers!

[Christians4LessGvt]

Yes lets pretend reality doesnt exist
Lets say "Happy Holiday" on Valentine's Day
Lets say "Happy Holiday" on St. Patricks Day
Lets say "Happy Holiday" on your birthday.
Lets say "Happy Holiday" on Thanksgiving
Lets not ever say what in fact the day is.

[Xavier_Onassis]

You know why people say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas".

Many Americans are not Christians.
The words "Happy Holidays" includes New Years and Hannukah as well as Christmas. Not to mention Kwanzaa and Festivus.

The other holidays you mention are mentioned by name.

[BSB]

The chances that Jesus was born on Dec. 25th are slim and none, and Slim's in Texas.

BSB

[BT]

I don't think the date being exact is that big of a deal. And i don't think Christians celebrating the birth of Christ on a designated day is that big a burden on people of other faiths.

[kimba1]

I think only one of those is a holiday and I thought as a christian I figured I had the right to say happy holidays also. I never thought the intention of that expression was aniti-christian and figure this would put it to rest by putting my stamp of approval.
oh well ,next year lets hope I`ll get my way. I`ll only gonna get stronger as time passes.

resistance is futile you will see it my way

[Christians4LessGvt]

Many Americans are not Christians.

Ah but Dec 25 is CHRISTmas....not some other holiday
And Dec 25 which is CHRISTmas is the national holiday....not some other holiday.
Sorry....reality exists.

[BSB]

People can, and do, do whatever they want, BT, that's my point. Someone decided Dec. 25th was a good day to celebrate Christ's birth, fine. Dec. 25th is a legal holiday in this country, fine. But anyone can call it any damn thing they want, and celebrate any damn thing on Dec. 25th they want. There's no law saying you can't wish someone Happy Holidays and if you do some dipstick is going to throw a fit. Christmas is a made up holiday, get over it.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hannukah, honest to God, who cares?


BSB

[BT]

You are correct in that the Roman Rite set the date for Christmas as December 25th. The eastern rite has it around January 6 or 7th. What you do on December 25th is your business. I smoked a turkey breast. My neighbor attended church. Most gatherings involved extended families and friends, which may or may not include Christians, Buddhists, Jews, agnostics and the occasional atheist.

I have no problem wishing some one Happy Hannukah and most of my Jewish friends have no problem wishing me a Merry Christmas, even though i haven't been inside a church in ages and i am just to the theistic side of agnostic.

Anti-theists are a bore and i have no problem telling them that.

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I was surprised that almost 50% of self identified Christians haven't attended church in the last 6 months in one of the polls i posted up thread. And i think that tells us a lot of the blowback and claims about a war on Christmas are coming from cultural Christians vs spiritual Christians.

[Plane]

http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/

[BT]

Now that my war on Christmas is over, I can begin my war on New Years.

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