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 "Get off the phone you big dope!!!!!!!!!!" Mark Levin

After all, it is Christmas time.

But I also wish folks a Happy Chanukah if I know they are Jewish or point it out.

Since Muslims don't speak to kaffir, I don't have to worry about Eid.

Atheists, they can go howl at the moon or whatever it is they do.

Christmas is a Holy-day. 

I say Merry Christmas, but I'm not offended in any way by Happy Holidays. Whatever floats your boat.

If I know the person, I say "Merry Christmas", but if I am unsure, I just say "Happy Holidays"....I could care less which one is used, as it is the good wishes towards the person that are what matter..

As a business owner, I tell all of my customers "Merry Christmas", regardless of their religious affiliation. It is my way of telling them how I percieve religion and where I stand on the subject. To my knowledge I have not lost one customer in 20+ years of business because of it.

I do have many customers that wish me "Happy Holidays" because of their company's PC policy but I still do not take offence to that either. Can't we just all get along....during the holiday's at least.

God Bless and Merry Christmas to you all. May God Bless you and yours each and every day of this up coming New Year. Sincerely, JAB

"Too bad Ignorance isn't painful..."

Mele Kalikimaka!

Both are fine to me considering Hannukah and New Years are celebrated within the same time frame. I don't get offended if someone says "happy holidays" to me. I do think it is stupid to purposely avoid saying "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Hannukah" even if one is not Christian or Jewish. Who cares if someone gets offended? It's the offendee's problem not ours.

I used to live amongst a large population of East Indians, they celebrate Diwali in October-November which is similar to Hannukah. Even though I am Christian I still wished people "happy Diwali" because it is polite and doesn't hurt anyone...and guess what? The non-Christian Hindus still wished people "Merry Christmas" at Christmas time.

The problem we have is there are vocal minorities in our country that are looking for reasons to be offended.

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:

"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep;

The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,

With peace on earth, good will to men." -H.W. Longfellow

They're interchangeable depending on the person and the timing. I do not say Merry Christmas in November and if the person is Jewish I try to honor their celebrations as well. 

On the other hand, if Christians want to hear MC more prominently, just sit one Season out, see who the last retailer is left standing. 

Still if someone says Happy Holidays it is ok.I dont like when companies do Happy Holidays to be PC.Still havent been to Jack and the Box since they started that.I do miss their artery clogging tacos..sigh.Also that Hillary ad with that smug elitish smirk ticks me off.Ohmmm Anyhow I look at how the greeting is given.Christmas is a special time of the year where people seem to open up their hearts to others and that is what makes it special to me.That is why I prefer Merry Christmas.Wow getting maudlin in my old age.Must be the coffee.

Both are fine however, this year, Christmas is better since there is no confusion about the day, no matter who you're talking to.  Has anyone noticed how saying, "Merry Christmas" is much more acceptable this year.  Also, is it my imagination or has the ACLU been quiet this year?  Could it be the Dems have told them to hold it down, this year, then, after they win big-time next year, they can pile on again? 

Democrats: Specializing in "high tech lynching" since 1987.

Someone on here a few days ago said the following. I copied it and sent it to all in my address book:

"Lord knows that I am no flame-throwing anarchist who stumbles about saying and doing things only to irritate good people. That is not my modus operandi, regardless of what creditors and my ex-wife may be charging.

Nonetheless, it seems fitting at this time of year to "cast my fate to the wind," and to speak unabashed about that which I believe, without undue regard to political correctness.

As they used to say, "Let it all hang out!"

Thus, and therefore, acting against the counsel of my lawyer and psychiatric team, I hereby plunge headfirst into the world of defiance and wicked decadence.

I do so by exclaiming the following greeting from the top of my keyboard: MERRY CHRISTMAS! "

Wow worst poll ever.

1)  Who cares?

2)  Why would you say Merry Christmas to a Jew?

The only issue I have with 'Happy Holidays' is when the organization/store/whatever RESTRICTS their members/employees from saying 'Merry Christmas'.

If an organization doesn't care, and the individual person wants to just say 'Happy Holidays' then I have no problem at all with that.

I always say "Merry Christmas" because it might offend someone.

Happy holidays was fine 10 years ago, and I refuse to let the PC crowd make it a "bad" word. Christmas is fine, I use it mostly with family.

Overall, I really don't understand the whole thing. Christmas is not a Christian based holiday. It is a pagan/secular based holiday that the Roman church hijacked and tagged "Christ" to it by coining the phrase Christmas. It was a tool used to entice pagans to joing the church.

So all of the things that go along with Christmas are of the human mind. I would like to see someone point out where in the Bible that as Christians we are instructed to celebrate the birth of Christ. Or that he was born in December. There is no mention of it. If God and Jesus did not tell us to make a big deal out of a yearly ritual to celebrate the birth of Christ, to me it makes the holiday mostly secular in nature, with most Christians at least paying attention to the nativity story in the Bible and rejoicing that our savior was sent to us. Everything else about Christmas, including the word, is strictly made up by humans for our own enjoyment.

So for me, I take no offense in saying or being told Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. Or "get out of my store, I told you not to break another one of those......"