But long before Christmas (Christ’s mass) was invented, we celebrated Yule at more or less exactly that time. Time to take the holiday back, folks, 'cause Jesus sure wasn’t born in December!
In the Nordic countries we even call it Yule (jul, jòl, joulu), not Christmas 
And we still keep up the milennium-old heathen tradition of overeating and overdrinking.
Does it have to be one or the other? Surely if you’re having a merry Christmas, your holidays (or ‘Holy Days’) are by definition ‘happy’?
I find Christianity gets surprisingly het up on words, given it claims to transcend this earthly realm.
My perfect wintry holiday would be spent whittling logs into the shape of baby Jesus and throwing them onto a roaring fire.
Cite?
Remember that Deeg is the one defending Faux Snooze over in that other thread, which should pretty much tell you where his cite will be coming from, if he provides one.
Another year of this crap… Let’s just win the war already. This is what happens when you start a war without a clear exit strategy.
I don’t want to start this war – they have Santa, Elves, Reindeer, and a toothless Abominable Snowman on their side.
Do you disagree? Or are you just asking for a cite?
When I have to go to therapy, it will be because of this post.
Perfectly said.
Fuck O’Reilly for making “Merry Christmas” a litmus test.
I think I’ve decided that if anyone corrects me when I say “Happy Holidays” this year, I will reply, “Oh, ok then. I wish you a Merry Christmas, but a Sucky New Year.”
Passable. You see guys? One has but allow some yield. We stopped burning you in the stake, haven’t we?
How else do you fight a war on Christmas?
With missile-toe!
He’s got a million of 'em! Try the veal.
Yup. It used to be that Christians complained that Christmas was getting too commercialized. Now there’s a loud-mouthed if not militant minority essentially complaining that the commercials are insufficiently Christmasized.
I don’t see a lot of difference between being offended you heard Happy Holidays, not Merry Christmas, and being miffed by a Merry Christmas greeting as it’s not your holiday!
Both seem pissy. It’s a friendly greeting and is well intended, why is that not enough.
I think people should act to take power away from both groups by taking up the phrase:
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! How easy is that? What are they going to say then?
The war is on? I’ll get my trebuchet and put a vat of oil on the stove.
Martha Stewart says: To make the holidays more exciting, drop a couple of live turkeys into your vat of boiling oil right before throwing it at your guests. Your neighbors will enjoy the festive dancing that ensues, and your guests will never forget the thought and effort you put into their gift.
Happy Holidays!
Hey, any excuse to get hammered. 
And of course we should celebrate the Sun and Moon on Sunday and Monday, the Norse gods Tyr, Odin, and Frigg on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Roman god Saturn on Saturday. 
I can’t really tell if you’re serious or not, but I sure am. Christmas is the best time of year and there’s simply no place for Christianity in it. The ancient Yule traditions are fantastic. The modern stuff like Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer is amazing. The only part that sucks is the stuff about Jesus’s birthday that the Christians came up with.
I don’t have a problem with Christians who want to privately worship Jesus around Christmas time but I wish they’d use a different name for it, so secular people could have Merry Christmas without all the fighting.
It’s just a name that happens to have Christ in it. Having the name of an ancient god as part of the word isn’t reason enough to make something religious. It’s not like 2square4u would insist Americans have to worship Thor on Thanksgiving just because we happen to have Thanksgiving on a Thursday.
I vouchsafe anacreontic Yuletide greetings to you all! May you feel the apricity of the season and if any contumelious person vitiate these wishes and perorate about your terminology may they be pizzled through the streets.
It’s a bit long for a greeting, maybe I should save it for the Yule cards?
Damn! I forgot to work “gainsay” in there. Also, I am sure I probably used some of these words wrong but you have to give me credit for working pizzle in there.