I always thought "Happy Holidays" referred to Xmas and New Year's.

When I was kid, it never dawned on me that it was an inclusive statement, meant to placate those of all faiths. I just assumed that people were wishing me both a Merry Christmas AND a Happy New Year combined...with a modicum of brevity.

So why can't conservative Chriatians who are all up in arms about the "War on Christmas" do the same thing? Why can't they choose to interpret "Happy Holidays" in the same way?

or some kind of crazy agenda. or both

THe whole hoopla over "holidays" is just STUPID!

The TWELVE days of Christmas...

christ...

Because everyone has to believe as they do, do as they do, closed minded people. Why are people threatened if someone believes differently than they?

real christians if evolution is a a fact..

That's probably a big part of what this is all about

I guess courtesy has died among fundie Christians.

The truly mind-boggling thing, IMHO, about this 'War on Christmas' crapola is this:

When I was a kid, many churches, of all denominations, posted ads about 'Keeping Christ in Christmas' by donating to the poor, donating to food banks, donating toys to organizations that distributed them to poor kids, etc. THIS was always the way Christians were admonished to honour the birth of Jesus - through lending a helping hand to those less fortunate.

These days, pseudo-Christians are only interested in the word 'Christmas' being used by stores, in marketing campaigns, in TV and radio ads, and so on. I have heard not one word from any of these so-called 'Christian' groups about the meaning behind that word, or the acts of kindness and giving that should be prompted by it.

Threatening to boycott certain stores that don't use the word 'Christmas' only means, "I will spend my money elsewhere."
And spending money, to these kinds of people, is NOW what Christmas is all about.

Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus - I hope you appreciate what your so-called followers are doing to celebrate your birth.

celebrated, it included Christmas or Chanukah (sp?)in the greeting.

"I always thought" The difference between you and them is that you think.

All it takes is a few people to tell the rest of them what they think and then there is no turning back.

The other issue right now is that they are trying to get the country to turn their attention away from how bad their president is fucking up the U.S.

from righteousness. And in order to feel righteous, you have to make others wrong. Which means that you have to in a state of constant vigilance, on the look-out for ways to make war on others. It's a symptom of the true state of their moral degradation that they have to pick things like the fact that there are other holidays around the time of the winter solstice that they choose to turn into enemies, exclude and make war upon. It seems to be the nature of conservatives today to create enemies and make war in order to feel good about themselves in their righteousness.

that the ACLU is evil.

we need to call them fundamentalist fanatics - just like the muslims that are fanatics - they are insugents too - they are causing a lot of damage for usa both inside and outside

Happy Holiday