Religious Holiday Greetings

To All My Progressive Liberal Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

To My Conservative Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Its just a Joke guys... no offense !!! happy holidays to all... Seriously....

I am a Democrat or Liberal as you call it, and this was funny. I like Merry Christmas if it is all the same to you. Made me laugh . Thanks!

Merry Christmas to you too.

2007-12-20 07:12:51 by Antiliber

Rabbi Cary Kozberg, Director of Religious Life at Wexner Heritage Village, reminds us what the Jewish high holidays teach us about social justice ...

To My PC Democrat Friends: 
 
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010 , but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wish. 
 

To My Non-PC Republican Friends: 

Merry Christmas

Ha that's great but sadly true

2009-12-22 04:52:04 by Lkn4trouble

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Over the weekend I worked for a friend of mine who runs a nice handmade items shop. Because the weekend after Thanksgiving is one of her busiest I worked for her on Sat. & Sun. by greeting her customers passing out Cocoa. I was to tell clients Merry Christmas or whatever to them when they came in. I had a couple that got offended. I asked them what their religious affiliation was and corrected to appease. But, when several of my Pagan and Wiccan friends came in I greeted them with Happy Yule and Candlemas. Some friends I knew were Athiests and greeted them with Happy Holidays or Merry festivus. But I got chewed out by one person that was offended by just the general holiday greetings, asked if he had a religious affiliation and apologized when he said NO very loudly. Then I told him have a wonderful day and enjoy the shop. As he and his wife left he said that it was very inconsiderate of me to say such things to people I did not know. I explained it to him like this...............
I can not tell what will and will not offend. I am Pagan and have tried to greet everyone on how they percieve this time of year whether they are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Pagan, Athiest, ect. I did not mean to offend you and I hope that you will not hold it against me or the store owner. I think he is just uptight or just mean by nature. He gave me a nasty look, raised his nose and walked out, but I couldn't help yelling "Merry Candlemas" to him. I wonder, if my religious beliefs are my own and I wish someone a holiday greeting based on my beliefs but someone gets upset because it is not of their religious beliefs but want us to say the greeting of their beliefs, who is in the wrong? Neither, right? Some people get upset just for the sake of the argument and a reason to make someone else unhappy because they are and that is why they argue over a holiday greeting. What is your take on this and how would you have handled it?
Blessed be (((((Hug)))))
sorry guys, when I wrote "Merry Candlemas" as a retort I meant to say " Merry Christmas" just to rub his nose in it a little. Sorry for the typo! LOL

Hi Poodle. some people are going to get upset no matter what we do. I never understood the complaints over greetings. I am not offended when someone says Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays or Seasons' greetings. The holidays are holidays and are seen and celebrated differently by different people.

As you know I am Wiccan, but I have nothing against Merry Christmas or Happy Yule. To me Yule is a holy day, but Christmas is just a national holiday with time off from work for most people.
BB

2007-11-26 05:45:50 by Karma of the Poodle

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I know there is a very important religious holiday for Muslims these days. I would like to know if it has already started (if it has, could you tell me exactly when) or it is just to start (and if it is, when). When I say start, I mean the moment you stop going to your office, school, etc. I would also appreciate if you could tell me the name of the holiday in Arabic and when I am supposed to send an e-mail with greetings (I hope I am not too late). Thank you.

The name of the holiday is Eid.

2006-12-24 20:06:53 by gina m

A friend of mine has decided to stop talking to me many months ago without provocation. I miss him immensely. I thought it was only courteous that I send him holiday greetings and good wishes, but he has not responded in kind (in the past, he would). The last e-mail I got from him before he stopped talking completely was a religious conspiracy e-mail he forwarded to several of his other friends. I want to fix this friendship, but he doesn't seem interested. Are some men that way (meaning it's no big deal for them to stop talking to friends without regards to their feelings)?

It is not just men that are this way, girls too. I used to have a friend, but after I moved away, keeping the friendship became harder and harder. I thought it was something about me that was the reason she was not returning my letters, untill I bumped into her mum, turns out she can''t be bothered.

Your friend may just find it too much bother to talk to you or return your emails, or cards. Bring this up, push him to put some effort into your relasionship. Unfortunatly, if he can#t be bothered, there is not much you can do.

2009-12-05 06:32:22 by The Quah