Can someone explain to me why saying "Happy Holidays" means that you are Satanic?

[CoffeeCat]

What in the world is wrong with people...SERIOUSLY.

"Happy Holidays" is inclusive-- well wishes and and joy extended to EVERYONE.

If you're Christian, Jewish, someone who doesn't practice religion, someone who practices a religion that does not celebrate Christmas, or someone who worships a totem pole--you're included in "Happy Holidays".

How can one group of people be so rankled to the point of vitriol about a greeting? How do people get so small and petty?

"Happy Holidays" acknowledges the season--and the celebrations and joy that everyone will experience during December.

It doesn't denigrate anyone or any religion--it celebrates all of us!

A person who finds a war in the words "Happy Holidays" is attempting to infuse selfish, bratty, bizarre behavior into a season that is about love, peace and giving.

Why must the rest of the world be subjected to their tired, seasonal persecution-complex meltdowns that are nothing but a whirling carousel of narcissistic temper tantrums from hell?

This is really getting old.

[Scuba]

1. Because if the Republican base isn't outraged, they might not vote.

[CoffeeCat]

4. ha! So true...

I guess you're right. Whip them into a frenzy--via hair-on-fire commentaries by Glenn Beck and O'Reilly--and maybe they'll vote for idiots like Mitt Romney.

Lord knows their ideas and policies aren't inspiring.

[hrmjustin]

2. Because FoxNews and others pushing this stuff make money off of it.

[libodem]

11. You are right hrm

Bill O'Liely, likes to sit there, all fair and balanced, and create contrived controversy, for money and ratings.

There are no laws against making shit up and calling it news.

[loli phabay]

3. simple because then you are anti santa, anti saint nick

It means you worship not santa but but his evil twin satan, old nick. See simples.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. Because many of the 80% of Americans who identify as Christians..

Are a repressed minority.

That's why.

[NuclearDem]

6. It's ignorance on the part of the outraged.

Happy Holidays originally started as a condensed way to say "merry Christmas and a happy new year."

Most of the outraged don't know that, but now that they see other December holidays gaining acceptance they kneejerk.

[KittyWampus]

7. People with a chip on their shoulder generally have a lot invested in keeping it there.

IMO, it has a lot to do with ones inability to self-reflect.

Spending all ones energy on finding fault with others helps divert attention from ones own faults.

[snooper2]

8. Because the acronym is HH

And that can only mean two things---

Happy Hour, or Holy Hell...


And when they are combined you get Happy Hour in Holy Hell like this!

[NuclearDem]

15. Neonazis and the Aryan Brotherhood has another meaning for HH

[The_Commonist]

9. It's all part of divide and conquer.

Keep us proles at each others' throats, so maybe we won't notice how badly we are being ripped off.

[cali]

10. Why are you seriously asking this question when the answer is so in your face obvious?

It's all about demonizing liberals and the left.

Hardly a secret.

[seveneyes]

12. Hypersensitive souls

The same kind of people that would put words in others mouths to make themselves seem superior to their peers. Trolls guarding their own private bridge. People that think their religion trumps all others, or no religion at all.

[onehandle]

13. It's a plot by the corpses of Bing Crosby and Irving Berlin.

Famed Satanists.

[Nye Bevan]

14. Anyone who is offended by "Happy Holidays" is smallminded and petty.

As is anyone who is offended by "Merry Christmas".

[Yavin4]

16. Without fake moral outrage, how else can you get working class White males to vote

for economic policies that primarily benefit the uber-rich?

[Orsino]

17. Because the TV tells you so.

And hate radio.

Weak minds are historically easy prey for the demonizers. Even the word "inclusive" has been registered as code for anti-Christian and anti-white.

[darkangel218]

18. Only if you include a Hail Belzebub card which plays Hotel California backwords.

I think.

[The2ndWheel]

19. "How can one group of people be so rankled to the point of vitriol about a greeting?"

I don't know. What happens when someone says Merry Christmas?

