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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I don't see why anybody is going "RAR Political correctness is evil" especially when their whining that the store employes don't tell them Merry Christmas. Does it really effect you that much that stores and teachers don't say Merry Christmas? Cause if your really bothered by the it than just celebrate like crazy at home.
edited 15th Jun '13 5:07:56 PM by Wildcard
as I understand it theyve been riled up to believe that the only reason people dont say merry christmas is because of evil anti-christian conspiracies to pervert christmas from a solemn, family friendly holiday that is all about Jesus into a commercialized, soulless entity as part of some wider war against christmas and christians.
The fact that people might not celebrate christmas and that slamming christmas in the face of other religions when those religions never get allowed similarly ostentatious displays of forcing their religon on the wider world never seems to register.
edited 15th Jun '13 5:03:47 PM by midgetsnowman
I'd say its a bug in the sense they simultaneously get pissed if they cant have ostentatious plastic nativity scenes all over town yet get mad at people for "forgetting the true meaning of christmas", and either way consider it their right and no other religions right to ever have public displays of faith such as that.
That's how I always felt about it as a kid. Hanukkah is like "Back to school, as a holiday!" or at least it was in my family. Oooh... Pencils, socks, t-shirts, chocolate gelt, et cetera...
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I don't like those people either, frankly, both varieties annoy me. The ones who feel persecuted if someone else wants to say Happy Holidays are obnoxious, and the people who insist that others shouldn't say Merry Christmas is obnoxious. I don't think it's particularly important or worth giving a shit about. If a school says Merry Christmas, I don't particularly care. Same reason that despite being irreligious, I don't really give a shit about "Under God" being part of our pledge.
edited 15th Jun '13 5:29:37 PM by Barkey
I'm rather indifferent to the bill or the pledge. So I guess I side with Barkley.
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edited 15th Jun '13 6:06:05 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016be glad you dont live in Missouri where even saying the words "I'm not a christian" tends to earn you stares.
I guess I'm just sort of fortunate in that regard, when I'm in casual conversations with people like that, I specifically bear-bait into saying that so I can pull the "Hey, I'm in the military and you aren't so fuck you." card whenever they try to do the whole "Murricah, Christian." card.
I guess I'm kind of an IRL troll in that regard. I specifically push really overbearing religious people into saying that, just so I can say "I'm not a Christian and I've done more for this country than you, so suck my dick."
I'm not patriotic at all and I love my occupation for completely separate reasons from god or country, but they don't know that.
edited 15th Jun '13 6:09:03 PM by Barkey
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@Barkey: That's exactly what they did. Christmas was originally Yule and Saturnalia. Christians coopted Saturnalia to hide their own celebrations back when they were persecuted then proclaimed it "their" holiday when they got powerful enough to do the persecuting. Of course, if one beluieves Biblical accounts of the sheperds and their flocks being hailed by angels then Jesus couldn't possibly have been born in December
Trump delenda estIt's Israel. The entire southern end of the country is pure desert in the Negev and the Wilderness of Zin. They moved their flocks out into the Wilderness areas near the Rift Valley between Galilee and the Dead Sea and moved them back towards the towns at night. It just rained a bit more in winter.
edited 15th Jun '13 9:06:15 PM by Zendervai
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No. because the war on christmas type sees X-Mas as an attempt to take Christ out of Christmas. (even if it isnt)
Its either Say merry Christmas or else they scream at you for perverting their time of the year.
edited 15th Jun '13 4:55:42 PM by midgetsnowman