Comments on: Merry What?

By: Ron Shank

Ron Shank — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:46:38 +0000

Good to have you back AD; even if your reply is stereotypically liberal. Yes, there are other bad things (I’ll admit worse things) going on in the world, so let’s trivialize anything that would expose “political correctness” in the truest and illogical form.

And Merry Christmas to you!

By: angry_dissenter

angry_dissenter — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:59:17 +0000

I haven’t been here in far too long.

Hmm. Wait a minute. Is this that War on Christmas that Bill O’Reilly keeps telling me about?

Wow. This is secular humanism run rampant. It is completely unacceptable that someone may actually choose not to wish a customer a Merry Christmas.

I mean, this is really outrageous. With television’s two month, 24 hour-a-day stranglehold on the holiday, coupled with the gluttonous consumerism that has somehow overtaken a holiday ostensibly to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ but which is in fact actually a Christian-ized pagan celebration that was adopted into early Christian culture as a means of survival, I can see exactly why this is such a vital, important issue.

Much more so than the issues of the day that Jesus would actually be concerned about like . . . just for instance . . . genocide in the Sudan? Sectarian violence in Iraq? Or in the entire Middle East for that matter? Or what about our troops who won’t get to celebrate Christmas with their families? Or, closer to home, what about the children in this country, starving, infected with HIV, or dying from cancer, relying on “Christmas generosity overflow” for charitable donations for treatment and research that could save their lives?

Yes. This is definintely worth the time and righteous anger of every concerned Christian.

Merry Christmas!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:06:03 +0000

I don’t even “understand” their unwillingness to let their people say Merry Christmas initially. As you say, you’re not offended by expressions about holidays you don’t celebrate — neither would I be, and I’d consider a person a bigot who claims offense at being wished a Happy Hannukah or whatever. When a business accommodates bigots by establishing a policy that their people are not to wish Merry Christmas, they’re legitimizing bigotry and becoming bigots themselves.