RE: Is it really politically correct
November 17, 2014 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2014 at 2:04 pm by Jenny A.)
(November 17, 2014 at 9:21 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I consider "Merry Christmas" an expression of the joy people have in their heart because of a very specific holiday, Christmas, and their desire to spread that joy, the Christmas spirit. Happy Holidays means the person tacitly accepts a walk on eggs culture that kills honesty and masks genuine sentiment with vapid euphemisms. If you don't believe in Christmas then say, "Have a Nice Day" and live honestly.
Nothing wrong with having a specific meaning in your heart for Christmas. But why worry when others say happy holidays, because that is was many of us mean, i.e. I hope you enjoy the holiday season which includes Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and New Years, not to mention a fair amount of non holiday specific school time off. And if I say it, yes I really do hope you enjoy the whole season Christmas included.
I enjoy Christmas myself.
(November 17, 2014 at 10:37 am)Drich Wrote: The thing is you being 'polite' to everyone except Christians, our beliefs, our traditions, and our holiday. what's more you have taken a day we have adopted to celibrate the birth of Christ, and devalued it. You take the tradition commericialize it and strip all of it's meaning. What other religion can soceity take a sacred day from, takes it's key elements/practices and discard the rest while going through the motions/rituals, and it not be mocked?
You not being polite. You are making a political statement that devaules a very specific religion and those who believe or want to set apart december 25 as being the day Christ was born.
Nonsense. If I know you are Christmas, I may wish you a merry Christmas specifically.
Happy holidays isn't meant to deprive you of Christmas, or to commercialize it. You Christians did that last bit long before "Happy Holidays." And it's a bit much to demand that everyone consider the December holidays from your point of view. Just be glad it's an official holiday unlike, say, Hanukkah. You're privileged. Don't whine.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
