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I did some research and found a few interesting points of view on the subject. In many instances, I found that Atheists aren't as offended by the greeting as they are annoyed by it.
The article continues to explain that the people who say Merry Christmas have good intentions, but are insensitive and ignorant in assuming the person they're greeting in such a manner is Christian.
I saw a similar complaint in a discussion where the Atheist believed that Christians would be just as annoyed if a non-Christian greeted them with Happy Ramadan. I think a lot of Christians and non-Muslims alike wouldn't even know what Ramadan is, so in my opinion, the latter analogy doesn't hold much validity.
Even if they did know what it was, I don't believe they'd be offended by it. I don't know a single Christian who's offended by 'Happy Hanukkah. There's hardly any arguing that. Even people who practiced other religions at least knew and understood what Christmas was because there simply wasn't any getting away from it.
It wouldn't be any different if we were Christians living where the religion is predominantly something other than Christian. There's little doubt we wouldn't be aware of every one of the other's religious holidays. We'd probably even celebrate some of the bigger ones with them. We might even be compelled to say Happy Ramadan to our Muslim neighbors out of politeness and respect, even though we might accidentally say it to someone who happens to not be Muslim, they'd probably expect that, and return the greeting.
But that's the problem right there, isn't it? The things that are lacking with the people who get offended or annoyed by hearing Merry Christmas is politeness and respect. I understand a lot of the reasons why people loathe religion; Christianity in particular, and I'm aware of the real history behind Christmas and how it originated, but whatever the reasons, they should at least be polite and respectful to others who choose to follow the Christian practice.
If the people against it want to make a useful stand against it they could do it in a constructive manner through discussion and education and through public or private remembrances of how the Holiday originated, not by displaying hatred and anger.
Banning Christmas related sayings and traditions just makes the people fighting it look like a bunch of haters that want to ruin everything for everyone else without any cause or reason. I wonder how these people would feel if someone bit their head off for wishing them a Happy Halloween?
Many religions are offended by Halloween because it has pagan origins. Maybe we're beginning to see the hypocrisy here. Yes, there is one; or maybe a few, but I'll let the reader determine what they are at this point. For the sake of moving along, we'll move along. For those interested in learning more, I'll post the link here.
In the research I compiled for this article, I found it very difficult to put a finger on exactly who it is that's raging this "War Against Christmas," as many are calling it.
I've seen the Jewish people blamed, the liberals, the Muslims, the Atheists, and just about everyone else short of Bugs Bunny. Every article seemed biased with their own personal agendas and simply weren't credible or believable enough to source. My suspicion is that it's some large, special-interest group that has a lot of power, influence, and money, and they're doing it for reasons that have nothing much to do with religion. No one found that inappropriate; no one saw it as proselytizing.
Where she came from, Vilnius, the capital city on the shores of the Baltic Sea, she explained, religious freedom was virtually nonexistent.
She would find kindred spirits among Russian-speaking congregants in the synagogue she attended in Brighton; together they started a group called Chaveirim, meaning friends. I want them to comprehend how you can have all these different beliefs and still be together as one country. Opinion Opinion Columnists.
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