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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".
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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I can tell that you didn't read my post...So I'll post it again for you:
his is just my opinion as a non-Christian.
Using "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" is better for me because its inclusive of everyone, and its an acknowledgement that everyone isn't a Christian, and that they still be will celebrating a holiday important to their faith at this time of year, and hat you wish them well (I think that was a run-on sentence).
I'm not so offended, but I do get a little irritated that people constantly assume that I'm celebrating Christmas. "Happy holidays" to me is more respectful of everyone's differences and realizing that there are those who are not Christian, so Christmas has no significance to them. For me, its just another day on the calendar, nothing special.
You are complaining about having to walk on eggshells, but that's not the case. Its about including everyone in your well wishes.