At work the other day there was a discussion on whether you should say, “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays”. Ugh. Christians here will never understand what it feels like to be in a religious minority. Apparently, it’s too much to ask them to be respectful of everyone.
I didn’t say anything. I know I should speak out more but I also really like my job and want to keep it.
Why are we still having this discussion? Your imaginary “War on Christmas” isn’t real. No one is telling you to stop celebrating Christmas; we are simply asking you to acknowledge that there are other holidays and that not everyone is Christian.
Anyway, it was slow at work today so I made another weird flower drawing:
Happy holidays if or however you celebrate!
In the 1945 movie Christmas in Connecticut, Bing Crosby sings the song “Happy Holidays”. Nobody had a problem with it. The problem is part of the made-up “War on Christmas” (Christmas now starts just after Labor Day and drags on until Valentine’s Day.)
Where I live on one of the Godless Coasts ™, I hear a variety of greetings. You can find people who get up all up in their feelings about enforcing Christmas on everyone, but most people are happy to just exist.
As for your picture; I really like the batik-patterned background with a flower superimposed.
Katydid @1: That was the 1942 film Holiday Inn.
@Rob, d’oh, you’re right. Too much non-stop Christmas propaganda, I guess. It’s all starting to blur together. But my main point was that “Happy Holidays” has been a seasonal greeting for nearly a century and it’s only been recently that it’s been railed against.
I’m Christian I’ve got Jewish , Hindu, atheist , Muslim and Buddhist relatives . It’s been happy holidays for me for decades . I still don’t see a problem with it🤷🏾♀️
I like to tell people, especially ones I don’t know (store clerk, mail carrier, etc.), “Have wonderful holidays!” Here in the US, how much time people get off from work for various named holidays is extremely variable–in my area, grocery stores are all open until at least late afternoon on Christmas Day, for example–means they’re celebrating whatever they want, with who they can, somewhere in the last weeks of December into some days at the beginning of January. But there are lots of ways of having wonderful holidays. For example, if a hard-working grocery store employee can go home after their shift on Christmas Day, having had mostly really pleasant, gracious customers, wouldn’t that be a wonderful experience? (I can at least wish for that, and do my part as a customer to be pleasant and gracious.)
Oh, and the flower drawing is interesting. Love the composition, and I can identify stream flow patterns in the white lines in the black center. The outflow of the streams is just left of the top of the center. 🙂