It's "Merry Christmas," not "Happy Holidays."

[YoDoc]

Christmas is supposed to be in March. Christmas in December is just a cover. Easter is a cover too, but better done. All of the bible’s stories were done before by some other religion.

Christianity is one giant cover band.

[Hentor_the_Barbarian]

@Vihaga

I’ve been surfing for mangers and Santas since the original post about it. Although Home Depot had an LED light-up peacock that would look awesome next to a manger. A polar bear, peacock, and penguin nativity would be pretty badass.

I love the idea of my less than insightful neighbor inadvertently inspiring a global wave of ironic Christmas scenes. I still have a soft spot for “Jesus on a Pike” myself, but there’s no inherent irony. Just some unintended visual effects.

I did try to take a picture of the yard one year, but it was on my cell phone, and I was trying not to be obvious, so it didn’t come out very well.

[Derleth]

You know, it’s just amazing how impossible it is to avoid offending conservatives.

No, wait. Not ‘amazing’. ‘Pathetic’ is the word I was after.

Happy Holidays!

[pantheon]

Why not just go full bore? Santa vs. Jesus

You searched for 11697824 | News Channel 3-12 ahahaha

On a serious note though, the adoring Santa at the manger is available in everything from cards to yard art.

[Kolga]

@Derleth

You know, it’s just amazing how impossible it is to avoid offending conservatives.

No, wait. Not ‘amazing’. ‘Pathetic’ is the word I was after.

Happy Holidays!

What’s pathetic is how weak those types of Christians seem to be in their own faith. I mean, if you need strangers to remind you every day about one of the holidays of your own spirituality, it’s not really that important to you, is it?

[Broomstick]

@LonesomePolecat

Really, would it kill you guys to admit that the Christmas holiday season is pretty much a Christian holiday season?

Given that my family is predominantly Jewish, athiest, and Pagan, it’s actually a Chanukah/Yule/Winter Solstice/New Year’s season for me, and always has been. Well, yes, there are some Catholics in the mix as well, and a Lutheran brother-in-law somewhere, and I certainly wish them Merry Christmas but no, in my personal experience Christmas is a pretty minor part of winter, experienced mostly as unrelenting musical pap while in stores.

Would it kill you to admit not everyone in the US is a Christian?

[Lobohan]

I don’t take advice from people that don’t capitalize sentences.*
*Unless I already agree with it, of course. If a guy who didn’t capitalize sentences told me to put a fire in my house out, I’d do that.

[Zeriel]

@LonesomePolecat

And if you don’t know that his religion even celebrates a holiday at this time of year, what are you telling him? To enjoy someone else’s holiday?

There are secular holidays at this time of year–in fact, the season is bookended by them: New Years Day and Thanksgiving.

One of the strangest things about the internet is the way total strangers on a message board seem to think that I crave their respect.

You’re the one who made it an issue of “genuine respect” (in those words!), you don’t get to play backsies now.

[Zeriel]

@LonesomePolecat

The holiday season would not exist in the western hemisphere if the Europeans had not brought it with them, and it would not exist anywhere if Christians in Europe hadn’t created it, apparently in an attempt to compete more effectively with Yule and the Saturnalia ,and borrowing heavily from both celebrations as well as folk customs.

“The holiday season wouldn’t exist at all if we hadn’t stolen it from the holidays that were in that season before we came along!”

Brilliant, Sherlock.

[Dag_Otto]

@woodstockbirdybird

I just want to congratulate the OP on distinguishing himself, in such a brief time, as the absolute biggest dipshit on the boards. Quite impressive, considering the competition.

Of course, it wasn’t a secret. I think everyone already knew.

[Morgyn]

@Zeriel

I used to just grumble quietly about seeing idiots get in the faces of cashiers who say “happy holidays”, and sympathize with them when it was my turn in line.

After reading this thread, the next time I see it some rude Christian is going to have to acknowledge the essentially Buddhist nature of my boot in their ass.

And here I thought Buddhists were nonviolent in nature. :eek:

[elmwood]

Ahhh … a War on Christmas thread. It’s like it’s 2005 all over again.

[Kevbo]

I usually respond to “Merry Christmas” with “Shalom Hanukkah!”. Especially if I know the greeter to be one of those that thinks “Happy Holidays” is an attack on their faith…which I would know from the glurgy email they forwarded to me that claimed as much.

[Zeriel]

@Morgyn

And here I thought Buddhists were nonviolent in nature. :eek:

I’m a Zen Buddhist. We get away with all kinds of shit by pretending it’s a teachable moment.

[Drunky_Smurf]

@tdn

Season’s Greetings, because fuck you, that’s why.

I think we can, or should, agree that this is the most appropriate holiday greeting for everyone as it is all encompassing and true to the spirit of the season. Also I’m stealing this as for my sig during these happy days and if anyone doesn’t like well then I refer you to my sig.

@RitterSport

I immediately parsed this as:

Q: I mean, what kind of prick do you have to be to get upset over someone wishing you well?

A: Jesus.

So, I laughed.

Ha! So did I.

[Knorf]

@LonesomePolecat

It’s not the phrase “Happy Holidays.” It’s the fact that many stores were willing to be rude to Christians by not acknowledging the essentially Christian nature of the season.

You can take your celebration of the farcical birth of your mythical god-baby and shove it up your ass. Sans lube.

Holy mother of fuck, “Christians” are defensive and thin-skinned these days.

[Knorf]

@furt

Somone tell me I’m not the only one who thinks that

1. Anyone who gets offended at “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays” is a douchebag,

and,

2. Anyone who gets offended at “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” is a douchebag.
   I mean, what kind of prick do you have to be to get upset over someone wishing you well? Jesus.

You’re not the only one.

[Telemark]

@Kevbo

I usually respond to “Merry Christmas” with “Shalom Hanukkah!”.

Same here, well I use “Happy Hanukkah” but basically the same. Since I work with a lot of Indian Hindus it tends to confuse them at first. But most pick up quickly and we move on from there.

As I’ve said here on the annual thread about this topic, I don’t take offense when someone who doesn’t know I’m Jewish wishes me a Merry Christmas. It would be silly to take offense at an honest attempt at good cheer. But I don’t celebrate Christmas and once they know that I would expect them to modify their greeting to either “Happy Hanukkah” or “Happy Holidays”. To do otherwise, IMO is a bit rude. Not a major offense, but one that still bothers me.

[drewtwo99]

Happy holidays to the TC!

[Budget_Player_Cadet]

@LonesomePolecat

It’s not the phrase “Happy Holidays.” It’s the fact that many stores were willing to be rude to Christians by not acknowledging the essentially Christian nature of the season.

Yes, because no other religion has a major holiday around this time. :rolleyes: