I feel those sayings are stupid and you should just say merry christmas or happy hanukah or whatever and you should'nt try to protect people's feelings because the majority of american's celebrate christmas even if their not Christian.
2006-12-13 12:07:48 · 56 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Merry Chritmas!!! :)
2006-12-13 12:09:19 · answer #1 · answered by brenda4ever 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody is "replacing" "Merry Christmas" with Happy Holidays or Season's Greetings. HH and SG have actually been around longer that Merry Xmas, and all three have quite peacefully existed alongside each other until that last few years when Conservative Christians started getting their knickers in a bunch and acting like the world is out to get them.
2006-12-16 21:01:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares? If you want to say Merry Christmas to a Jewish Person or Johavas Witness, or Happy Hannaukh to a a christain...then do so...your the one that will look stupid.
Its not even a politiacl thing...it Just makes sense.
Why would a huge corporation, for example, try and boost their holiday sales by saying merry christmas only? Happy Holidays covers it all...its really no big deal.
Honestly people, worry about something else besides this,,,its exhausting.
2006-12-13 12:13:15 · answer #3 · answered by stephasoris 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honestly i dont care because ti is up to people to say what every they want. I say Merry Christmas to everyone and if they say i dont celebrate christmas and they celebrate Hanukah( srry i cant spell) then i say hppy hanukah same with all the other holidays
2006-12-13 12:12:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The right thing to do is say "happy holidays" in certain situations. This saves a long drawn out discussion how the celebrate hanukah,Kwanzaa,ect. Its a holiday and Christmas is no more important.
2006-12-13 12:11:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Season's Greetings bothers me because it is so generic - you could honestly say that in the middle of the summer and it would still be correct!
However, wishing someone Happy Holidays (or Holy Days) makes sense to me because most of the winter holidays ARE Holy Days (with the exception of New Year's Day as far as I know), and that is what we are really celebrating, regardless of our chosen religion.
Those who celebrate Christmas as a commercial holiday are not celebrating the Holy Day, and so greeting them with either "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" is friendly but equally inaccurate as far as I'm concerned.
2006-12-13 12:19:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When employees are forbidden to say "Merry Christmas " , and instead say "Happy Holidays ",it offends me . Otherwise I see nothing wrong with "Happy Holidays". It wasn't an issue until certain stores began forbidding their help to say "Merry Christmas ". I always respond "Merry Christmas " , no matter what Christmas greeting I get .
2006-12-13 16:02:03 · answer #7 · answered by missmayzie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Merry Christmas!!!
The other day a check-out person at a store told me to have a nice "holiday". I felt like asking her which holiday she was referring to. The funny thing is that people who are trying to be generic and "non-offensive" (who would be offended by Christmas anyway?) probably do not realize that the term holiday comes from "holy day". Oh no! They are being spiritual and don't even know it!!! They must come up with a new generic term!!!
It is funny...Jesus is still intimidating to people, even 2000 years after his birth, which is the only reason for the season.
2006-12-13 12:21:27 · answer #8 · answered by pinkee 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, it really depends on what kind of person you are. From my opinion, if I celebrated Hannukah and Christmas, I would say Happy Holidays. I really dont think that Seasons Greetings is an appropriate greeting for when you are trying to greet someone according to holidays.
2006-12-13 12:12:30 · answer #9 · answered by Meaghan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't actually object to these sayings, as long as they don't replace "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Hanukkah", for example.
Let's face it, the majority of Americans celebrate Christmas & Hanukkah is in 2nd place. To eliminate specific holiday greetings in the name of political correctness is ridiculous.
2006-12-13 12:20:24 · answer #10 · answered by WillyC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think these are all okay. They are all positive, kind-hearted greetings. I am no more offended by "Happy Holidays" than I am by "Merry Christmas," "Happy Festivus," or "Joyous Take Your Daughter to Work Day." If someone wants to wish me multiple happy holidays (instead of just Christmas or Hannukah), or a happy season in general, why would I call this sentiment "stupid"?
No one is required to give us the particular greeting or good wishes that we want. We should be gracious and thankful to all of those who wish us well, on any holiday, all holidays, or in any season.
2006-12-13 12:22:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