"Why must the rest of the world be subjected to their tired, seasonal persecution-complex meltdowns that are nothing but a whirling carousel of narcissistic temper tantrums from hell?"

That's at least bordering on vitriolic.

[EC]

20. Plus it's all season

not just Christmas. The heck with everyone else. If I'm seeing someone that I'll only see once or twice during the holidays I say Happy Holidays...if it's someone I see almost daily, it's Merry Christmas or whatever they celebrate.

[Jesus Malverde]

21. Happy Holidays emerged as a way for corporations to market Christmas..

in a way that appeals to all consumers.

Acceptable totems are poinsettias, penguins, santa, christmas lights (as long as they are not shaped like a pine shaped tree), deer, mistletoe and garland.

It's pretty much the way to go if your in a diverse evironment and your polite.

[Iggo]

22. Because this...

\m/ \m/

[11 Bravo]

23. It doesn't. Unless you're O'Reilly, Palin, or some other mentally deficient asswipe who ...

thinks they can make a few bucks by whining about a non-existent state of affairs.

[Jamaal510]

24. It's just another wedge topic

to get their side outraged, like with guns and abortions.

[Rex]

25. People that could not find anything to be outraged about

went with that one.

[louis-t]

26. 'Happy Holidays' has been around at least 50 years.

Andy Griffith show, Christmas 1963. Camera pulls away at the end to show giant banner across the front of the courthouse that reads: Happy Holidays.

By the way, a couple of wingnut fox viewers were in my office today. 75+ years old. It's like they can't wait to bring this shit up. "Taxes are SOOOO outrageously high under Obama!1!1!!1" to which I asked "Oh, right, which taxes were the ones he raised, I can't remember? I know that taxes on the richest people in the country are lower than they've ever been." Silence. Then they went into a rant that started with "IF I HAVE TO LISTEN TO 'HAPPY HOLIDAY' ONE MORE TIME..." And then they scrunch up their little faces and put on the ugly look, the same look my 85 year old aunt gets when she talks about the evils of 'socialized medicine'.
So I asked "Is someone saying YOU have to say Happy Holiday? Is someone trying to stop YOU from saying Merry Christmas? Do you think YOU can force everyone else to say Merry Christmas?"
"We-e-e-ll..." was all one of them could muster. I said "Life's too short to worry about things you have no control over." I kept a client and hopefully they learned something.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Oh I am already going to hell, seriously

1.- I am jewish.

2.- I don't believe in Hell (or heaven for that matter)

So there!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!

[Johonny]

28. Because Satanists takes Holidays while good Christians work themselves to death

so some tired blessed job creator can afford to take a vacation on the moon.

[Niceguy1]

29. they were always be people they get upset over

anything whether you say Merry Christmas , happy holidays ,happy Thanksgiving et cetera someone will complain.

[TDale313]

30. Because to the Fundies,

Diversity, acknowledging other religions and pov's, treated others who have other traditions and beliefs with respect... This is evil. If you think there's only one "right" way, it's wrong to be "accepting" of other paths. It's probably the one common denominator of Fundamentalist thinking of all stripes. I've got "the answer"- and I'm doing you a favor in forcing you to see that.

[Voice for Peace]

31. syadiloh yppah

that's why

[Alkene]

38. As you've observed, it only becomes audible satanism when played back in reverse. n/t

[PeaceNikki]

32. To quote a great scientist...

[LadyHawkAZ]

33. Because the kind of people likely to get pissy about "Happy Holidays"

only acknowledge one religion- theirs- and that's all you are allowed to acknowledge.

Anything less is Satanic.

[Coyotl]

34. It is abuse of the word "Holy"

Cuz you can't be holy and happy at the same time

[TBF]

35. They're idiots. nt

[Vashta Nerada]

36. There is no rational explanation.

Apparently not saying "Merry Christmas" takes the christ out of christmas, you know, that christian holiday that seems eerily similar to the pagan holiday Saturnalia.

[we can do it]

37. I doesn't. Holiday comes from holy day for the dimwits who don't know.

They are not worth your energy.