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The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
(Numbers 6:24-26)
Jesus came and stood among them and said: Peace be upon you.
(John 20:26)
Peace be upon you. Your Lord has decreed upon Himself mercy.
(Surah Al-An’am 6:54)
If the point of a holiday greeting of any kind is to make a gesture of friendship, is there anything wrong with personalizing it to honor the tradition (or lack thereof) of the recipient?
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'Nother one here. I work for a Hasidic Jew and other Jews work there. I share an office with a Jehovah's witness. There's a Sikh engineer. I am not going to yell Merry Christmas to them just because I am Christian.
Do you wear something that denotes you are a Jew? If I knew you were a Jew, I would use the appropriate greeting.
I'm almost always wearing a hamsa, but mostly because I love confusing people as to whether I'm Jewish or Muslim.
Do you wear something denoting you're a Christian? If I knew you were a Christian and it is indeed within a few days of Christmas, I'd use the appropriate greeting. Otherwise, the appropriate greeting to cover the dozens of celebrations in November and December is "Happy holidays."
'Nother one here. I work for a Hasidic Jew and other Jews work there. I share an office with a Jehovah's witness. There's a Sikh engineer. I am not going to yell Merry Christmas to them just because I am Christian.
Exactly. It's one thing to use the greeting typical to one's own faith out of simple habit, quite another to use it as a means of deliberately stepping on someone's toes. I have a feeling most people can tell the difference, too.
LOL, I was walking into the supermarket and a guy was coming out saying "Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas!" I stopped and applauded and said "isn't it nice that we can say that again?" Big smiles from him and a few comments about Obummer. It WAS nice to hear someone being "incorrect". Hope to hear more of it.
I'm a liberal and a Democrat and I (and my friends) never stopped saying it.
So I say it again to one and all -- except to those, like you, who make up stuff. Merry Christmas!
Cons are weird. I say Merry Christmas all the time as a customer. Nobody ever stopped me. Maybe you guys need to grow some backbone if you need a president to give you validation?
As appropriate to Christmas, they're the real snowflakes.
I have been upset about nativities being banned from town squares and yes, they are BANNED in so many towns because lefties rule the roost. I have been upset with Merry Christmas disappearing from all sorts of holiday displays. I have never thought my speech was banned. It was just nice to hear, snowflakes. I have been upset with the homogenizing of America. This is OUR country, assimilate or get out. Funny how nicely this country ran before the likes of the Clintons got in. I am one of the guilty ones who voted for Perot and lost Papa Bush the re-election and let that snake Clinton slither in. My bad.
I wonder if Christ would have said, "This is OUR country, assimilate or get out" or "let that snake Clinton slither in". I doubt it very much.
But I'm going to tell you something my aunt told me when I was just a child -- "Christmas is what's in your heart."
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