They can't say merry Christmas

[trickey]

Recently a person where i live got offended when a employee at a grocery store wished him "merry Christmas". The man doesn't celebrate Christmas. Now the store has a rule that emplyees must say "happy Holidays" instead of "merry Christmas".

Do you guys think that is right?

[Bereta_Eder]

no.

merry christmas and if you dont like it go **** yourself

[Bereta_Eder]

then again the customer is always right

[Rasbelin]

Just some hardline anti-Christmas person. I like to hear "Merry Christmas" when shopping and that's also what I usually say before Christmas to the janitor while shopping before Christmas. Well, I wouldn't impose any such stupid rule that you cannot say "Merry Christmas."

[monolith94]

I don't know if it's 'right' or not,, but it's certainly not wrong…
Happy Holidays certainly has a more inclusive tone than merry christmas, and isn't that what love and religion and all those happy things are supposed to be about, anyway? Inclusion?

[Bereta_Eder]

it's good to live in a country where 98% of the people share your religion.


that way you can say merry christmas and have a 98% of not offending anyone


merry christmas you bastard, what wrong with that?

[aahz_capone]

I think the guy who got offended should take a chill pill and shut the hell up. it's all in good faith and if some dude from the other side of the world said to me "have a happy gufxerlakrfopiz, or whatever, I'd say thank you. Was this actually in Canada? jesus, some people. That the shop starts taking that a$$hole's offence serioulsy shows how scared people are of not being pc enough.

[aahz_capone]

hey, and what happens if I don't have any holidays because I work in the hospital or something? Does every shop have to know that about me? I think I'll just dump on everyone who does have holidays and expresses it, yeah that would be fun...

[Stefu]

I heard there is no Christmas
In the silly Middle East
No trees, no snow, no Santa Claus
They have different religious beliefs

They believe in Muhammad
And not in our holiday
And so every December
I go to the Middle East and say...

"Hey there Mr. Muslim
Merry ****ing Christmas
Put down that book the Koran
And hear some holiday wishes.

In case you haven't noticed
It's Jesus's birthday.
So get off your heathen Muslim ass
and ****ing celebrate.

There is no holiday season in India I've heard
They don't hang up their stockings
And that is just absurd!

They've never read a Christmas story.
They don't know what Rudolph is about
And that is why in December
I'll go to India and shout...

Hey there Mr. Hinduist
Merry ****ing Christmas
Drink eggnog and eat some beef
And pass it to the missus.

In case you haven't noticed
It's Jesus's birthday
So get off your heathen Hindu ass
and ****ing celebrate!

Now I heard that in Japan
Everyone just lives in sin
They pray to several gods
And put needles in their skin.

On December 25th
All they do is eat a cake
And that is why I go to Japan
And walk around and say...

Hey there Mr. Shintoist
Merry ****ing Christmas
God is going to kick your ass
You infidelic pagan scum.

In case you haven't noticed
There's festive things to do
So lets all rejoice for Jesus
And Merry ****ing Christmas to you.

On Christmas day I travel `round the world and say,
Taoists, Krishnas, Buddhists, and all you atheists too,
Merry ****ing Christmas, To You!

[Bereta_Eder]

Well I've said merry christmas to plenty of non christians ad non stuck up asses atheist christians (yes) and that was ok and pleasant because it is a good wish not a holy inquisition procedure.

it's like that in the real world.

[Bereta_Eder]

I didn't know they were not "christians" BTW or I had temporarily forgot.

For example: there was a group of people mainly from Europe and America. I asked an aquintance if he was going home for Chstimas completely forgeting at that time that he was from Turkey.

He smiled, I understood my mistake and his reply was: that's ok we have something equivalant and it is also holidays season in Turkey.

So saying merry Christmas enriches your encyclopedic knowledge so there.

[Starchild]

Odd how "Merry Christmas" offends enough to complain, yet my own "Enjoy the Birthing of Your Messiah" just gets odd looks.

[Asher]

GAP stores here are only allowed to say "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" instead.

Doesn't bother me...

Very diverse city we live in, no need to assume everyone's Christian.

[aahz_capone]

er... athiest christians? can you run that by me again?

[Caligastia]

If someone says "Happy Hannukah" or something, I would not be offended, I would wish them a happy hannukah back. So why do PC *******s get offended with "Merry Christmas"? I guess they must hate anything to do with christianity.