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100% Merry Christmas! You don't say Happy Holidays on Independence Day or Labor Day, so why wouldn't you use the appropriate greeting on Christmas. Besides, even if someone isn't Christian, there is NOTHING offensive about a Merry Christmas wish.
Independence Day is the only holiday at that time, as is Labor Day. Not to mention, you don't spend a month wishing people Independence Day.
Why wouldn't you use the appropriate greeting in a season of many holidays? If you're wishing me a Merry Christmas today then you're over a week off.
Nothing like the "birth of Jesus" to bring out the "jam it down their throats" attitude of the Jesus believers.....none of that goodwill towards anybody for them!
I have to admit is IS kinda fun to say Happy HOLIDAYS and make them keep their plastic religious symbols on their own property....it makes them so sad and victimized...it just RUINS their entire lives!!!
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Originally Posted by Alltheusernamesaretaken
I say it loudly and proudly!
If you don't like it, don't listen and don't look.
I say Happy Yule. If someone wants to wish me a merry christmas, fine, but I won't. As individual to individual, its about your own belief/non belief. It was stolen from the yule/solstice celebration anyway.
I see NOTHING wrong with stores saying Happy Holidays. In fact it is proper. There is more than one holiday around this time. Why limit the wishes?
I used to feel that Christmas was a social/family holiday (never cared for the religions part even before I cut it all loose) but now, with the ultra christians who insist it is a *christian* holiday and all other beliefs are wrong, given their belief that even our laws must comply to it, I think I'll pass unless its family where its not. Why don't we celebrate ALL the things shared rather than clutch to one idology?
So Happy Solstice to all of you and may your next year be a good one.
I like Happy Festivus...for the rest of us. Or, Happy Saturnalia, since most of the Christmas traditions are from pagan religions.
Oh, my, is the fabled "War on Christmas" back in the news?? Wouldn't be the holiday season without an imagined threat to Christianity.
Much of the 'normal' celebration is based on Norse paganism. Odin brough presents to the good children. In a frigid land, a green tree was brought inside (not decorated, as I understand) to bring in the essense of spring. As someone who is pagan I love that part of the holiday season since its now something which belongs to all. Your culturally normal holiday is often a part of most of the holiday celebrations today, at least in the US.
Winter solstice is about the rebirth of living things after winter. The symbolism got coopted by christians. Won't go to the whole part about how it didn't happen in the mid winter.
An ex boyfriend of one of my neices belonged to a family who would not participate in paganism and they stayed home in the holiday and prayed. Nor did they give gifts. How many Christians who get upset about happy holidays are willing to go that far to be 'pure'?
Until it broke, and I need to make a new one, I had a yellow yule candle glass which goes in the window, with yellow lights around it. House is still in mid repairs so not doing anything this year, but unless you notice there is no Jesus, manger, or christian symbols you'd see your normal holiday setting.
Mess or not (summer was too hot to do it, so it got half done) will be a small Yule circle/celebration of the new year.
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