So Bill O'Reilly has created a crusade against "Happy Holidays". This is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Why? Three reasons:
1. Bill O'Reilly's employer FOX news, calls their gathering around this time a "Holiday Party" as do most companies.
2. Not all Americans are Christian and to be historical about it, the founding fathers didn't want to celebrate "Christmas" at all because it was thought of as being "too english". In fact, the holiday didn't even become national in the US until Grant signed it into law in 1870. For those that can't do the math, that was pretty close to half of our existence as a country.
3. People have been saying Happy Holidays for a long fuckin' time, and for O'Reilly to media spin this into some agenda against Christianity, well let's just say the problem right now is not people wishing each other "Happy Holidays", but O'Reilly trying to use a pompous self-righteous attitude to dictate specifics on how people communicate. This is a media hoax intended to keep you from paying attention to the truth about Iraq, the current policy wars that are going on in Congress and the failed administration that is in power.
Well at least Bush will walk into his second term with the lowest approval and highest disapproval rating ever in history. That's a mandate you can count on!
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Well I can partially agree with you Ligit, with some apprehension. I think that the holiday season has been so ingrained in our business culture that it would be a failure to remove it entirely. However, it would be more understandable if the holiday were a floating holiday in the month of December. Here's my basis.
Many people once felt that the folks that got screwed on Christmas were the jews, that is until they learned that they have eight days of Channukah instead of just one Christmas. So the focus was redirected to the creation of Kwanzaa as a holiday for those of African decent to appreciate their roots in a winter festival(note I didn't use solstice, I'll get to that). The point I'm trying to gather here is that we made an attempt to make a Christmas for everybody, this year it was coined Christmahannukwanzaa, as lame as that is(note the preference order of the name, Christ, Judaism, Black folks). Then I learned something, Channukah isn't a big deal to adult jews, nor is it a religious holiday! I know you're shocked. But it's true. Channukah, or the festival of light is a celebration of a battle where the jews were able to keep the temple lit miraculously with one lamp for eight days. It's also more of a children's holiday than the big hubbub that the birth of Christ about four months early brings. So I think you should get two days any time in December. Then you could put those days anywhere and they could be considered winter holiday. What'ya think?
A brief word on the solstice comment. I received one of those "nondenominational" holiday greetings, and it ended in "whatever winter solstice celebration of your persuasion" Well the reason I bring this up is because only Anglo based societies or western culture societies even know what a solstice is religiously! The solstice is not a significant part of the eastern or middle eastern worlds. It's a pagan festival based on the moon and the sun cycles and created by the druids in Ireland. The solstice merely made Christian conversion easy because they were able to push Christ's birth back so that it didn't get in the way of Easter(more pagan stuff, trust me), which made a better match with passover than the birth did. Okay that's my dirt, discuss.
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