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Liberals hate Christmas.
This Boston Globe article reports of conservative groups attempting to “re-Christianize” the holiday season and to use Bush’s reelection as justification.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to bring Jesus back into Christmas. It is, after all, a Christian holiday that has – for a long time – been more focused on materialism than religion. But there’s no reason whatsoever that this needs to spill into the government arena. Boycotting department stores that use the more marketable “Seasons Greetings” rather than “Merry Christmas” is silly.
Rev. Patrick Wooden Sr., says, ''We're not going to allow the country to continue this downward spiral to the left." Since when do liberals hate Christmas? I find it hard to believe that businesses are renaming their “Christmas” parties as “Holiday” parties because they’re bashing religion. It seems more likely that they are merely trying not to alienate their non-Christian employees.
This Boston Globe article reports of conservative groups attempting to “re-Christianize” the holiday season and to use Bush’s reelection as justification.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to bring Jesus back into Christmas. It is, after all, a Christian holiday that has – for a long time – been more focused on materialism than religion. But there’s no reason whatsoever that this needs to spill into the government arena. Boycotting department stores that use the more marketable “Seasons Greetings” rather than “Merry Christmas” is silly.
Rev. Patrick Wooden Sr., says, ''We're not going to allow the country to continue this downward spiral to the left." Since when do liberals hate Christmas? I find it hard to believe that businesses are renaming their “Christmas” parties as “Holiday” parties because they’re bashing religion. It seems more likely that they are merely trying not to alienate their non-Christian employees.
posted by Anonymous at 9:29 PM
2 Comments:
How would the term 'Christmas' alienate non-Christians?
For years the term Christmas meant only one thing: presents. The story behind it was always Santa.
It's political correctness gone way to far, but hey, why care? Christmas has been taken over by rampant consumerism anyway, probably the people really being alienated by it all are the Christians.....
As a non-christian myself, I'm not offended by "merry christmas," but I don't feel included in it either. "Happy holidays," or "seasons greetings," offers the rest of us the opportunity to participate in the winter holidays, too. That's why it matters. It's not that we feel alienated by others' religious holidays, but in a public place like a store that wants my business, don't try to tell me the holiday sales are a tribute to christs's birth. And in an office where I work, I should not be told that the office party is for christians only. We celebrate winter festivity, too.
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