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re: Merry Christmas

Posted by:
Dr_Rock 12:54 pm UTC 12/26/08
In reply to: re: Merry Christmas - Pudding 07:47 pm UTC 12/25/08

It's just that I've never known of anyone to put up a Holiday tree or get presents from Father Holiday.

>
>
> > > It shouldn't offend anyone, it's just not everyone
> > > celebrates/likes Christmas but most people recognise it as
> > > a holida that's all :)
> >
> > If they don't like Christmas then they're probably not
> > going to have a very happy holiday anyway so there's
> > probably no point wishing them one!
> >
> > (After all, there's rather a lot of Christmas about on
> > this particular holiday so it's not like they can avoid
> > it!)
>
> Since Christmas in the traditional sense is very rarely
> celebrated and most people are only interested in the
> commercial aspects of it, then it really is only a holiday
> with a fancy name. And if we want to get into the nitty
> gritty of it, Jesus wasn't born on 25th December anyway,
> that date was stolen from either, Attis (Roman God),
> Dionysus (Greek God), Osiris (Egyptian God) or Mithra
> (Persian God), in fact most of Christian celebrations are
> stolen from other religions, and Jesus was a jew.


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