folks would send Christmas cards to all their friends. The Happy Holidays ones were the last group you sent out because some would arrive between Christmas and New Years. Why the big fuss about this?

Not all of them, of course, but enough of them to make a big fuss. They've decided that a store clerk who says "Happy Holidays" to them in December instead of "Merry Christmas" is persecuting them.

as a commercial gimmick to extend gift giving and at the time wasn't about religious inclusion/exclusion. (The song was written in 1942 by Irving Berlin who also wrote White Christmas ) However, I'm sure the phrase had been around before 1942.

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer was invented by Montgomery Ward as a promotion to get kids into their stores.

I betcha all of Trump's Christmas cards from seasons past were generic, "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays".

When we were kids in the 1960s, our mom instructed us to select cards that stated, "Merry Christmas" because the cards that stated, "Seasons Greetings" were for businesses acquaintances. She would purchase Seasons Greetings cards for my Dad's co-workers, but sent Christmas cards to family and friends.

Trump is just a bunch of fake capitalist hot air.

have a very fucking MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! ...if there was anything within my power it would be done, especially this am as I wake to more disastrous news

Because I have Jewish, Muslim, Asian and Atheist friends.

My cards usually have a snowy winter scene which is where it is like where I live on holiday times.

This is much ado about nothing. If people truly followed the golden rule, embraced by all religions and atheists, the world would be a better place.

But I am a Canadian and embrace diversity. I do not fear it.

Merry Fucking Christmas
or
Happy Holidays

Pick one

Then iron the design onto a T-shirt.

Hoping for Mueller to have them all taken away in handcuffs but I'll take what I can get.

After all, it originally meant Happy Holydays.They try to come up with new wedge issues and sometimes they are successful. RNC talking points sent to Fox News should include such wisdom such as eating toadstools and spider webs will rotect you from Satan on Halloween.

and you must do it in the prescribed way.
So it is not just the 'holy days' but the holy days we proscribe with our jesus at the center.

And don't you dare bring up the solstice as if the sun returning had anything to do with the reason for the season. That could never happen.

So for me it is "Happy Solstice"

My opinion anyway

Every time I hear someone defiantly bark "Merry Christmas" (because that's what they do--they don't say it to be nice, they bludgeon you with it), I'm going to respond with, "All Holidays Matter!"

All lives matter" so suck on it now and don't single out your supposed persecuted Christmas holiday as something we all need to embrace. They can be divisive but want us all to come together for Christian holy days
Fuck that
All holidays matter

The Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays debate is a staple of the Fox News culture war - and they're the only ones fighting it. Trump has been brainwashed by this shit. And he thinks he is only president of Fox News viewers.

You can only wish for these people that someone wishing you happy holidays was the worst thing they'd ever have to endure.

An ex-friend got upset about Hanukka. She said the Jews just invented the holiday to "compete" with Xmas. After all, there are eight days of presents! This is one reason why she's an ex-friend.

The holidays predates Jesus and in certain versions it mentions Jesus at a celebration assumed to be Hanukah
How dumb can that person be ? Enough yes to be an ex friend

In the Christian Greek Scriptures, it is stated that Jesus walked in Solomon's Porch at the Jerusalem Temple during "the Feast of Dedication and it was winter", in John 10:22–23.

She's educated and generally well-spoken. But she has a blind spot about religion, particularly her Catholicism. Appealing to her intelligence didn't work; she said that some things have to be taken on "faith."

Except some of us don't.

Which really pisses some people off.

Which makes me happy as fuck.

Which encourages me to continue.