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If cashiers stopped greeting people with "Happy Holiday" especially few days prior to Christmas, especially on Christmas Eve, and especially when they know most people are Christians and celebrate the national holiday, and especially for me wearing a visible cross then we would not complain.
Why do you get so worked up about what someone else says?
Why do you feel that everyone should say the one thing you've deemed acceptable?
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How come in the UK, Australia and elsewhere besides the US/Canada there is no war on Christmas? Please explain.
Because they lack a large enough group of perpetually outraged whiners and crybabies to pull off such a fabrication. Unfortunately, here we have the most popular news network dedicating the entire season to drumming up fake outrage and a seemingly endless number of people who think December is the month to be angry about nothing, instead of the season to celebrate the birth of their savior. The "War on Christmas" exists only in the twisted brains of people who always need something to be unhappy about.
Does Christmas have so little meaning to you that someone saying "Happy Holidays" or calling a tree something other than a Christmas tree makes a difference?
Perhaps the cashier does not notice your cross? Perhaps the cashier wants to be inclusive of all of her customers rather than inclusive. Perhaps the cashier isn't Christian. Perhaps her boss isn't Christian.
Just say thank you or Merry Christmas back and go on with your celebration. I will never understand why saying something that includes everyone is offensive.
This is plain persecution and war on anything to do with Christianity. So every store I enter who die to sell for Christmas and keep hours opening longer in December are all owned and operated by non-Christians?
My cross is visible! Happy Holiday on Christmas Eve is offensive. Period.
Unfortunately, here we have the most popular news network dedicating the entire season to drumming up fake outrage and a seemingly endless number of people who think December is the month to be angry about nothing, instead of the season to celebrate the birth of their savior. The "War on Christmas" exists only in the twisted brains of people who always need something to be unhappy about.
Even Fox News knows that it has viewers that are not Christian.
Greeks, Assyrians and Syriac Orthodox Churches celebrate Christmas on Dec 25.
Vast majority of Christians and the western world do it tomorrow.
I guess that's why our Eastern Orthodox Greek and Syrian churches are plumb full to bursting in January, and whichever day Easter falls on in the spring.
We need to have the police blocking off roads for the easement of the religious processions, and to shoo along gawkers.
I LOVE living in the Midwest. Everybody has said Merry Christmas to us. Restaurant managers, cashiers, co-workers. I feels like I belong to a unified culture. I hate to say it, but in California, it felt lonely, like there were a hundred separate cultures. Here, like I said, it feels unified. There is something warm and welcoming about it.
Now, here's the funny part. I'm not even Christian. I just believe in celebrating Christmas as part of American culture. I celebrate Halloween too, even though I'm not a druid.
Oh look, yet another thread in which the poor persecuted majority whines that a national holiday, decorations everywhere, and Christmas music being piped into every store are not enough and instead chooses to use one of the two most important days in Christianity as an excuse to be angry and upset that they don't get to totally control the words that come out of everyone's mouths and don't get to completely ignore the other holidays people are also separating.
What sad, spiteful little people they are, taking one of the most joyous days they should have and twisting it into something to be mad about.
Happy Holiday on Christmas Eve is offensive. Period.
Well, while you are busy stewing in your anger over being offended, I will enjoy a nice evening at church followed by a lovely dinner with my friends and family. I know what really matters.
Apparently the OP does. Along with a heavy dose of sedatives so they can be calm until the season of outrage has ended.
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