LOL! Freepers Spar On Stoooopid "holiday/Christmas Controversy"

Jesus, even a lot of the FREEPERS think this "issue" is just plain stupid. I don't know who they are manufacturing this "attack on Christmas" story for, but if it doesn't work on at least 75% of the Freeptards, it's a loser for them. Another Freeper wedge issue? Yeah, bring it on!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531388/posts#comment?q=1

Holiday" theme???

Why is the White House joining the ATTACK ON CHRISTMAS???

2 posted on 11/30/2005 11:16:23 AM PST by CYA
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To: CYA

Because they want to inlude hanukkah, also?

3 posted on 11/30/2005 11:18:54 AM PST by elc
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To: CYA
Why is the White House joining the ATTACK ON CHRISTMAS???

Oh, puhleeese. You're comment is an example of over-the-top, hyper demagoguery we see far too often on FR these days.

"Holiday" is a perfectly legitimate term for the season and always has been. When it is used specifically as a substitute for Christmas, as in Holiday Tree vs. Christmas Tree, then it is stupid and destructive. However, when it is used in its traditional way to describe the season between Thanksgiving and New Year, then it is perfectly appropriate.
4 posted on 11/30/2005 11:25:32 AM PST by Wolfstar ("In war, there are usually only two exit strategies: victory or defeat." Mark Steyn)
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To: Wolfstar; CYA
when it is used in its traditional way to describe the season between Thanksgiving and New Year, then it is perfectly appropriate.""

But that's not how it is used. It's used as a PC substitute for "Christmas." Nobody says "Happy Holidays" after December 25 -- even though other "holidays" like Hanukka and "Kwanza" often are after Dec. 25 (as they will be this year.) "Holidays" is being foisted on us by liberals who want to censor the word Christmas out of our vocabulary.
5 posted on 11/30/2005 11:29:25 AM PST by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff
But that's not how it is used. It's used as a PC substitute for "Christmas."

I guess they missed the other 7 times they used the word 'Christmas' in this release.
6 posted on 11/30/2005 11:47:07 AM PST by Antonello
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To: Wolfstar
hyper demagoguery we see far too often on FR these days.

That's for sure. I am getting sick of it.

I have said "Happy Holidays" along with "Merry Christmas" my whole life. I like to say "Happy Holidays" once in awhile, especially because the season encompasses Thanksgiving and New Years as well.

I can't believe 91% of FR believes "Happy Holidays" should NEVER be used. I agree that the word "Christmas" is falling out of fashion in commerical circles and should be restored but "Happy Holiday" never used? Give me a break!

Funny thread.

He & various BushBots are saving Xmas or something -- way more important story than Duke Cunningham or the Iraq war I guess!

LOL!

That godless little TART!

grocery checkout etc. about this topic? That didn't occur right when FOX news or someone was broadcasting a "story" about it just at that moment?

I asked my Jewish friends if they're worried about an "Attack on Hanukkah". They just laughed and laughed.

Is what O'Lielly said....how fucking gullible are these people who are distracted by this nonsense?

even for your birthday

:evilgrin:

in fact I intend to start using it whenever I stub my toe or get cut off in traffic.

MOther fucking merry christmas!

yee haw!

:evilgrin:

and at my neighbor, "hey your dog just took a big old merry christmas in my front yard! Bastard! Do it again and I'll kick your merry christmas, and I'm not merry christmas kidding!!!!"

sigh. I need coffee. I've gone insane. sorry.

A Merry F***ing Christmas to you too, then!!!! :hi:

constant hyping of Christmas. They said it led to commercialization of something that should be sacred and low-key.

Nowadays so-called devout Christians insist that "Christmas" be all-pervasive, right down to threatening to boycott stores which don't hype "the Christmas season" enough.

It is not a coincidence that this change has taken place simultaneously with the change of the American electorate from freedom-loving, peaceful people to Big Business-worshipping republican-identified serfs who will vote against their own interests just to lift up the Big Business which they worship and adore.

HOW STUPID!

Bunch of idiots. They'd boycott themselves if they thought it would help their corporate masters...

The ones who said Santa was really Satan distracting us from baby jeebus, and Christmas trees were pagan idols? I'm starting to miss them now!

Hey Morans, I don't know a single liberal who gives a flying rat's ass who uses the word "Christmas" or "holiday."

What a bunch of gullible sheep. :eyes:

*sigh*

It's not a HOLIDAY TREE like the evil secularists want, it's a shiny, shiny Christmans tree, LOOK OVER THERE!

True it's a distraction but it also seems to be turning al lot of them off...

To: jude24
"The President is the President of the non-Christians too."

Why? They ain't really 'muricans.
15 posted on 11/30/2005 12:16:13 PM PST by lugsoul
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Do they really use the term "'muricans"? If that's so, then that's hilarious

Maybe they've co-opted it to make it a postitive term instead of a negative one.

fine by me. They just make themselves sound like the ignorant turds that they are

like ignorant turds than they already do. :D

So my kids are grown and every year I learn to hate this holiday more and more, even my 4 yr old niece is now a cynic, tells us there is not Santa Claus....I didn't take Christ out of Christmas...K-Mart did..so O.K. O' Riely, you win , let's just skip it from here on in. wouldn't bother me if we never celebrated this holiday again...Bah and Humbug!

