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#21 Postby angelwing » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:20 am

Merry Christmas! I pay no mind to that PC crap and never will!
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#22 Postby dizzyfish » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:30 am

Merry Christmas!!!!!
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#23 Postby cycloneye » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:17 am

Thanks to all for those responses to my question.So both ways are good to say but Merry Christmas is the one most use.
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#24 Postby Pburgh » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:41 pm

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
If I know someone is Jewish, I will wish them a Happy Hannukah.
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#25 Postby feederband » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:00 pm

I am non- religious but I have always said Merry Christmas...
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#26 Postby fwbbreeze » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:16 pm

Either one is fine with me, however I always say Merry Christmas and you know, to this day I have yet to ever hear one person complain!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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#27 Postby southerngale » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:59 pm

fwbbreeze wrote:Either one is fine with me, however I always say Merry Christmas and you know, to this day I have yet to ever hear one person complain!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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Me either. I always say Merry Christmas because that's what I'm celebrating and it comes out naturally. I'd be more likely to say Happy Holidays after Christmas and before New Year's to cover both holidays. During the Christmas season, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and they always wish me one back. :) I think too much attention is given to what we say. PC crap...blah!
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#28 Postby Regit » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:20 pm

It would be nice to live in a society where a good person's attempt to be polite and inclusive was not dismissed as "PC crap."
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#29 Postby Brent » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:11 pm

I just say Merry Christmas usually, without thinking. I've said it all my life so it's hard to change.
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#30 Postby Derek Ortt » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:57 pm

I am a Christian so I say Merry Christmas, without worrying or caring if the person is offended. Better to offend people here than the big man upstairs. I do get offended when people try and say one must say happy holidays, though it is appropriate if wishing Merry Christmas AND New Years Day
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#31 Postby Regit » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:09 pm

Well I don't worry in the least about offending "the big man upstairs" when greeting people on a holiday that people invented. I think God would be much more concerned about people greeting someone "without worrying or caring if the person is offended."

Plus, the Sabbath is much more important to God than Christmas, and we don't even celebrate it on the correct day either. It's Saturday. When was the last time anyone here kept Saturday holy?
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#32 Postby gtalum » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:42 pm

Regit wrote:Plus, the Sabbath is much more important to God than Christmas, and we don't even celebrate it on the correct day either. It's Saturday. When was the last time anyone here kept Saturday holy?


I think that like many Christians you have missed the main point of the New Testament. ;)
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#33 Postby Regit » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:01 pm

gtalum wrote:
Regit wrote:Plus, the Sabbath is much more important to God than Christmas, and we don't even celebrate it on the correct day either. It's Saturday. When was the last time anyone here kept Saturday holy?


I think that like many Christians you have missed the main point of the New Testament. ;)


No, I didn't at all. I was really just speaking to those who cling on to the OT rules and traditions. I like to call them Jewtians. They say they are Christians, but think we should all live by the Old Testament and when you bring up something from the NT, they think you're a hippie weenie.

I've just never understood why Christmas is so important, but the Sabbath day isn't.
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#34 Postby Yarrah » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:46 pm

Regit wrote:I've just never understood why Christmas is so important, but the Sabbath day isn't.

I guess it's just some sort of human urge to celebrate that the days are becoming longer and that a new year is coming. Celtic and Germanic tribes celebrated it (Yule for example) and so did the Romans. Christianity just prolonged an ancient tradition and combined it with something 'new'.
As for the Sabbath, I think that it's just too hard for a lot of people to stop working for a whole day in this competitive world.

Anyway, to stay on-topic, the best translation fo what I usually say here would be 'happy holidays'. I never hear anything like 'merry Christmas' here.
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#35 Postby Derek Ortt » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:54 pm

In the NT, Christ commanded us to treat everyday as if it is holy, not just the Sabbath. Therefore, if we do things differently on the Sabbath and consider it to be holy, we are disobeying his command to keep every day holy
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#36 Postby Regit » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:14 pm

Derek Ortt wrote:In the NT, Christ commanded us to treat everyday as if it is holy, not just the Sabbath. Therefore, if we do things differently on the Sabbath and consider it to be holy, we are disobeying his command to keep every day holy



Well OK, if you're going by the NT in that respect why the total disregard for the feelings of others?

EDIT: I should mention that regardless of the NT, there are still many Christians who hold the Sabbath as a unique day of the week. I was referring to those types in my previous message.
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#37 Postby azskyman » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:51 pm

Merry Christmas to family; Happy Holidays to friends and acquaintances.
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#38 Postby Derek Ortt » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:14 pm

the feelings of others do not supercede spreading of the gospel.

One should never stop worshiping and proclaiming one's love for him, solely because others do not believe. It is explained in the parable of the sower, Matthew 13:1-23
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#39 Postby coriolis » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:12 am

I'm not going to wish someone a happy or merry anything if they're going to be miserable about it.
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#40 Postby coriolis » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:19 am

gtalum wrote:
azsnowman wrote:It's Merry Christmas in my book....if it offends someone, too bad, after all, it's SUPPOSED to be about Christs Birth 8-)


Uh huh. But what about the folks that don't celebrate Jesus' birth, but instead celebrate Hannukah?



gtalum: Don't take this in a threatening way. I'm just curious. What do you celebrate?
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