Mosh_Mosh_Revolution wrote:Even where I work, we're not allowed to say "Christmas" in our holiday greetings.
It's really sad how people can't just ignore it if they don't believe in it. I've been told to have a happy chanukah by my jewish friend and I didn't sit there and scream at him because I didn't celebrate it.
The people who complain and take it to court are bitter people who probably should be shot in the head or something. I hate when one person has to run into the party and start exploding fecal matter everywhere just because they didn't RSVP.
In reality, when you say merry christmas to someone, you are not saying: "I AM A CHRISTIAN!!!! LISTEN TO ME AND IF YOU DO NOT CONVERT I WILL FREAKING KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY"
They are simply wishing that you have a good holiday season. Why do many schools refer to the break in the winter as christmas break? Some people refer to Christmas as a season, and in this sense it should not be taken so harshly.
I respect everyone's beliefs, but it's when people get angry at you for hoping they have a good winter season that I get pissed off. Because it was in good intent, but there will always be that one person, like I said earlier, that has the need to throw the fecal matter. Is it for attention? is it to show that they're different? I don't know, I wish I did. If it really offends them as much as they say it does, they are very intolerant close-minded people.
I would like to say, I am not affiliated with any religion. I have beliefs, But there is too much gray area to give any definate answer to whether there is a god or not. My outlook is a more scientific one as opposed to those who blindly follow religion, those people bug me just as much as the ones who scream and cry everytime someone says christmas. I can't stand when people push religion onto other people, and try to get them to convert.
I do think there is a higher power in the universe, there is so much that science and facts just can't explain. But I do have a hard time believing alot about the stories about Jesus. I do believe that he existed, and I believe he was a great leader who inspired many people to act virtuously. Now was he magical? probably not. At least I would doubt he'd be, we can't say for sure.
Ok now that I have my religious beliefs down and you see I'm not really christian, that I fill in the missing sections of science with religion. I can wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS
BladeFist87 wrote:I deliberately told everyone I rang up at Target "Merry Christmas" even after we were told not to, so I hear ya.
More power to you, I do that at my restaurant that I work at. I don't really care what people think anymore. I'm just trying to be nice to them.
EDIT: Ok and sin got his post in before mine
I agree with what he said completely, and most christmas traditions did come from yule. Like mistletoe, hanging of the stockings (I think), the YULE log, eating a christmas ham, and even the "christmas" tree.
