Merry Christmas Vs. Seasons Greetings

[Elrohir]

I hate Christmas.

And Christmas hates you, so it all even's out.


Why would I want the greetings of winter? It's Christmastime, Merry Christmas is what you say! "Seasons Greetings", pah....

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Festivus is the only true holiday!

You're all forgetting Agnostica!

Merry Christmas, I'll be opening gifts in 5 hours.

 

[downtown]

its christmas. i say merry christmas until i know im speaking to one of my jewish friends. now lets stop fighting and go open up some gifts

 

[cgannon64]

I've honestly never heard anyone say "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" aloud.

 

[Esckey]

Merry Mithras or Happy Yule

 

[MobBoss]

To be honest, no one should object to Merry Christmas regardless of religion. Why would you object to someone wishing you well just because it was from another religion? It certainly wouldnt upset me to have someone say "Happy Hannukah" to me in any event.

People need to learn to relax and enjoy life instead of getting upset over crap like this.

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

People need to learn to relax and enjoy life instead of getting upset over crap like this.

Darn right Happy Hannukah and Merry Christmas to you.

 

[Padma]

This year, instead of a "Christmas Party", my compnay had their "Annual Employee Recognition Dinner".

They completely chickened out, and avoided any holiday overtones whatsoever. :sigh:

People need to learn to relax and enjoy life instead of getting upset over crap like this.

 

[Civrules]

I have and always will say Merry Christmas. I'm amazed at some people who don't have the guts to say it in front of others in RL. It pisses me right off.

It's the stupidest issue I've ever heard in my life. What's the matter with people these days? The big huge ginormous debate (especially for WalMart it seems) whether our employees should say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas. :shakehead

 

[Cu Chulainn]

I do not alter my greetings based on seasons and thank people for whatever greeting they give me. The only exception is those morons who say "Merry Christmas" like they're daring you to do something about it. It's the intent that matters.

 

[Archbob]

I usually say "Merry Christmas".

Did anyone see the Connan episode where to be politically correct the Christmas tree ended up being a mono-chromatic sparkling object or something>

 

[Perfection]

Saturnalia ends on December 23rd I believe... "Merry Mithras" might be a better choice for a December 25th Holiday

Link - Mithraism
(The section Parallels to Christianity is quite interesting)

Yeah, but Mithras isn't as sleazy

 

[Charles 22]

This year, instead of a "Christmas Party", my compnay had their "Annual Employee Recognition Dinner".

They completely chickened out, and avoided any holiday overtones whatsoever. :sigh:

Yeah, the sort of same thing here. They decided they would have it in early january (what they will call it I have no idea). The excuse? They wanted to save money for this year, so our profit-sharing would be higher. It is somewhat believeable that they would be that dense, because routinely, for the last 3 years or so they put hiring freezes for the last month and a half of the year. How those dimwits hadn't figured out that our bill for this year was made all the higher because of a flood of hiring in january (just like with the Christmas party), because of 2004's end-of-year hiring freeze amazes me. They ought to be ashamed of themselves with such brainless twaddle.

This same company, 3 or 4 years back, put a pledge of allegiance on the labeling of their product, supposedly supporting patriotism after the 9-11 attack. Only problem is they deliberately left out the part of the Pledge that said "one nation under God". They caught hell for it.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

I don't think being a true Christian involves denying the poor access to food, water, and shelter while it's below zero yet vilifying certain large corporations for their marketing policies...

 

[ComradeDavo]

I've settled for Merry Christmas