Re: OT: It's a Christmas tree daggone it!

Pan Ohco wrote:
>
> If you reread my above statement,I neither defended the practice nor
> opposed it. My point was that companies specifically stopped their
> salespeople from using the words "Merry Christmas".

Yes, some big retailers have asked their employees to use the phrase
'Happy Holidays' instead. How is that a threat to Christians? Don't
Christians want to have a happy holiday?

> The Christmas
> holiday is celebrated by about 90% of the people in the U.S.

If you mean 90% of the population is happy to take the day off from
work and school you're probably right. If you mean 90% are believing
Christians, that's a nonsense statistic.

> Of course if I was selling a dredle or gelt to someone, or if my
> customers was wearing a kepi, I would not say "Merry Christmas".

Be honest. Sure you would. You think only your holiday is the "right"
one.
>
> And why do you think that wishing someone a Merry Christmas, even if
> they don't celebrate Christmas, would offend them?

Because for years offended people have told the retailers it offends
them to be offered a religious greeting from a religion they don't
share. Same reaction you probably had when greeted by a Hare Krishna
zealot in an airport. The better question is, why are you offended by
a wish that you have a Happy Holiday?

> And why do you think pissing off your clientele, ( in this case
> christians) is good business?

The retailer wishes you a Happy Holiday. If that pisses you off,
you're purposely taking offense at an inoffensive statement. No sane
person lives his life to please Fox News or a mob of televangelists.
-aem

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