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Originally posted by IIOA
I think not. The "holiday" parties, etc, to which I am referring were previously called Christmas Parties, Christmas parades, Christmas concerts, Christmas cards for one patently obvious reason - they were being celebrated, marched, performed, and mailed by people celebrating a Christian holiday. Now they have to walk on eggshells to avoid "offending" a non-Christian with the mere mention of the word "Christmas".
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This assumption is pretty much false - thus, it is actually your conclusion which does not follow.
Christmas concerts at a high school, Christmas parties for an entire office, and Christmas parades put on by a city council are not, and never were, exclusively for and by Christians - they were put on by a mixed group of people, the majority of whom were Christian.
Now, as the number of non-Christians becomes larger and more vocal, it can only be viewed as progress to be inclusive, rather than exclusive.
Bottom line: your assumptions do not actually match your conclusion that "Happy Holidays" or the like is actively anti-Christian. "Inclusive" and "anti-Christian" are not synonymous, nor do they necessarily occupy the same space.
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Originally posted by IIOA
It seems to me that the last socially-acceptable bias in society is against Christians. One needs only to watch the Southpark episode where a statue of the Virgin Mary "bleeds out her ass" to come to this conclusion. Accordingly, all of the Christmas idiocy is not because of some warm and fuzzy desire to include all, but rather to exclude the Christian influence on the holidays.
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If I give you 100 dollars for no reason whatsoever, then later insist on only giving you 60 dollars for no reason, you are not being discriminated against because I reduced your completely unnecessary benefit.
Even with inclusionary changes, Christians are NOT subject to overwhelming bias or discrimination - they're simply getting 60 cents on their previous dollar. It can NOT be possible for you to miss this.