Boy there are some angry people around...

happ17

So there?s an article on msn about whether retail stores should say ?Merry Christmas? or ?Happy Holidays,? the latter so they don?t offend any non-Christian customers.

As a non-Christian, personally never cared what was said. I don?t celebrate xmas or hannukah or kwanzaa...my family did ?new years? whoopdeedoo. I always felt left out of the holidays no matter what (which is probably why I love xmas and stuff so much with a household of my own).

But I?m reading these comments on the article, and people are like, angry. Seething, foaming at the mouth angry. Saying horrible, horrible things like ?if you don?t like it, get out!? Like everyone who isn?t xtian wasn?t born here.

I know many people who aren?t Christian. Most of my friends are not; they?re jewish, buddhist, etc. None of us are offended at merry xmas. I just don?t understand how people get so angry over this stuff. There are sooo many other things to expend one?s energy on.

butterbeansmama

They could call it St. Nicholas Day, I suppose.

I prefer Christmas over Xmas any day though.

~Kat~

I don't get it either. I am a Christian and I am embarrassed at how some people can  be so hateful over something that is supposed to be happy. I think that everyone should just say whatever they want and everyone else should take it as it is intended. It is just a greeting, it is not like people are intending to convert everyone that they say Merry Christmas to.

JenRose9/24

I am a Christain but more than anything I just like the warm friendly spirit of the season.  Obviously the people in the article didn't get that.  If I was checking out and someone said to me - Happy Kwanza.  I would smile and say thank you and walk out the door.  Even if you don't celebrate that holiday someone is wishing me Happy something. 

I've never understood how people can get so mean and angry over things.

magnoliablossom

I think what is going on is that people are blaming Christains for lots of things.  Just go to the Politics board sometimes and see the stuff they say about Christians over there.  I think some Christians are tired of feeling like they can't openingly celebrate Christmas or tell people Merry Christmas because people seem to be so easily offended if you do.  Also it seems that everyone else has to be catered to and that they have to follow suit in order to be considered not judgmental.  It just seems to be the way some people are reacting and some people are taking it way too personally that people say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. 

Frankly I was surprised when a store clerk told me Merry Christmas last year.  I was really taken aback that the store let them say that because everyone has to be so PC now a days to the detriment of everyone IMO. 

I don't care if someone says Happy Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or Ramadan.  To me the sentiment is what is important and the joy of the season for whoever you are is what counts. 

Happy Ramahanukwanzzmus Everyone!

Flem052204

You can add me to the list of seething, angry Christians!  Not really, I'm just exagerrating.  But I am upset that when I told the librarian out our township library to have a Merry Christmas, she whispered, "we don't say that here," as if she were telling a 5 year old that we dont say the f-word.  I know this woman because she goes to my church and I knew she was going out of town starting next week for the holidays, so I just wanted to wish her well.  But apperantly "Merry Christmas" is not to be uttered in our civic center building because it is a public/government building. 

That would be fine, if it were a universal policy.  But the windows are decorated with items from every other religious holiday--menorrahs, kwanza blankets, you name it.  And when you walk in the front door of the library, all the story books for the other holidays are right up front but you have to go in search of any Christams books.

It's not that I expect everyone else o acknowledge or celebrate MY holiday.  I just want to be able to acknowledge it myself.  And if I'm not allowed to, why does every other religion get to? 

By the way--I do some of my grocery shopping at a Kosher market and they always tell me "Happy Chanuka" and I say it back to them.  I'm not offended when others celebrate their holidays, I just wish I was given the same tolerance.

magnoliablossom

Flem052204:

You can add me to the list of seething, angry Christians!  Not really, I'm just exagerrating.  But I am upset that when I told the librarian out our township library to have a Merry Christmas, she whispered, "we don't say that here," as if she were telling a 5 year old that we dont say the f-word.  I know this woman because she goes to my church and I knew she was going out of town starting next week for the holidays, so I just wanted to wish her well.  But apperantly "Merry Christmas" is not to be uttered in our civic center building because it is a public/government building. 

That would be fine, if it were a universal policy.  But the windows are decorated with items from every other religious holiday--menorrahs, kwanza blankets, you name it.  And when you walk in the front door of the library, all the story books for the other holidays are right up front but you have to go in search of any Christams books.

It's not that I expect everyone else o acknowledge or celebrate MY holiday.  I just want to be able to acknowledge it myself.  And if I'm not allowed to, why does every other religion get to? 

By the way--I do some of my grocery shopping at a Kosher market and they always tell me "Happy Chanuka" and I say it back to them.  I'm not offended when others celebrate their holidays, I just wish I was given the same tolerance.

That is what I see too.  I tell people Merry Christmas as well, but i have to say that  most of the time I get nervous looks from the clerks when I say it to them.  Like just the mere mention of Christmas is a big ol' No No and that everyone within ear shot will be contaminated with the greeting.  It is sad really. 

 

happ17

Really? That?s so weird. I never got that. My town growing up in Queens, and later in Long Island, and my current town, always had a nativity scene, xmas tree, menorah and kwanzaa candles. Our schools never played down xmas, either, and I went to NYC public schools. I even took part in the holiday choir thing, where we sang xmas songs, even about jesus, and one round of dreidel dreidel dreidel lol. I don?t know, either I?m not seeing it around me, or maybe I?m not sensitive to it. Like I said, I was left out no matter what so I just embraced everything.

mikeandmonica

Flem052204 - I TOTALLY agree with you.  There are displays over every other thing in our area, but hardly any actual xmas ones.  It is nuts.