There has been an aweful lot of talk this year about what you can say and what you should say to wish one another well this December. Christmas songs are banned where Hanukkah songs are not. There was a report last week on Air America that the White House staff had been instructed to only greet phone calls with Merry Christmas. Target doesn't and Wal-Mart does. And this just touches the very least of the insanity. Insanity that I find on both sides. I really don't care if you want to wish me a Happy Hanukkah. Really if it means the same to you as Merry Christmas means to me, then I should take it as an honjoyous Kwanzaaor not an insult. Nor should you take my offering of Merry Christmas as an insult. I am not telling you that you have to be a Christian. If I wanted to to that, really I just would (though I tend to think I would use just a bit more tact than that). What I am offering to you is the richest blessing that I have to offer. Boy is that insulting! So take my Merry Christmas in the spirit that it is offered by me and by millions of others and I promise to take your Happy Hanukkah, joyous Kwanzaa, or any other greeting of the season in the spirit in which it was intended, even a Happy Holidays.
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Yeah, Dave...you'd do it with a "bit more tact." You kill me.
I completely agree...it's about the sentiment. I know some Jewish folks...they know I'm a Christian, so they say Merry Christmas to me. I respond with Happy Hanukkah. It's good to see more stores this year allowing their employees to use the Christmas greeting instead of the politically correct "happy holidays".
So to you, my friend...MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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