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The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With 'Merry Christmas' Over 'Happy Holidays', a Poll Finds
"Merry Christmas" is the preferred greeting of a strong majority of Americans. A survey carried in conjunction by news outlet Axios and SurveyMonkey found that 65 percent of the participants wish to be greeted with "Merry Christmas," while 28% prefer "Happy Holidays."
"Happy Holidays" was invented because 100% of Americans aren't Christian. But 65%? Congratulations! You just found a percentage of your sample audience that is Christian! Now you just have to ask yourself: Do you support tolerance of others?
Sorry, but no.
Preference does not require intolerance, but bigotry does.
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I would love to be greeted by a oral sex from every single 20 year old woman that weighs less than 150 lbs. But that is not the issue. What is the issue is how the people that do NOT want to do that feel.
On Dec 24 and Dec 25th, I enjoy being wished a Merry Christmas. It's a great sentiment and I reply the same. So on Dec 24 and on Dec 25th, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
But I do not do that on Thanksgiving. Nor do I do it on New Year's Eve. Doing that would be obnoxious. I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving or a Happy New Year on those days.
Similarly, on Hanuka I wish everyone a Happy Hanuka. It's kind of a dick move to wish someone a Merry Christmas on Dec 13th, the first day of Hannuka.
The rule should be:
If you know someone is christian, or today actually IS Christmas or Christmas Eve, again, wish them a Merry Christmas.
But for all other situations, wish them Happy Holidays, so you don't do force your religion on them.
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Assuming the various tales are true, then NO, the Jews did not kill Jesus. He was executed under Roman law by Roman authorities, and the religion of Rome was a polytheism based on Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Neptune, Pluto, et.al., and also involved the Romulus-Remus myth.
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You should check the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution is the framework for operations, the Declaration of Independence is the reason for the nation to exist. And the Declaration does start off with God and the Creator right in the first two paragraphs. Deism was central to the creation of the US - our rights come from our Creator, not from man or anything else. At least according to the founders.
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Read your Bible...
Then the leading priests and the older Jewish leaders had a meeting at the palace where the high priest lived. The high priestâ(TM)s name was Caiaphas. 4 In the meeting they tried to find a way to arrest and kill Jesus without anyone knowing what they were doing. They planned to arrest Jesus and kill him. 5 They said, âoeWe cannot arrest Jesus during Passover. We donâ(TM)t want the people to become angry and cause a riot.â
What makes the whole shit even more hilarious is that of all the things celebrated at this day, the birth of Jesus is the only one that certainly didn't happen at this day.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's the merry part I object to. I am not a merry man!
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The majority of Americans also knows that when some one says "Happy Holidays" that there's no reason to be offended. Meanwhile there's a minority of shitheels who want to be thought police and control what people say during the holidays.
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