Jim Bakker: Remember when it was illegal to say Merry Christmas?

[Nefret]

Originally Posted by bawac34618

I wish people Merry Christmas on Dec 24th and 25th. It's Happy Holidays the rest of the season.

This is exactly what I do.

I haven't identified as Episcopalian in over 30 years but back in those days, we didn't sing Christmas carols in church until Christmas Eve. (Advent hymns were sung in the weeks leading up to Christmas).

At the Christmas Eve service we sang traditional carols for the first time, always in every church I've been in Oh Come All ye Faithful for the processional and Hark the Herald for the recessional. At the end of the service, it felt like Christmas had arrived and everyone wished each other Merry Christmas. No one was running around weeks ahead of time saying Merry Christmas.

What really gets me is those who say it with an edge in their voice as though daring someone to object.

[silibran]

Around Christmas, when you talking with someone whose beliefs you are not familiar with, IMO it is polite to wish said people a “happy holiday.” But it has never been illegal to wish people “Merry Christmas.” You are free to wish people happiness however you wish. And that has never changed, in spite of Fox TVs insistence on their having been a war on Christmas.

Talk about majoring in minors!

[Crazee Cat Lady]

Jim Bakker: Remember when it was illegal to say Merry Christmas?

Oh sure! People were thrown in prison and everything! Wonder when they let him out of prison?

[Crazee Cat Lady]

Anyway, nothing wrong with saying "Happy Holidays" either.
It's much more inclusive of Jewish people, atheists and people of other religions.

[Leo58]

Originally Posted by mtl1

The leftists don't or can't stop the celebration of Christmas but they try to force us to rename it to the generic "Holiday" or "Season". Well whether anyone is personally Christian or not or celebrates it or not, it's called Christmas.

Please tell me exactly how anyone ever forced you to say Holidays instead of Christmas