I think we should use it for practically everything.

This could be fun. And don't tell me I'm being sacrewhatchamacallit or I'll kick your merry christmas!

:evilgrin:

Christians out number all other religions in this country and yet there is a small portion of Christians that constantly complain about being persecuted and it's getting old.

Bibles aren't in schools! We're being persecuted! Damn Athiest state getting in the way of converting Jewish and Muslim kids!

Gay people want rights! They're persecuting us! Let's discriminate against them more than we have been over the last few centuries...really show 'em how the persecution thing is suppose to work.

Women have the right to control their own bodies! We're being persecuted! Quick...let's burn them! Or shoot them! Or bomb them! Whatever works...persecuted Christians aren't all that picky.

A husband wants to follow the wishes of his brain dead wife by letting her die with dignity? Well, break out the Jesus on a trailer hitch because we're being persecuted!

People have the audacity to NOT say the word Christmas in every other sentence or in every single greeting used between November 25th and December 26th each year! We're being persecuted! If O'Reilly, the biggest Christian loofah lovin' sexual harasser says it's true, then we must believe! Because Jesus would want us to believe in people like O'Reilly, right? :eyes:

the poor, persecuted Christians. Like hello, you have about zero chance of every winning national office in this country without doing your Xtian photo-ops, sheesh, that's depressing. It's like Iran, except different religion.

It is what keeps 'em going. That is why there is a preponderence of chicken hawks who are Republicans. It is why everyone who disagrees with US policy is a "terrorist". It is why they make up issues like this.

To: Yaelle
The only Jews against Christmas are the atheist kind that never go to Temple and think Judaism is about 'social justice'. Think: Al Franken, Nadine Strossen, Alan Derschowitz, Chuck Schumer, etc. Real Jews who actually believe in God aren't threatened at all by Christians and they know that it hasn't been Christians persecuting Jews for the past 1000 years - its been atheist socialists.
Just don't forgot to wish us Happy Hanukkah next week and occassionally mention us at conventions so we know we aren't completely forgotten or taken for granted in the party.

15 posted on 11/30/2005 10:17:52 PM PST by bpjam (Now accepting liberal apologies.....)
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thank goodness we cleared that up. I guess the whole 'jews killed jesus' bullshit was aimed at secularists? and how about that inquisition thingy, huh? oh, stop. I really can't go on.

I am slowly becoming a religious bigot, out of self preservation, not because I love to hate.

If these weirdos start spouting on about vanilla flavored versus cinnamon flavored faith as a reason to discriminate against anyone, I will take the fight to their front damn door. I've had it with them; am taking no prisoners.

Those silly Jews who think their religion is about "social justice." How dare they actually have a set of ethics and morals and follow the belief that justice and equality should be spread and celebrated, not mere zealotism!

it's about hating muslims, didn't you get the memo?

my only point here is to ask who was it who marched with Dr. King, and suffered the brunt of the violence of the anti-civil rights assholes? in almost any picture of Dr. King marching you find a rabbi. the people who took the buses to the South to register african-american voters in the Freedom Summer were way overrepresentative of Jews. Anyone seen Mississippi Burning? Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwermer? (James Chaney, of course was killed as well)

Frankly, I can't imagine why Jews, of all people, would have a vested interest in social justice. I can't think of a single reason.

Re >>silly William, it's not about social justice" it's about hating muslims, didn't you get the memo?

my only point here is to ask who was it who marched with Dr. King, and suffered the brunt of the violence of the anti-civil rights assholes? in almost any picture of Dr. King marching you find a rabbi.<<

There is nothing I love more than fundie pseudo-Christians telling me how "real Jews" are supposed to think. That's right, you ignorant creeps, Judaism in practice *IS* maybe 90% about social justice. That's why we have Jewish atheists who are "real Jews," at least according to other Jews.

Re >>Frankly, I can't imagine why Jews, of all people, would have a vested interest in social justice. I can't think of a single reason.<<

Yeah, neither can I! :sarcasm:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5486045

Fox News sells Holiday Ornaments for your Holiday Tree.

I'm permanently banned from there for some smart ass comments about Ray-Gun. Took them less than 30 seconds to tombstone me.

Their little heads will explode when they see their very own Pravda selling "holiday" ornaments.

demagoguery :applause:

there is intelligent life after all (ok at least one!)

so only half points.

:popcorn:

OK don't torture me, I admit to having purchased "holiday" dish towels and "holiday" greeting cards. It's all a big plot to foist godlessness on the freepers, but they're on to it, oh NO! THANK GOD FOR PLAN X! Hope they don't catch wind of that one....

Hope nobody heard me.

When I was growing up and maybe even still now, I thought what was meant by 'Happy Holidays' was Merry Christmas AND Happy New Year. I never considered Christmas was being replaced by some other term.

New Year. That person is an idiot, and I don't say this often. "Happy Holidays" means well wishes for any holiday that is celebrated by the greetee. It's a catch-all, not a replacement. :banghead:

Stolen from the freeper thread:

"Right, buddy. The 'Attack on Christmas.' OK."

... for the rest of us.

But please, no tasteless jokes about challenging JimRob to feats of strength...

a fake controversy out of whole cloth and they buy it hook, line, and sinker.