RE: Is it really politically correct to say Happy Holidays, or is it just being polite?
November 17, 2014 at 5:54 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2014 at 6:10 pm by Mister Agenda.)
If it was good enough for Bing, it's good enough for me.
I'm happy to get well-wishes, I'm not too particular on how they're packaged. I don't mind if someone says Merry Christmas, I'm likely to say it back. Why should someone get their panties in a twist if I say Happy Holidays? There's several in a short period of time, why can't I hope all or any are happy?
Your heart is three sizes too small.
It's being polite to everyone, including Christians. 'Happy Holidays' doesn't leave you out. Christians have been saying it since before anybody here was born. It's only recently that a few right wing talking heads have managed to stir up a pity party about it.
You're thinking of Protestants, not atheists. We didn't really have much to do with it until it was already maximally commercialized.
What other sacred day got made into a national holiday? Secularists of the time warned against it, but Protestants just HAD to have the government endorsement of their holiday. The predictable result followed.
Was Bing Crosby making a political statement when he sang 'Happy Holidays'? Was Bing Crosby an atheist?
(November 16, 2014 at 11:32 pm)mrappleman Wrote: Thats my question!!!!. I don't know why they get so butt hurt when someone is trying to be polite.
I'm happy to get well-wishes, I'm not too particular on how they're packaged. I don't mind if someone says Merry Christmas, I'm likely to say it back. Why should someone get their panties in a twist if I say Happy Holidays? There's several in a short period of time, why can't I hope all or any are happy?
(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.
Your heart is three sizes too small.
(November 17, 2014 at 10:37 am)Drich Wrote: The thing is you being 'polite' to everyone except Christians,
It's being polite to everyone, including Christians. 'Happy Holidays' doesn't leave you out. Christians have been saying it since before anybody here was born. It's only recently that a few right wing talking heads have managed to stir up a pity party about it.
(November 17, 2014 at 10:37 am)Drich Wrote: 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.
You're thinking of Protestants, not atheists. We didn't really have much to do with it until it was already maximally commercialized.
(November 17, 2014 at 10:37 am)Drich Wrote: 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?
What other sacred day got made into a national holiday? Secularists of the time warned against it, but Protestants just HAD to have the government endorsement of their holiday. The predictable result followed.
(November 17, 2014 at 10:37 am)Drich Wrote: 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.
Was Bing Crosby making a political statement when he sang 'Happy Holidays'? Was Bing Crosby an atheist?
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
