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That time of year "The War on Christmas"
By Lynda Appell of Artists for Recovery
Once more its that time of year. Yes its the yearly "War on Christmas" Notice I put the phrase in quotes. I am not bashing one's religion. You can believe what ever your heart desires. What I resent is there's a notion that Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings or other inclusive greetings constitutes a war on holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. First of all nobody is going to prevent Christians from celebrating Jesus Christ's birthday in the privacy of their home or apartment. There isn't a single person preventing well wishers from saying Merry Christmas to each other too. What people do in private is up to them. That is the key word private. The phrases Happy Holidays and/or Season's Greetings and other similar expressions are said in businesses. They are mostly spoken or expressed in department and specialty stores. It is a business decision. The purpose of retail stores is to please as many customers as possible. They are public places doing their best to please the public. The phrases mentioned earlier are inclusive. Merry Christmas is exclusive. True the vast majority of the US population to varying degrees practices Christianity. Its a fact too
not everybody believes in the tenets of the majority creed. There are Jews, Moslems, Hindis, Bahai, Buddhist and other faiths represented in the US. There are those who observe Hanukkah and Kwanzah or a different holiday.
Its being sensitive to minorities. Its wishing everyone a holiday wish. When the phrases Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings are said it includes Christians as well as other religions too. The only one's truly left out are atheists I pondered what would be the ideal solution that would most likely please everybody. I thought of something likek "Happy what ever you celebrate" Yet as soon as I wrote my previous sentence I heard how awkward it sounded. Well perhaps there isn't an ideal solution. Except to realize there is no war on Christmas. If that really was the case, there wouldn't be so many houses with flashing colored lights, rain deer, Santa Claus sculpture, candy canes throughout this great land of ours. There would be Christmas Carols. There wouldnt be TV Christmas specials or Christmas themed movies this time of year. |
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