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Title: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Daniel on December 19, 2006, 08:11:07 pm
It is that time of year again, folks. Start debating.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: DiE HaRrD PuNk on December 19, 2006, 08:17:50 pm
I think both should be available. Its fine and dandy when someone says " Happy Kwanza" but everyone makes a big deal if the term " Merry Christmas" is used.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: ssj4gogita4 on December 20, 2006, 09:48:33 am
I say Merry Christmas. Never have said Happy Holidays.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: VulturEMaN on December 20, 2006, 10:43:25 am
fk political correctness
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Elizabeth Rose on December 20, 2006, 01:47:27 pm
fk political correctness
IAWTC!!!  I have always and will always say "Merry Christmas".  Jews can wish each other a Happy Chanukah, and they can even wish me one for all I care.  As for Kwanzaa, I have never, ever, ever, met anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa. :P
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: IZ on December 20, 2006, 03:01:13 pm
I think both should be available. Its fine and dandy when someone says " Happy Kwanza" but everyone makes a big deal if the term " Merry Christmas" is used.
really now... and I'm sure you've heard someone wish you a happy Kwanzaa... You just seem to believe that all your beliefs are being oppressed.

I prefer Happy Holidays. It's the polite route, especially if you don't know what someone celebrates. It's like the Ms. v. Mrs. rule.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Patback399 on December 20, 2006, 03:06:47 pm
If someone prefered "Happy Holidays" I'd surely use it, but everyone seems to be fine with "Merry Christmas" around me.

And whenever someone gets upset about the use of "Merry Christmas"... it's yellow journalism.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: ssj4gogita4 on December 20, 2006, 04:01:09 pm
I think both should be available. Its fine and dandy when someone says " Happy Kwanza" but everyone makes a big deal if the term " Merry Christmas" is used.
really now... and I'm sure you've heard someone wish you a happy Kwanzaa... You just seem to believe that all your beliefs are being oppressed.

I prefer Happy Holidays. It's the polite route, especially if you don't know what someone celebrates. It's like the Ms. v. Mrs. rule.
I've never been wished a 'happy kwanzaa' O.o;;
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: DiE HaRrD PuNk on December 20, 2006, 07:22:05 pm
I think both should be available. Its fine and dandy when someone says " Happy Kwanza" but everyone makes a big deal if the term " Merry Christmas" is used.
really now... and I'm sure you've heard someone wish you a happy Kwanzaa... You just seem to believe that all your beliefs are being oppressed.

I prefer Happy Holidays. It's the polite route, especially if you don't know what someone celebrates. It's like the Ms. v. Mrs. rule.
I've never been wished a 'happy kwanzaa' O.o;;

Nope me either. I have heard debates about it on television though.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: spongebond on December 21, 2006, 12:38:33 pm
id go for merry christmas where i live noeone says anything else :lol:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: IceFox on December 21, 2006, 05:18:18 pm
Question: Should the phrase Merry Christmas be banned?
Solution: F*ck off.

Just let people say what they want to say - Happy Kwanza, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or, A Festivus for the Rest of Us!

What really pisses me off is when people get mad when I say Merry Christmas ON Christmas.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: spongehead 32 on December 22, 2006, 05:35:14 pm
Everyone is entitled to their way of greetings others.

What's silly is people being offended by a phrase which is, at the end of the day, just a plessant greeting.

Personaly I preffer "Happy Hogswatch".
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: carterhawk on December 23, 2006, 01:32:01 am
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Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Sb129 on December 23, 2006, 06:54:34 am
I say Merry X-mas, but I chose Happy Holidays because if your'e at a store you really don't kno0w if the people your'e talking to is Jewish or whatever the heck it is you have to celebrate Kwanzaa. But I've never said Happy Holidays or Happy Kwanzaa/ Chuanakah
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: spongehead 32 on December 23, 2006, 03:00:18 pm
What if the person you are adressing dosn't celebrate a holiday at this time of the year?
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: carterhawk on December 23, 2006, 06:18:59 pm
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Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: IceFox on December 23, 2006, 07:43:59 pm
America is overwhelmingly christian im sorry to say. So the odds of someone being offended by merry christmas are very low.
You haven't been out in a while, have you?
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: carterhawk on December 23, 2006, 10:32:59 pm
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Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: VulturEMaN on December 24, 2006, 07:08:02 am
but they are the politically correct loud minority....and gov't and reporters stand by them for their politically correctness...so their argument is heard quite alot...
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: carterhawk on December 24, 2006, 12:43:03 pm
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Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Squiddy on December 30, 2006, 10:46:49 pm
Il say Merry Christmas, I don't care what anybody is offended by it, they can say whatever they want to me. Im not going to be offended if anybody says anything else to me. If your offended by it, then too bad, the majority of people are Christian here.

Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: ssj4gogita4 on December 31, 2006, 12:28:36 am
America is overwhelmingly christian im sorry to say.
I hate you, too.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Dragon Of Grief on January 06, 2007, 04:32:37 pm
America is overwhelmingly christian im sorry to say. So the odds of someone being offended by merry christmas are very low.
Do you have a brain at all? America is not overwhelmingly Christian... I personally am Agnostic. Well, I believe in a GOD persay, but I think religions like Muslim, Catholicism, and Judaism are complete garbage.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Patback399 on January 06, 2007, 04:57:00 pm
Why are they garbage? They are different from Christianity in one way: the divinity of Jesus. That's it!
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Daniel on January 06, 2007, 05:01:16 pm
He thinks ALL of them are garbage; including Christianity.. Not just Judaism and Islam.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Dragon Of Grief on January 06, 2007, 06:10:51 pm
Why are they garbage? They are different from Christianity in one way: the divinity of Jesus. That's it!
Umm, read my post more carefully before you say anything next time... i am not religious. I called all religion garbage.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Patback399 on January 06, 2007, 07:22:04 pm
No, you didn't you said religions like "Muslim"(Islam), Catholicism and Judaism are garbage.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Dragon Of Grief on January 07, 2007, 02:32:48 pm
No, you didn't you said religions like "Muslim"(Islam), Catholicism and Judaism are garbage.
They are... all religion is garbage. I think every religion in existance hypocrites itself in one way or another...
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: IceFox on January 07, 2007, 03:37:02 pm
No, you didn't you said religions like "Muslim"(Islam), Catholicism and Judaism are garbage.
They are... all religion is garbage. I think every religion in person hypocrites itself in one way or another...
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Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Dragon Of Grief on January 09, 2007, 12:44:51 pm
No, you didn't you said religions like "Muslim"(Islam), Catholicism and Judaism are garbage.
They are... all religion is garbage. I think every religion in person hypocrites itself in one way or another...
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No, I meant every word I said, religion is complete garbage... it brainwashes, corrupts, and devestates... just look at the Iraqi war... both sides claimed it to be a holy war and they think that their God is the one and only and that all others are going to hell. RELIGION IS GARBAGE.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Patback399 on January 10, 2007, 01:44:03 pm
Religion is fine if you don't judge a creed different than your own.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Post by: Dr.Pain on January 10, 2007, 03:57:00 pm
Merry Chritmas.