when people say It's the Christmas season & not the Holiday season. I'm a Christian but I think it would really bother me if I was Jewish & people didn't include Chanaka. Sorry if I misspelled your holiday but I did the spelling check & it said no misspellings
2006-11-17 10:21:05 · 10 answers · asked by gitsliveon24 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't get what silverbir meant when he said Jews like to party. Was that an insult?
2006-11-17 10:44:23 · update #1
Channukah is more common spelling, but no worries, it is spelled so many different ways that there really is no wrong way!
I used to be Jewish (now I'm an Atheist) and I used to HATE December because that meant that Christmas was coming up. I hated feeling excluded from school activities because I felt that I was being discriminated against. Teachers would say Merry Christmas and not Happy Holidays (or Happy Channukah). Also, at my school we weren't allowed to wear hats unless it was a Santa hat (around Christmas), so for many years I got in trouble for trying to prove a point that you can't single out my baseball hat when the girl next to me is wearing a Santa Hat. That pissed me off!
So it wasn't so much that I felt insulted, just excluded and descriminated against.
But, oddly enough, now I love Christmas (remember I'm an Atheist, so it isn't the real reason, I guess you can say) but participating in the singing with my wife's Christian family (which I used to hate) and decorating the tree with is something that I now look forward to. Isn't it a little ironic?
2006-11-17 10:29:13 · answer #1 · answered by Existence 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It does bother some. Others are just used to it. Shame, isn't it, that some Christians are so selfish that they want the whole season to revolve around their one holiday, when there are others during the same period? When I know someone is a Christian, I wish them a Merry Christmas. When I know someone is a Jew, I wish them a Happy Chanukah. When I know someone is a Humanist, it's Happy Human Light. But if I don't know what religion/philosophy a person follows, Happy Holidays works best. It's inclusive.
2006-11-17 18:25:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's their fault that they don't believe in Jesus. Don't worry about insulting the Jews. They're just full of guilt and shame and they don't know what to do with it so they try to make others feel guilty by calling it "the Christmas season" instead of "the holiday season."
2006-11-17 18:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
I think true Christians are bothered by people saying they're Christians yet practice pagan traditions such as pagan X'mas and Easter.
2006-11-17 18:23:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't get insulted. its not like people know i am jewish. and i dont want to be constantly stopped in walmart and asked what my religion is, just so that the staff can wish me happy chanukah.
2006-11-17 18:40:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I say live and let live, why quibble over semantics.
2006-11-17 18:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they don't. Jews know how to party.
2006-11-17 18:24:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
like evrybody else
2006-11-17 18:22:06 · answer #8 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good grief no. Stop being so sensitive.
2006-11-17 18:22:19 · answer #9 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
i think so
2006-11-17 18:26:56 · answer #10 · answered by jb 2k6 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