History channel ran the special ad with historical figures Napoleon, Churchill, Elizabeth, Louis Armstrong and Lincoln rolling to make big snowballs to build a snowman and then flash "Happy Holidays" at the end.

I smirked at the ad for being obviously politically correct. It has to do with the Jews who may not care (according to the custom, they do not) to observe Christmas. So Jews (not atheists and agnostics) kvetched and they got the demand to censure Merry Christmas fulfilled.

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say

At least here in Wal Mart Land, the United States of something or the other.

The Problem with saying, "merry christmas" is that December 25 has NOTHING to do with a person by the name of Jesus Christ. So why should we go around saying 'merry christmas' when the day has nothing to do with Christ? If you are agnostic, meaning that you do not subscribe to any particular religion, then I guess go ahead and say anything you want. But for those who think they believe in the person of Jesus Christ, why would you CONTINUE to perpetuate this myth of December 25? Especially considering that organized christianity has done nothing to bring about the truth of the gospel, nor peace on this earth??? Just look at what has been done in the name of christianity!!! I personally am not a christian, but I do believe in the work of a man who went by the name of Jesus, or Yeshua in Hebrew. In summary, if you are a person who claims to believe in Jesus, why would you want to continue to perpetuate the myth of December 25, which is really just a pagan holiday? If you are agnostic or a believer in another faith, it really doesn't matter how you greet someone this time of year.

Sweet and Saucy! =D Thank You!
& a Very Merry Christmas to you too Rhiannon!

Pray now and visualise the Earth free of war and free to love!!

We didn't do CC day at our place this year! A loving family reunion is much more important than any_thing else!

EVERYDAY iS CHRiSTMAS!

Happy Birthday YeHoshua!

I can tie up your two comments into one comment right here.

Isn't it a bit funny how it is the jew/zionist entity who are making fortunes on this Christian-Christmas holiday...but it's not okay to say Merry Christmas?

I mentioned this on another blogsite back in December 06, and my comment got removed.

It seems a very sociopathic israeli who called itself "beit shemesh" didn't like the revelation of the usual double standard practice by his/its entity.

Yes they drown us with Christmas songs like "The King of Israel" as if today's "sick bastard" of a country is comparable to the Israel of biblical times.

Correct me if I am wrong....

but wasn't Israel a spiritual concept, not a plot of land of that time????

Wasn't Israel a group of people that belonged to one of the 12 Hebraic Tribes???

Didn't these tribes live in a place called PALESTINE/Cana'an ????

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Thanks Grim!

the predominant language in the time of Jesus was Aramaic ...not Hebrew. Jesus spoke Aramaic.

Yes I have heard about how Jesus may not have been born on December 25.

I have read books that say he may have been born in January or April. All speculation.

I don't think it matters about all these myths. I think that all that matters is the spirit of what Christmas is all about.

And the meaning of Christmas is not about sick mass consumption to feed the pockets of the very few greedy elite/zionist "thing".

But that is what Christmas HAS become.

Commercials should be muted 365 days of the year. Christmas should not be about gifts.

Christmas should be about eating pumpkin pie....LOTS OF IT.

you're absolutely right, the kingdom of israel was never meant to be a secular-barbarian-state that enforces it's will through endless fear and deceptions, mass murder and brutalities. the people of nations; israel, went everywhere far and wide!

A really good point about the debt-usurymas that has so many people disillusioned about a celebration that really is quite simple. Such irony that we can make the zoopremacists rich in the name of Christ, but not speak his name; lest we be anti-shAMites!

Nobody is pure, only this or only that; variation keeps things interesting, but we are essentially all-the-same.
'pure' bred = in-bred

Some time ago I ceased to believe that opening any present would make me happy. If there is something that I really need, I'll get it.

As anyone who has watched a "Charley Brown Christmas Special" knows, it's more important to focus on the idea of spreading God's love with our fellow man. As the angel said to the shepherds long ago: "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord."

And of course, pumpkin pie with whipped cream. It's all about the pumpkin pie.
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"Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly."

iT iS Pi.

This is an interesting topic, I actually get to see the formation of the traditional formula for holidays. Of course as the time passes this formula will change but it's basis should remain the same: the joy of Christmas so greatly expressed in Christmas trees.