How many times in the during the next few weeks will the Xmas and Happy Holidays debate rage?
- Sunday Dec 6,2009 07:15 PM
- By diddy
- In Others
How many times do people need to be told that these things aren’t a secular "attack" on Christianity. Both come from England centuries ago. The X in the abbreviation Xmas is the Greek letter Chi, not the Roman X. It’s the first letter in Christ, when it’s spelled out in Greek. Happy Holidays was a greeting formulated during the reformation when many Puritans were against the celebration of a mass for Christ’s birth, but there were also several other holy days and the New Year going on during the season.
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Thousands, wait until the kids are home from school!
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Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. They’re both OK with me.
I’m still waiting on this "war" to actually get started. The only people I see truly crying about it are the Extremist Christians who get upset when someone says "Happy Holidays". I haven’t met anyone yet who REALLY gets upset over being told "Merry Christmas".
I prefer Merry Yule myself, but that’s just the Heathen in me.
I stopped giving a damn YEARS ago…
Now I ONLY say either "Joyous Kwanzaa" or "Hail Satan".
Too many.
At this point I’d prefer just about anything to the 2012 questions.
Puritans weren’t for much fun at all. I am happy we’ve moved beyond them.
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I wish all Christians a happy holiday season, particularly Yuletide
No problem inside my head.
I’m a Buddhist but I’m all in favour of presents and peace on earth, goodwill to all men.
Happy Festivus Everyone!
Great question!
It generally breaks out when Fox News and other Hate Media whip up the populace over the "Happy Holidays" greeting.
Despite your informative ‘question’, I’m sure there will be plenty of people who interpret Xmas or Happy Holidays differently (negatively)’.
About Happy Holidays, I really don’t care if they’re offended. First, it’s a nice enough greeting/phrase and second, if I’m not a Xian but people say ‘Merry Xmas’ specifically to me, why is that not considered an insult?
As far as the ‘X’ goes, when I use it, it’s for abbreviation purposes only. If they want to be insulted by it when that wasn’t the intention, sigh, so be it…you can’t please everyone.
Well, here I sit, an atheist, and I can’t abide the stupid debate. It’s idiom. Who cares? Christmas? Just a name. To me it’s still the secular holiday for kids. Like ‘in god we trust’ on the money, who CARES? If calling it christmas is wrong, fine. Come up with a new name that will stick. It doesn’t mean a THING to me or to anyone with two brain cells in operation.
Well, if we limit it to R&S, and average 25 times per day, I think it will continue on until about January 12, 2010…1,025 times…no, that’s nowhere near enough.. 3,297 times sounds about right.
it wouldn’t be that big of a deal if people didn’t do it just to be jerks.
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