Christmas

[Rue]

I think its just because many other cultures have their own celebrations around the same time as christmas. On the other hand some people I know who are muslim or hindu or jew do acknowedge that it is christmas for us and are thoughtful enough to wish others "Merry Christmas". I try to do likewise, by learning when their major holidays are.

Merry Christmas Sir B.*

*as expressed by the Zionist Imperialist Hollywood movie producer banking czar money lenderer illuminati member Rue of the Hebrew Cynic Peoples Collective of 1

p.s.s. I do not speak on behalf of any other Jewish frauds just myself

[capricorn]

I wish everyone on MLW a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[Mr.Canada]

I wish everyone on MLW a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Likewise. I wish everyone here and theres a Merry Christmas.

Sure we fight a lot here but it's just the free flow of ideas unscripted, family is what's important at the end of the day.

[Oleg Bach]

Merry Christmas and hope and joy to all - as for the "happy holiday" crowd - tad cowardly are we not? Christmas can never be offensive - what could be offensive about LOVE? It will be the best Christmas ever.

[WIP]

I love Christmas. It seems to bring out the friendliness in most people.

The shopping malls must be friendlier places than here in Ontario.

[Oleg Bach]

Everybody - I mean everybody I meet, no matter what back groung just LOVES Christmas - no one is offended if merryment and love are sent - seems the ones that don't like it are just unhappy about life in general - but even those are nuts to be cracked - wish everyone well - good will to all - Thanks guys - love to ALL.....Joy to the world the King has just entered the building -----wow - this is a new begining!

[WIP]

A Christmas tree is a pagan symbol. It really has nothing to do with Christmas and so calling it a Holiday tree is perfectly acceptable.

I wanted to take a little time to think over this "war on Christmas" stuff, but when it's all said and done I come away with the same feeling that words like holiday tree, happy holidays are generic, sterile terms -- equivalent to other neutral terminology we've created around trying to avoid nouns ending with "man." Sometimes an adequate substitute can be found, but when I first heard the CBC News referring to "fishers" a few years back, I wasn't sure what the hell they were talking about till I saw the video clip with the guys hauling in their nets.

In time, happy holidays and holiday tree may start to sound more appropriate, but for now, I'd rather recognize Christmas as our winter solstice festival. So it makes no difference if the Christmas tree is a pagan symbol taken from Germanic mythology, 99% of Christmas is a secular winter solstice festival -- that's why the Puritans banned celebrating Christmas for several centuries.

If there are Jews, Hindus and especially Muslims who object to the term Christmas, it's likely the fundamentalists who take the same rigid approach to their religions' festival of lights celebrations as fundamentalist Christians do, who believe that Jesus was born on Dec. 25th. I don't know about Muslims, but I know a few Hindus and Sikhs who put up Christmas lights, a tree, and hand out presents for the kids on Christmas day; they view Christmas in much the same way as I do -- as a secular holiday to get away from work and the usual hectic pace, to enjoy some quiet time with family.

BTW mythologists attribute the various winter solstice festivals around the world to having their origins with agrarian societies who closely tracked the Sun's movements, and obviously started feeling uneasy in the Fall when the days were getting shorter, so they felt that the return of the Sun had to have some special commemoration; so what about here in North America? Didn't some of the agrarian tribes like the Iroquois, have some sort of winter solstice celebration?

[Peter F]

Seasons Greetings to all!