On my Facebook feed somebody had the standard:
It’s not Happy Holidays, it’s Merry Christmas" Share if you agree".
I replied wondering why people get so butthurt about acknowledging that not everyone is Christian.
On my Facebook feed somebody had the standard:
It’s not Happy Holidays, it’s Merry Christmas" Share if you agree".
I replied wondering why people get so butthurt about acknowledging that not everyone is Christian.
Things like this always leave me looking for a way to rather pointedly not-share whatever FB glurge it happens to be.
I would be inclined to respond, I think you mean Happy Veteran’s Day or Happy Thanksgiving since those holidays come first. I hate people like that. As if no other holiday in the world exists except Christmas.
People should be so excited this year that Chanukah comes around Thanksgiving time so they are free to Merry Christmas themselves to death all December.
I think the real reason they get upset is because they realize that Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus for a greater and greater portion of Americans. I’ve been an atheist my entire life and I fucking LOVE Christmas. It actually annoys me when Christians try to take the focus away from Santa Claus. Yes, at one point ten to hundreds of years ago Christmas was nominally about Jesus’s birthday, but for many many years it’s been a secular holiday celebrating Santa Claus in all his glory.
So in a limited sense, Christians are right in fearing that culture is turning away from the boring shitty Jesus Christmas because the amazing Santa Claus Christmas is beating him so badly.
Santa is the reason for the season.
I guess I get annoyed by both factions. At this point Christmas is so secular that you really have to go out of your way to be offended by someone saying “Merry Christmas”. On the other hand, although “Happy Holidays” is so bland it is a bit more inclusive. I wish people would just say what they want and not be bothered by what other people say.
Nothing against Christmas, but “merry” is such an archaic word. Like “vouchsafe” or “gainsay.”
To be less tongue-in-cheek about it, I’m an atheist who absolutely loves Christmas for entirely secular reasons. Peace, charity, and goodwill are values that no one church has a monopoly on. Giving and getting surprises is fun. It’s a good excuse to cook a big fancy meal and just spend a day relaxing and doing nothing. Almost everything is closed, so you can go out for a drive and have the streets almost to yourself. The weather is usually nice (as I define nice, anyway), and some of the music is fun to listen to.
People who want to use Christmas as an excuse to crow about their specific brand of Christianity and target and exclude anyone who doesn’t agree are not good exemplars of the Christmas spirit, IMO.
Yeah, but where’s the fun in that?
Merry Christmas to all my fellow Dopers!
I have no idea why people who are all “Jesus is the reason for the season!!!1” actually support the commercialization of a sacred religious holiday by insisting that store clerks mindlessly mouth the greeting “Merry Christmas” for a couple months every year.
Mary Chris Miss!
Because they enjoy the butthurt. It wasn’t that long ago that these same people were complaining about how their sacred holy day was being profaned by its association with Santa and Frosty and Rudolph. So stores switched to Happy Holiday to avoid offending them. And now they’re complaining about how stores aren’t mentioning Christmas. Some people just want a reason to be offended.
Never too early to post this: http://vimeo.com/31226953
Cool words all.
Gahd, I hate people.
Yes, this.
I saw something on Facebook a few years ago at Christmas that said “The Earth’s axial tilt is the reason for the season.”
Axial tilt is the reason for the season…
Keep the Saturn in Saturnalia!
How many times do we have to tell heathens that Merry Christmas is for everyone?
Are we going to ban “good morning” to acknowledge those on permanent night shift? :rolleyes: