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Ok, picture this, if you will.

You are picking up a few things at your local grocery store. It is between the dates of Dec 1st and Dec 25th. The cashier is polite, helpful, and cheery. When the transaction is over, you give her a heartfelt "Merry Christmas!" to which she replies "And a very happy Mithras-mas to you, too!"

What would your reaction be? Would you be angry? Amused? What would you say?

I'm thinking of conducting a little social experament at work and want to know what you all think. :)

(Mithras is, for those who don't know, a Pagan god who's birthday was once celebrated on Dec 25th. It's because of this that we now celebrate Christmas on this date. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithras )

2006-11-26 17:56:40 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

sadistdave, go right ahead. :)

2006-11-26 18:05:26 · update #1

funnana, how would me telling you that I hope you have a good time on the birthday of a religious figure be offensive?

2006-11-26 18:13:03 · update #2

25 answers

I'd give a friendly, knowing smile and continue on about my business.

2006-11-26 18:14:35 · answer #1 · answered by Witchy 7 · 4 0

Well Christmas is a Pagan holiday, There is no evidence Jesus was born on Dec.25... I would probably make a mental note that there are some people out there that know and practice as Pagans and go on... God bless you..

2006-11-26 18:09:42 · answer #2 · answered by john316tdh 3 · 3 0

Well, I don't generally say Merry Christmas unless its said to me, as long as it's said with joy its a good thing.

If someone were to wish me a happy Mithras-mas I would probably respond with Blessed be and be on my merry way.

2006-11-28 06:12:47 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 0 0

Oh, just let the people be polite. It's the thought that counts. I say "Merry Christmas" and I'm not even a Chrstian. As for what I'd do, I'd probably smile politely and walk back to my car. I wouldn't be offended or want to discuss it or anything like that.

2006-11-26 18:01:51 · answer #4 · answered by Amy 4 · 2 0

No not at all that would not happen because I do not partake in Christmass in any way because of it's pagan origin so when people say merry Christmass to me I just wish them a nice holliday and tell them I doi not celebrate Christmass but have a nice holliday

2006-11-26 18:18:37 · answer #5 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 0 0

I would be intrigued. It is only the people who have not cared to take the time to educate themselves and find out that the man named Jesus would have to have been born in October that would be angry. Still, it is not often that anyone is willing to buck the ignorant majority and make a statement like that. Especially in a store-where we must celebrate the birth of Christ. How did a celebration of the birth of "God's Son" get turned into an excuse for us all to be forced to participate in the capitalist holiday that makes us max out our credit cards-in the name of God of course.
Oh well-I didn't understand how the terrorist attacks of Osama Bin Laden turned into the war against Saddam either. Maybe I'm just slow.

2006-11-26 18:03:54 · answer #6 · answered by dragonlady 4 · 1 2

I would not be angry because she is wishing you a "happy birthday" of her "god". I would be like her being angry because you said "happy birthday to your "god". Well I guess it would be christ. I'm an agnostic. So none of this holiday mumbo jumbo bothers me. It would be the same as if somebody said Happy Kwanzaa or Hannikah. I wouldn't really be too worried about it. In fact you are the one that threw out your religion first.

2006-11-26 18:02:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

No.

I do the parallel during the Halloween season.
I return their wish with a ""A Happy Samhein (Soween) to You Too!"

It gets many blank looks.

2006-11-26 18:13:40 · answer #8 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1 0

the devil is an imitator of God not a duplicator. this mithras was meant to be a imitation of Christmas instead of the other way around. I probably would have asked her what that meant and when she told me I probably would have prayed for her. I am unsure what I would have told her then. Probably something to the fact that she was mislead. Don't be angry about those who are still in darkness. We were once to in darkness until God shined His Light on us. May God Bless

2006-11-26 18:04:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3 3

I would smile back at them. Why not? It's a free country (unless their place of work prohibits religious references)

~ Lib

2006-11-26 18:04:28 · answer #10 · answered by LibChristian 2 · 2 0

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