Isn't one reason for businesses to say "happy holidays" simply because we have a substantial Jewish population?
Does the current insistence by fundamentalist evengelicals that we should only say "merry Christmas" mean they don't want to acknowledge Jews?
2006-12-06 04:31:15 · 13 answers · asked by Steve 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm comforted by all the people who believed that saying "Merry Christmas" isn't anti-Jewish.
Clearly, then, saying "Happy Holidays" isn't anti-Christian either.
So let's just accept that there is no war on Christmas!
2006-12-06 04:59:29 · update #1
The whole thing is dumb, because the ACTUAL holiday is winter solstice, a pagan holiday. And Jesus wasn't born in the winter. So the christains decided to do this christams thing during winter solstice, to discourage paganism. The reason for the history lesson is to show that NONE of it had to do with religion, it all had to do with poltics and intolerance of other religions (or lack thereof)
2006-12-06 04:35:24 · answer #1 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus did not teach scripture alone. And much of what hes said and did is part of our -- Catholic -- unwritten history. The new testament is not a transcript of every moment of Jesus's life or ministry. It is the story of the fondation and early formation of the catholic churhc. The Gosples are the speivifc trainng that Jesus first bishops recived at his hand -- He hadn picks them trains them appoints a leader, ordains him is crucified rises form the ded and ordains the remaining. Int he meantime instuting the scaraments. The gosples are more and outline highlighten the most iimportant spects of Jesus's mission which was to found His kingdom on earth, which includes teh instution of the sacraments. UNderstood in this contxt sripture makes perfect sense. Outside of this context it makes no sense and all kinds of errenous notions and missunderstandings are produced. This si why -- the context -- it is so easy for a catholic to debate a protestant particualrly the sola -scrupture or "fundies" becasue we know the trutht and the true context so we have the truth with us, and can easliy straineout false concepts brough about by each indiviudal inperpting the owrds for themselves. So no nothing could be further fro the truth Jesu gave scripture it's correct and indeed exalted palce but he did not express the notion of sola sripture or he would have wrote himslef, he would have spent his time writng and not fouodning he church. Sola scripture is a form of idolatry which negates the actul jesus, aND UINDEED A PERSONAL REALTIONSTHP WITH HIM THAT IS ONLY AVAILABLE through the sacrametns.. It elavtes the bible to the sataus of God. Indeed many call it the word of god when in fact weknow that jesus is the word of god and the bible contains the words of god.
2016-05-23 01:06:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is actually anti-all-nonchristians and should be legislatively banned as a criminal act punishable by lashes, dunking and cannibalism.
Of course it's not anti-Jewish. Wishing someone good tiding is a postive social interaction not formulated as a conspiratorial plot to deflate the spirit of others. "Happy St. Patricks Day" doesn't discriminate against the non-Leprachaun and non-Irish. "Happy Columbus Day" is not meant to remind the Spaniards who financed Mr. Columbus' expidition that he was actually Italian as some sort of slander. Happy Birthday to your best friend is not a reminder that everyone else in earshot is lacking a birthday to celebrate right then and there.
Is Noah's Bagles anti-Druid because the Druid's didnt invent the delicious snack AND they don't sell trees? No. Of course not.
This type of question is premised on a laughable idea and is plebian.
2006-12-06 04:54:46 · answer #3 · answered by William P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not saying Merry Christmas and geeting offended by it is stupid. You got your facts wrong the jewish population is not that large. I think they make up less than 3 %. There are more african americans and hispanics why don't we do anything for qwanza. People over analyze everything, take a chill pill, Whats the big deal let's think about how to destroy poverty instead.
2006-12-06 04:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by mary07 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If it's Christmas you're celebrating, "Merry Christmas" it should be. For a Jew to wish you a "Merry Christmas" and for you to wish a Jew a "Happy Hanukkah" is no more than a meaningless exchange of words, because to each, the others religion is false, but yet neither religion has any more credence than Voodoo to me.
2006-12-06 04:42:52 · answer #5 · answered by ranger12 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's anti-jewish at all. If you are Jewish and somebody wishes you a Merry Christmas, just smile and politely say "thank you" or "you to", I don't think they mean to be "anti-jewish" and life is too short to get so worked up about such things.
2006-12-06 16:50:25 · answer #6 · answered by plebes02 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't the insistance on never saying Merry Christmas anti Christian? Get over it. I don't care if Walmart says happy Hannukah to me, I'm not as easily as offended as the libs are
2006-12-06 04:36:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
From the war on Christmas to the war on the holidays, who didn't see that one coming.
2006-12-06 04:41:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be honest I dont care what people say, but its when people get offended and protest or rally against anything in particular being said, that is just stupid.
2006-12-06 04:34:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you can say whatever you want to say. What's next? Don't say "happy new year" because that offends the old year?
2006-12-06 04:35:20 · answer #10 · answered by Mysterio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