Oh, shit. It's started AGAIN. Today on Facebook "Like if you say Merry Christmas."

[CTyankee]

We haven't even gotten thru the Columbus Day controversy (which I agree with) and now we are in the Halloween controversy. Why is anybody looking for the Merry Christmas controversy so early?

I am tempted to ditch Facebook entirely (I've blocked several people). But otherwise I wouldn't see pics of my grandkids...but I have rid myself with more than a few "offenders."

[elleng]

1. None of my fb friends are 'offenders,' yank.

Just lucky, I guess!

Was in Hallmark store today for birthday card, and 1/3 of the store is for Christmas! When I noted this, an employee said it's related to weather, when it starts to change, so do the displays.

Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas!!!

HECK with Halloween, which is the beginning of the END!!!

[CTyankee]

8. Oy. Here we go again!

[smirkymonkey]

2. Are people still really going on about this?

I don't go on social media, but here in Boston people don't really seem to have a problem w/ "Happy Holidays" and in NYC you ALWAYS said "Happy Holidays" unless you knew for sure what specific holiday someone celebrated.

[CTyankee]

13. I am just amazed that I see this AGAIN. I can't tell you how many people I've blocked on Facebook

because of repub talking points about stuff that were so obnoxious I had to rid them from my life.

Now this. And the person who posted is a nice friend.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. You can block that kind of post without blocking the person

Click on the upper right hand corner. One of the options is "I don't want to see this".

[CTyankee]

20. I know. I do that all the time now. And I'll do it with this one, too...pretty soon I won't

allow anyone on my facebook page

except my grandkids...

[smirkymonkey]

18. I would just think that they would be tired of this juvenile crap by now.

Why do they make an issue of it every single year? People are going to do what they do. All their whining isn't going to change anything and it just creates a lot of ugliness around the season. I guess some people aren't happy unless they are outraged about something.

[hifiguy]

24. People with juvenile mentalities

never, ever get sick of juvenile behavior.

[smirkymonkey]

25. I guess it's the annual "Airing of the Grievances".

They must be celebrating Festivus!!

[hifiguy]

26. Festivus is MY kind of holiday.

[smirkymonkey]

31. That's good! So next time you hear someone whine about people who say "Happy Holidays" you

can demonstrate the Festivus holiday tradition of "Feats of Strength" and kick their arse into next January!

[mountain grammy]

67. Exactly. Annoying adults behaving like children.

such a stupid, non issue.

[yeoman6987]

28. Outrage is everywhere

We are a country in constant outrage. And that is daily with one thing after another. It does not discriminate.

[oswaldactedalone]

3. Looking forward to another year

of skirmishes fighting the War on Christmas. Santa gonna find out what stand your ground means when he tries to enter my house.

[CTyankee]

14. damned straight. It's a goddamn war out there...

[Sherman A1]

4. My "holiday" greeting is

Happy Rock Salt!

It usually catches them off guard....

[ananda]

27. And Happy Cracker Jacks back atcha!

[Sherman A1]

34. Thank You Kindly

That's one I will remember!

[peacebird]

5. I take no offense if someone says Merry Christmas, Happy Hannuka, Feliz Navidad, Joyous Kwanzaa

peace be with you, joy to the world, happy yule, whatever... I always smile and return the greeting.

I assume they mean well.

[CTyankee]

9. That is a wise response and I agree entirely! Thanks!

[cwydro]

21. I'm the same.

And if they say "God bless" or "have a blessed day," I smile as well.

Life is too short to take offense at people trying to be nice.

[smirkymonkey]

22. Don't forget Festivus...

for the rest of us!

[840high]

38. ...+1

[Mariana]

57. In October?

These fools are going on about this as if they expect people to be saying "Merry Christmas" to them NOW.

[patricia92243]

6. What is the Halloween controversy? I haven't heard that one.

[CTyankee]

12. something about witches some xians don't like. It's like pagan stuff.

Buncha shit...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Yes

They call it fall festival instead.

[CTyankee]

23. OK. well, that's cool. ..

fall festival my ass...

[yeoman6987]

30. I feel the same way with winter solstice.... Merry Christmas!

[MrScorpio]

47. Halloween is coming...

[phylny]

50. We have "trunk or treat" at my church.

Being in a rural area, there's no opportunity for the kids to go door to door, so we dress up, open our trunks filled with candy, and have the kids come to us.

One person I know was going "on and on" about the "war on Christmas" and I said, "Talk to me when December 25th isn't a national holiday."

And a comment upthread is true, coming from NY, we *always* said "Happy Holidays" if we didn't know what a person celebrates. If we did, we'd wish a "Happy Hanukkah" or "Merry Christmas" and for some, it was just "Happy New Year."

[displacedtexan]

7. The most hilarious aspect to me...

... is the fact that these faux Christians have no idea that "holiday" means "holy day."

Morons.

[NightWatcher]

10. Don't do what I did. I responded to a keep Christ in Christmas post

By replying "Jesus Christ, we're doing this again."

I deleted a few minutes later

[hifiguy]

29. Tell them the truth.

The early xtians co-opted the ancient mid-winter Roman festival Saturnalia for their own purposes.

Xmas is just a Roman festival of eating, drinking and gluttony to celebrate the return of the celestial orb, with a different name.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. I signed up for facebook once. 36 hours later I deleted my account.

