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Default I'm sick of this crap - 12-09-2005, 12:47 PM

So, I go to the post office today to mail some orders. Anyway, I see a poster on the wall advertising some special seasonal stamps. Among the stamps, I see stamps for:


[img]http://shop.usps.com/images/04_hanukkah37_d.jpg[/img]
Hanukkah

[img]http://shop.usps.com/images/04_kwanzaa37_d.jpg[/img]
Kwanzaa

[img]http://shop.usps.com/images/02_eid37_d.jpg[/img]
EID (which I'm guessing is some sort of Islamic Holiday)

... and then I noticed these stamps....

[img]http://shop.usps.com/images/05_cookies37_d.jpg[/img]
which were called "HOLIDAY Cookies"

So, I get up to the window and I ask, "Where are the 'Christmas' stamps?" I was told "Oh, we can't have anything that references "Christmas" - but we do have "Holiday" stamps. So, I then say, "well, you have stamps for Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and EID." The lady says "I know, but I guess "Christmas" is different.

Now, I know that this is becoming kind of a hotbed issue lately. At area schools, they have a "giving tree" (not a "Christmas" tree), although they have a "Menorah", and a "Kwanzaa Tree" prominently displayed. But, this was the first time I personally have really been flat-out pissed off by it.

I don't like to express my religious beliefs on here because it's kind of a personal issue. However, I DO respect other peoples religious beliefs, and feel that EVERYONE should be allowed to express themselves. I have seen over the last 5-10 years the increasing attacks on Christianity - and everything it stands for. The holiday on December 25th, is called "Christmas". It is not "Holiday". It is not "Winter Day". It is called "Christmas". If you look on ANY Calendar that is the name of it. Yet, in the name of political correctness - we are not able to recognize the actual name of the holiday - out of fear of offending someone. I personally think that's a crock of bullshit.

So, next year, I am personally going to make a point to NOT do any business with any companies that sell "Hanaukkah, Kwanzaa" or any other "Religious Holiday" products - but do not sell "Christmas" products. Places like K-Mart, Target, and Sears are removing the word "Christmas" from their advertisements - but offer dozens of items for these other holidays. I listened on the radio recently about how Home Depot had decided not to carry "Christmas Trees", but "Holiday Trees" this year. I guess that so many customers and employee's complained - they changed their mind.

You don't have to be a Christian to understand the importance of Christmas - and to respect what it stands for. I hope that ALL Americans and people across the world can learn to stand up for the idea that first they take away the word "Christmas" - and next it may be Kwanzaa, or Hanaukkah, or even holidays like The Fourth of July, or Memorial Day. We ALL need to start standing up for the errosion of our cultures - and start letting our voices be heard. I say "Bring Back CHRISTMAS"!

I predict that in three years we'll be saying "Allahu Akbar!" instead of "Merry Christmas!"

I'm getting so sick of everything, I'm going to move to Montana in a few years, where only 12 people live, so I won't have to encounter any more bullshit like this.
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 12:54 PM

if you complain about the word christmas, you need to get a life.
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 01:00 PM

There was a place down in England that banned Christmas and replaced it with "Winterval".


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I don't like to express my religious beliefs on here because it's kind of a personal issue. However, I DO respect other peoples religious beliefs, and feel that EVERYONE should be allowed to express themselves. I have seen over the last 5-10 years the increasing attacks on Christianity - and everything it stands for. The holiday on December 25th, is called "Christmas". It is not "Holiday". It is not "Winter Day". It is called "Christmas". If you look on ANY Calendar that is the name of it. Yet, in the name of political correctness - we are not able to recognize the actual name of the holiday - out of fear of offending someone. I personally think that's a crock of bullshit.[/quote:3d26a]

I agree with you on all of the above. Whenever you see someone on TV trying to justify this kind of thing, they tend to be white liberal bed-wetting fannyheads. Anyway, I seem to remember that there was a pagan holiday on the 25th of December, so I'm guessing the Christians hijacked it.
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 01:07 PM

im not a christian but i like christmas and jesus is a cool dude.


  
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Default 12-09-2005, 01:07 PM

what I thought was funny is someone named Chronic Diarrhea is "sick of this shit"
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 01:17 PM

I couldn't agree more, political correctness is a huge problem in our country, generated by whiney faggots who exist because parents won't teach their kids to put up with stuff anymore.
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 01:17 PM

Christmas no longer exsist, therefore there is nothing wrong with it being removed from advertising. Hell all "christmas" is, is advertising. It has little to no connection to the reason of its establishment any longer. Not to mention that more and more people are of "no faith" IE are not practicing a religion. If your not a christian then why the fuck are you celebrating a christian holiday, fuck i misewell start celebrating kwanzaa. I dont even know what the fuck that is. The reason you are seeing the removal of "christmas" is that it is no longer the holiday it once was, its mutated into a commercial sell-a-thon and therefore needed to be renamed.

And with this post i'll bring back, for the third year, my grinch sig.
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 01:21 PM

that's true, I didn't understand why people of no faith or other faiths get off for school for Christmas, like Christians don't get off for Rosh Hashannah...then I realized that Christmas was no longer "Christ"mas but "Buy-and-sell-and-be-materialistic"mas
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 01:31 PM

If someone comes over to my house and comments on how nice my "holiday tree" is, I'm gonna punch them in the throat.


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Default 12-09-2005, 01:48 PM

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If someone comes over to my house and comments on how nice my "holiday tree" is, I'm gonna punch them in the throat.
[quote="Sgt>Stackem":84625]what I thought was funny is someone named Chronic Diarrhea is "sick of this shit" [/quote:84625]

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I agree, political correctness has gone too far.
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 01:59 PM

I work with an Israeli, who got off 4 days shortly before thanksgiving for her religious holiday(s). then she got our thanksgiving break, now she will get christmas oh fuck i mean winter break off.

the double standard is absolute horseshit. they should have to work for my religious holiday. its wishful thinking, but when you do stop and think about it, that shit is really unfair cuss:
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 02:15 PM

It was Yule first.

Give it back to the pagans.


  
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Default 12-09-2005, 02:51 PM

I'll be the first one to wish a jewish person a Happy Hannukah (or Channukah or however it's spelled). If they won't wish me a Merry Christmas, they're a fucking asshole, in my book.

I'm all for religious freedom and celebration, but don't you dare eliminate Christian holidays and traditions. That's not the way it works.


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Default 12-09-2005, 03:13 PM

Political correctness in America is a reason I'd like to live in Canada. How is it there, by the way? cool:
  
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Default 12-09-2005, 03:17 PM

There is a simple way to get rid of all this....

Nuke religion.



Make it National Take-off-of-work-and-school-to-be-with-family-and-friends-and-have-a-nice-dinner-and-open-presents-and-shit Day


  
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