Shari wrote:
The U.S. is starting their battles in this arena as well. Our megastore Walmart who stopped saying Merry Christmas, instead moving to Happy Holidays. The majority of their customers were so unhappy that they had to put it back. But it's the beginning of the ending... I'm sure the battle will rage on in years to come...
One of the biggest companies fanning the flames of this "battle" has been Fox News, who made a catchy slogan out of "War On Christmas" and has devoted a lot of airtime to rallying anger around that, but whose web site ironically offers "holiday ornaments" and not "Christmas ornaments".
I never really understood the controversy myself. As society grew up and anti-semitism and other anglocentricities fell out of fashion, our culture simply looked in the mirror and saw many different faces there, of many different faiths.
While it's interesting that so many religions have some significance tied to the time of the winter solstice, as long as that's the case it just seems friendly to include them in the seasonal good tidings.
If there was any sort of war with all this, excluding the other half of our people from sharing in the joy and goodwill of this season would seem more warlike than merely wishing them well. I've never found harm in wishing people well; it seems reflective of the Christian values I was raised with.
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