from what i heard those stores just prohibited employees from saying 'marry CHRISTmas' and told them to say 'happy holidays'.
Christians and muslims are the primary victims of religious persecution. but there not the only ones. plus..... american christians do have the right to defend there beliefs. but dont say your persecuted. your not. go to africa. go to asia. go to any third world country and live as a christian. than you have the right to complain about persecution. until then.... shut up you week oversensative dramatic ungratefull moron.
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Kimball, I agree that merrick is making a decent point. Telling your staffers to say "happy holidays" or "seasons greetings" is not persecution, it's marketing because you can't always tell who you're greeting is christian or not.
How this equates to "don't put a 'Merry Christmas' banner in your home window" is little more than paranoia.
Then again, they're calling the big tree in Boston a "Holiday Tree" but equally bad is the media spin and people looking to throw another can of black ink at their "opponent". This applies to both the endtimes frantics and the politically correct doorknobs, because they're equally annoying.
I guess it's too much to ask Christians to shrug and keep calling it a Christmas tree and a Christmas season.
This whole "Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" debate really pisses me off. Who gives a shit what you call it? People need to just grow up and realize that *they* are the *only* ones who have total control over how they choose to take a particular moniker assigned to a particular holiday, date, anneversary, whatever. For christ's sake, just let people say what they want. Live and fucking let live.
Ok, I'm done.
Muslims persecuted, and Christians? just for the sake of not being said their holidays?, exile and live in countries which actually NEED our help because they haven't the most basic needs?, do you know that Moslems DON'T CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?, that's why they say happy holidays, not to offend them and the people of other confesions?, are you HONESTLY mocking the people in developing countries only because they use politically correct language?, and by the way, WHY DON'T YOU GO THERE IF YOU DARE?
I don't get what this guy's going for. He seems to bring up the first thing to go for the traditional, "Oh no, persecution!" thing, and then contradicts it in the second. But the way the first paragraph brings it up it doesn't seem to be there to be solely a set-up.
This year FoxNews and Republican candidates and the RNC and the NRA ALL put out "Happy Holidays" cards and web greetings. Proving once and for all the "War on Christmas" and complaints from all of the above mentioned has just been hypocritical shit-disturbing.
A huge case of "If we do it it's fine and respectful but if others do it they hate Christ"
Please say your first language isn't English. Please!
Why not give people the benefit of the doubt, and believe that they mean well when they say Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays. Why jump to the conclusion that they are trying to persecute you? I'm an atheist, but I wouldn't dream of being offended when someone says Merry Christmas to me. Probably because the word Christmas isn't really religiously charged in my head. I don't think people believe I'm a Germanic pagan when they wish me Happy Easter, either.
Africa and Asia are continents, you know that, don't you?
They both have first world countries, and they both have Christian and Muslim countries. Living as a Christian in South Africa, or as a Muslim in Indonesia is no problem.
Confused?
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