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So since the minority believe in something, screw the rest of society (aka the majority)? How quickly the tables have turned on your logic.
How is it screwing the majority to have holiday break on a school calendar instead of Christmas break? Do you not know what you celebrate unless it is on a school calendar? Holiday covers everyone, even the majority, since Christmas IS a holiday.
No. I'm not. I'm just baffled as to why they remove the name "Christmas" from things, as if it is sooo offensive. Fact: December 25 is Christmas. It is celebrated by a large majority, and the religious majority in this country. Yet publicly, the word has been taken away more and more over the years. Soon, it will be too un-PC to even say Christmas. It will always be "holiday" or "winter." Why is Christmas so offensive to people, that we have to change it even though it is celebrated by the majority? Why is the minority (those who don't celebrate or aren't Christian, because being religious and celebrating aren't mutually exclusive when it comes to Christmas) catered to?
Unlike many people out there, very few things actually offend me.
And winter break happens in the winter and encompasses more than one holiday and it lasts longer than just December 25.
How many holy days are celebrated December 25? Hanukkah changes each year, sometimes it starts in November and does not even coincide with Christmas.
What other holiday celebrated by many anywhere in America also falls, always, between December 24 and New Years' Day (the same time as school breaks)?...
In NJ, most districts have off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. What's written on the calendar? Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. What do we call them? "The Jewish Holidays," to make it easier. But they're referred to by their names. So what gives?
Is winter break only one day? My son is off for about 2 weeks, and I'm pretty sure not every day of the break is Christmas.
What other holiday celebrated by many anywhere in America also falls, always, between December 24 and New Years' Day (the same time as school breaks)?...
I feel like this is a trick question, but.. New Years Eve? Hanukkah falls between those dates (12/24-01/01) next year. So should it be "Christmas" break this year and "Holiday" break next year to include those celebrating Hanukkah during that same time?
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Is winter break only one day? My son is off for about 2 weeks, and I'm pretty sure not every day of the break is Christmas.
Well.. technically... the Christmas season does last for 12 days. So it is almost 2 weeks.
I went to Starbucks yesterday and order my usual Venti Quad Shot Caramel Brulee Latte w/ 5 pumps, soy, upside down and demanded they draw baby Jesus on my red cup. They didn't want to at first but the manager was called in and drew a nice manger scene for me.
It only counts as a Christmas cup if you also told them your name was "Baby Jesus".
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It's only a matter of time before we are no longer allowed to even label the Holiday as Christmas.
We now call it the Holiday That Must Not Be Named.
All I'm saying is: call it Christmas break, because that's what it is. If that offends people, they need to get lives.
You're just joking now... right? Surely the person who is offended by "Holiday Break" isn't telling those who are "offended" by "Christmas Break" to get a life?
I never even noticed symbols on the cups before. My main concern is the drink not the cup..people really have nothing better to do with their time than to complain about a cup I mean really?
I never even noticed symbols on the cups before. My main concern is the drink not the cup..people really have nothing better to do with their time than to complain about a cup I mean really?
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