And for the record, as an atheist, I say "Merry Christmas" to people all through the season. I make it an enjoyable secular holiday for myself, my family members, and my friends. As far as I'm concerned, Easter is about the bunnies and eggs, and Christmas is about Santa, family, and warming up an otherwise cold and dreary winter season.

[CTyankee]

16. yep, who the hell cares. I say Merry Christmas to my christian friends and happy holidays

to others when I don't really know their affiliation. I've never been "corrected."

[smirkymonkey]

56. Also, another point about "Happy Holidays"...

I always thought it encompassed Christmas Eve, Christmas AND New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, so even if you are a Christian, you shouldn't be offended because people are really wishing you a happy holiday season.

[ProfessorGAC]

60. Especially Given. . .

. . .that New Year's Day is a Holy Day in catholicism. So, technically one should be wishing that as a happy day too, and nobody should take offense.

[Populist_Prole]

61. I've never been on FB, But my new fiancee is a Facebook junkie

She's a wonderful woman but it seems she forms so many of her views on FB. The "wall" she shows me is but a massive cavalcade of mostly RW crap. Almost like a clearing house of RW email forward type messages, corny as all get-out inspiration bits of wisdom, Flag-waving USA! USA! USA! memes, and the usual boycott exhortations for firms that don't say merry x-mass instead of happy holidays. Snopes would have a field day with this shit.

I say all this because she's not conservative, or even political at all. It all comes from the FB crap; and so I hear a steady stream of vulgar patriotism, military and law-enforcement worship, and curiously, a dislike of anything French. I told her the French were instrumental in helping the fledgling US win the revolutionary war: She said "Bite me".

FB just seems like 'Reader's Digest' overlayed on AOL internet.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Annoying isn't it?

I told a high school classmate of mine who posted that to look in our yearbook from forty years ago. Happy Holidays was on the sign of one of the area merchants.

It's sad how gullible some people are.

[Historic NY]

32. Santa Claus is now on the city council.........now its political.

Last edited Fri Oct 16, 2015, 12:12 AM - Edit history (1)

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/10/15/santa-claus-elected-to-north-pole-alaska-city-council

[tandot]

33. Just respond back with an indignant "ALL holidays matter"

maybe just post something pointing out that you don't like that they discriminate against other holidays

not something I came up with ... someone posted it here.

[GoCubsGo]

46. Yep.

I usually reply, "And, a Happy Festivus for the rest of us." I don't get why it is so difficult for some people to understand that not everyone is a Christian, and therefore, not everyone celebrates THEIR religious holidays.

[CTyankee]

55. I've tried. Some have given me dirty looks. I have had to distance myself from one "friend"

already. I won't ditch her entirely but just steer clear...she's a bit difficult...

[BarbaRosa]

37. I replied to a friend who is into this stuff as such:

Here's my routine, Happy Halloween, Happy Holidays. Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and then through the rest of them as they happen, with as many Happy Birthdays as needed.
He thought that was a good plan.

[ThoughtCriminal]

43. My town has an annual "Testicle Festival"

I'm not sure what the proper greeting is and I'm afraid to get pulled into the debate.

[Reter]

44. Any link?

n/t

[hobbit709]

45. I just say "Merry Fucking Ho-Hos!"

[Skittles]

48. may I ask something

why can't pics of your grandkids just be emailed straight to you?

[oldandhappy]

49. Two years ago I gave my FB list a severe hair cut!

Keep your family, ditch anyone who does not nourish you!

[CTyankee]

51. some FB friends don't knowingly offend...they "Like" stuff and then it appears on my Facebook

pages. I'm getting tired of going through and clicking where I can delete any posts about whatever subject that I have no interest in. It's the price I pay for seeing my grandkids and good friends I don't want to lose touch with.

[deutsey]

52. You should ask them if they refuse to say the days of the week

They're all named in reverence of pagan gods and goddesses.

The Sun's day, the Moon's day, Tiw's day, Woden's day, etc.

[CTyankee]

53. good one, deutsey!

[Javaman]

54. I have always said Happy Holidays.

not just because I'm an atheist, but it's the polite thing to do. xtains don't hold a monopoly on the month of December.

[Mariana]

58. I'm very happy to wish people a Merry Christmas

when it's actually close to Christmas, say, after the 20th of December. I'm not going to do it for six or eight or twelve weeks ahead of time. That's ridiculous. These people are complaining in October? Give me a break.

[Reter]

66. With all due respect, I've never heard anyone in 40 years say it "eight or 12 weeks ahead of time"

I've heard a few say it 5 or 6 weeks before Christmas, but late September or October? Never.

[Mariana]

68. Not yet.

Just wait a few years. Remember, these people are complaining now, they aren't waiting until late November or December to start in about it.

[Lancero]

59. I say it, on Christmas.

It's appropriate on that day - Well, using it on Christmas Eve is fine to - but if you use it any other time then that, you're an idiot.

[JNelson6563]

64. Has the war started up again ALREADY?

I had better gear up and send out the clarion call to all the Happy Holidays foot soldiers!

Thanks for the heads up!

Julie

[Snobblevitch]

65. I was once a bit put off by a sign in a store that said "Happy Holiday".

It was last July and was referencing the Independence Day weekend. By the handwriting on the dry erase board at the Aldi store, it was written by an ignorant young female.