Anonymous wrote:If you do not celebrate Christmas why do you take the holiday off with those of us who do celebrate Christmas? Why do you have any of the trappings of Christmas in your house? Why do you give and accept Christmas gifts? Why do you accept invitations, and attend. Christmas parties. Why do you accept a Christmas bonus?

There are a lot of hypocrites posting.

Taking Christmas off: My workplace is closed on Christmas. I have done non-work-related volunteering on Christmas in place of people who wanted to be off on Christmas to celebrate Christmas.
Trappings of Christmas in my house: only the ones my kids brought home from (public) school (for example, snowman Christmas tree ornaments).
Christmas gifts: I don't give any. If somebody gives me one, I accept it and say "thank you", because that's polite.
Christmas party invitations: I don't remember receiving any for many years now.
Christmas bonus: I don't get one.

If you do not celebrate Christmas why do you take the holiday off with those of us who do celebrate Christmas? Why do you have any of the trappings of Christmas in your house? Why do you give and accept Christmas gifts? Why do you accept invitations, and attend. Christmas parties. Why do you accept a Christmas bonus?

There are a lot of hypocrites posting.

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Anonymous wrote:I will SCREAM about Christmas and ain't give a fuck about how other people feel! Just like Jesus!

Me too. Any lip, and I will seriously cut you!

And could someone please direct me to the thread where we scold non-Christians for celebrating Christmas because I need to give them a piece of my mind.

I am a non-Christian. Could you please tell me what I shouldn't do? Is it wrong for me to celebrate Christmas or to not celebrate Christmas?

If you are a non-Christian, why do you celebrate the birth of Christ?

Anonymous wrote:It is supposed to make other people feel merry. How are they supposed to identify someone who does not wish to be wished (yes that was deliberate) a Merry Christmas? Is it that they carry a Starbucks coffee cup?

You realize that, when you say "Happy Holidays," you ARE wishing them a "Merry Christmas," right? You're just not ONLY wishing them a Merry Christmas.

Anonymous wrote:It is supposed to make other people feel merry. How are they supposed to identify someone who does not wish to be wished (yes that was deliberate) a Merry Christmas? Is it that they carry a Starbucks coffee cup?

Why would the default be to wish anybody a merry Christmas, except people who identify themselves as people who don't want to be wished a merry Christmas? It seems to me that the more sensible default would be not to wish anybody a merry Christmas, except people who identify themselves as people who want to be wished a merry Christmas (for example, by wearing a reindeer-horn hat, or a festive Christmas sweater).

It is supposed to make other people feel merry. How are they supposed to identify someone who does not wish to be wished (yes that was deliberate) a Merry Christmas? Is it that they carry a Starbucks coffee cup?

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NP - because there are several holidays being celebrated around this time of year, and you don't really know who celebrates what. So, rather than extend a greeting that would be inclusive of the person you're talking to (like "happy holidays"), you're deliberately choosing to "express your holiday mood" and only yours. In other words, "I only give a shit if you enjoy the holiday I celebrate, not the holiday you celebrate."

Oh no, this is stretching it way too much. Yes, I deliberately choose to say Merry Christmas, because this is the tradition I ultimately come from. If it offends you, it is your problem. Other holidays don't offend me, and if I hear "And Happy Hannukah to you," I will gladly respond with the same. Apparently, you don't feel the same way. Well, we won't be friends, and that's okay. We don't have to like each other.

Ok, for everyone asking, this is why the die-hard Merry Christmasers are dicks. They're taking something that's, at least in theory, supposed to make other people feel happy, and they're (a) using it just to make themselves happy and (b) don't give a shit if it actually makes someone uncomfortable. They're not excluding unwittingly. They're excluding deliberately.

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Anonymous wrote:
NP - because there are several holidays being celebrated around this time of year, and you don't really know who celebrates what. So, rather than extend a greeting that would be inclusive of the person you're talking to (like "happy holidays"), you're deliberately choosing to "express your holiday mood" and only yours. In other words, "I only give a shit if you enjoy the holiday I celebrate, not the holiday you celebrate."

Oh no, this is stretching it way too much. Yes, I deliberately choose to say Merry Christmas, because this is the tradition I ultimately come from. If it offends you, it is your problem. Other holidays don't offend me, and if I hear "And Happy Hannukah to you," I will gladly respond with the same. Apparently, you don't feel the same way. Well, we won't be friends, and that's okay. We don't have to like each other.

You won't hear it from me, because why would I wish you a happy [holiday that you don't celebrate]?

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NP - because there are several holidays being celebrated around this time of year, and you don't really know who celebrates what. So, rather than extend a greeting that would be inclusive of the person you're talking to (like "happy holidays"), you're deliberately choosing to "express your holiday mood" and only yours. In other words, "I only give a shit if you enjoy the holiday I celebrate, not the holiday you celebrate."

Oh no, this is stretching it way too much. Yes, I deliberately choose to say Merry Christmas, because this is the tradition I ultimately come from. If it offends you, it is your problem. Other holidays don't offend me, and if I hear "And Happy Hannukah to you," I will gladly respond with the same. Apparently, you don't feel the same way. Well, we won't be friends, and that's okay. We don't have to like each other.

when I was growing up, my jewish mom always told me Christmas time can be rough for a lot of Christians because they go into debt. and that suicide rates can be high around christmas time due to the stress.

Anonymous wrote:Only in America could wishing someone "Merry Christmas" be considered insulting.

I am a liberal atheist and i hate the "happy holidays" generic bullshit. I love Christmas.

I am an atheist whom celebrates Christmas, but I also like and respect the other religious holidays of the season. I just love holidays and will typically wish you a happy holiday!

Anonymous wrote:It's TOO EARLY for XMas!

Jesus would say be thankful, so hey everybody:

"HAPPY THANKSGIVING!"

This.

The only time I use "Merry Christmas" with strangers is Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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Anonymous wrote:I will SCREAM about Christmas and ain't give a fuck about how other people feel! Just like Jesus!

Me too. Any lip, and I will seriously cut you!

And could someone please direct me to the thread where we scold non-Christians for celebrating Christmas because I need to give them a piece of my mind.

I am a non-Christian. Could you please tell me what I shouldn't do? Is it wrong for me to celebrate Christmas or to not celebrate Christmas?

Anonymous wrote:OP, ask yourself what would Jesus do?

Moreover, how would Jesus perceive you?

As a warrior for Christ?

Or as an unyielding, obsessive harpy using Jesus as an excuse?

What have you done for Jesus today?
Given up your possessions -- including the computer, cell phone or iPad you perpetuate this thread on -- to give all your $$ to the poor and follow him?

Somehow, I doubt it.

I believe in Jesus, OP, I just don't believe in you.

Sappy and silly.....was that meant to be a powerful sermon? Not OP

Anonymous wrote:I will SCREAM about Christmas and ain't give a fuck about how other people feel! Just like Jesus!

Me too. Any lip, and I will seriously cut you!

And could someone please direct me to the thread where we scold non-Christians for celebrating Christmas because I need to give them a piece of my mind.