I was sitting around pondering a question on proper etiquette and, unable to reach a conclusion on my own, decided to pay a visit to DU because everyone in the known universe knows that if you absolutely, positively need to know something about etiquette you should visit DU…then usually do the complete opposite of what the DUers suggest. During my search I found the below:
Click here to visit Democrat UndergroundMon Dec 16, 2013, 02:30 PM
mfcorey1 (4,222 posts)
Etiquette
Christian audience........Merry Christmas
Mixed religion audience.....Season's Greetings
What is the big freaking deal?
Uh oh! You just know this isn’t going to end well, but first a fairly reasonable post by Nye.
Response to mfcorey1 (Original post)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:31 PM
Nye Bevan (13,688 posts)
1. No big deal at all, and either is fine, whatever the audience (nt)
And now the stupid.
Response to Nye Bevan (Reply #1)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:37 PM
HERVEPA (3,021 posts)
2. Disagree.
Christmas is allegedly about the birth of Christ. (Wrong month, if he did exist, but who's counting).
I don't need Christmas shoved down my throat.
Now I would think that DUmmies, at least the male variety, are every experienced having things shoved down their throats so I don’t know why one more thing would be such a big deal.
I do like how it says “Christmas is
ALLEGEDLY about the birth of Christ.†The entire reason they have this discussion every year is because the term “Merry Christmas†has “Christ†in it. I wonder if this DUmmie thinks the MLK Day is ALLEGEDLY about MLK?
Then another surprisingly reasonable post by Nye.
Response to HERVEPA (Reply #2)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:45 PM
Nye Bevan (13,688 posts)
4. If you see a cheery greeting as "Christmas being shoved down your throat",
then you are the one with the problem, not the person saying the greeting.
Good grief indeed.
Then some more stupid.
Response to Nye Bevan (Reply #4)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:50 PM
HERVEPA (3,021 posts)
5. You have every right to your incorrect opinion.
You are the problen in your lack of sensitivity.
By the way, you are supposed to say that my beliefs, not I, are the problem.
Hate to break it to you, hervepa, but you’re the problem. By the way, as it's Christmas I’ll wave my normal fictional spirit-guide fee to tell you.
Then a few (very few) back and tos with DUmmies being reasonable, and then I get to the reason I brought this over…
Response to mfcorey1 (Original post)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 03:08 PM
haele (5,637 posts)
11. The problem is not what the person says to me, it's the response I get in return.
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I say "Season's Greetings" or Happy Holidays" as a greeting on principle. I'm not Christian. I'm an accepting animist through traditional upbringing and by choice.
However, there are people who go out of their way to correct me with "You mean 'Merry Christmas'" - the implication is that if I prefer not to say Merry Christmas, I'm an evil commie athiest who would eat their children if I had the chance. And they aren't cheery at all when there are times they spit that out at the cash register or walking past me on the sidewalk.
It doesn't happen often, but I've gotten at least two of those reactions from the mega-church attendees a year since I started paying attention to that sort of thing in 2004.
It's the "War on Christmas" defense that ratchets the pissyness up, not people who prefer to not to give lip-service to the religious wacka-doodles who think their God granted them the only "Truth, Justice, and American Way".
Haele
An accepting animist? I had to look that one up because even fictional spirit-guides do not know everything, and who knows what a word can mean at DU.
According to the dictionary animism means: the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
Now, let me make clear that I’m a live and let live type of fictional spirit-guide. If you want to think that when you mashed those potatoes they went to Shangri-La instead of your stomach that’s your prerogative; however, if you do think your taters went to Shangri-La maybe you should refrain from calling others religious wacka-doodles.
And Haele, if you’re lurking, I don’t think that if you prefer not to say Merry Christmas that you’re an evil commie atheist who would eat someone’s children if you had the chance, BUT since you post at DU it does give people the idea that you’re probably an evil commie atheist would cheer someone murdering their unborn children if you had a chance.
