As you may have heard, I have some thoughts about the ubiquitous “merry Christmas” greeting so I wrote something about it. (Spoiler alert: I’m not angry, lonely, or bitter. Just not a Christian.)https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/21/please-dont-wish-me-merry-christmas/ …
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Not to mention that neither Christmas trees nor reindeer are native to the Levant
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I agree at this point in our society the meaning isn't materially different than saying "happy thanksgiving"
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Agreed. Plus, most people have the holiday off so, at worst, "merry xmas" evokes collective solidarity around a day (or days) of rest
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I’m Jewish & my parents took my sister & I to the mall every year to get our photo taken with Santa!
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Good point
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Some people get great pleasure out of resurrecting dead antagonisms. They feel it adds a dimension of romance otherwise missing from their lives. Should we indulge them? Sure it makes them look sad and petty in our eyes. But they never cared about that.
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secular Christmas is huge in Turkey for example
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REALLY good point. Thanks for making it.
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“Let me tell you what the holiday actually is while I tel you how to feel about it.”
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We have a nation of emotional hemophiliacs... Excessively temperamental folks just looking to be annoyed. What happened to live and let live. Seems so easy and right.
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The perpetually perturbed
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Christmas is a christian holiday, and not everyone is a christian. The only reason you view it as "just as much as secular holiday" is because we live in a society where christians demand that everyone celebrate their holiday.
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No, it's viewed as secular because by the very nature of 81% of non-Christians and 87% of nonreligious celebrating it, it has evolved. The nonreligious parts of it are 99% of it for even Christians
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