Memes

Hopefully you're young enough that you didn't have to deal with the christmas cd on repeat

I currently work in retail and OH MY GODS I FELT THE

T R I U M P H

THROUGH MY PHONE.

Wish them a joyous Yuletide. A cheerful solstice. A felicitous December.

No you don't understand, if I can't force everyone to be exactly like me that means I'm being oppressed!

Yeah, I say Happy Holidays to someone I know who obviously doesn't celebrate Christmas.

Also, it is weird for conservative Americans to be offended not greeting "Happy Christmas", when the migrant ancestors of modern Americans did not celebrate it as a holiday until more recently. Protestants thought celebrating Christmas is a Catholic abomination. Look how tables have turned and acting hypocritical as always...

Or telling someone “happy birthday “ when they’re in a group of people who aren’t having birthdays themselves. Only a three year old would get upset that they’re not included.

Maybe it's different in the US and other cultures, but as an atheist I've never seen the phrase as a very religious thing. I say "merry Christmas" and "happy holidays" indistinctly and I've never seen anyone offended by the use of either, independtly of their faith (or lack thereof).

I say "merry Christmas" on the actual Christmas day though.

I always like the "Put Saturn back in Saturday" retort

First time I've heard someone upset over calling it "winter break." People are wild

That's honestly refreshing to hear that your friends department encouraged them to celebrate multiple different religious holidays. There shouldn't be any problem celebrating religious holidays as long as they are all given equal considerations and the company doesnt play favorites.

Happy Hondadays.

Prison. Immediately.

Obviously the Menorah.

It is made of metal unlike the card and the cup, and it does extra fire damage.

Can't I just wield an entire holiday tree? That's what my biofamily hate most.

I think that is is important to note that there is very little real evidence for Christmas being taken from saturnalia. You can google christmas and saturnalia and come up with plenty of web articles, but looking at the actual history of it makes it pretty clear. Christmas takes place around the same time of saturnalia, sure, but that does not make it a Christian stab at replacing it. Saturnalia was traditionally observed between the 17th and 23rd of December, not the 25th. It was a 5-7 day festival, not a one day festival. Additionally, the church is said to have gotten the 25th by taking the day John's father was told he would have a son (shortly after the day of attonement), the new testiment statement that Elizabeth was 6 months pregnant when Jesus was conceived, and adding 40 weeks to the end for the average pregnancy. This would put Jesus born in late December. This general time line was documented as being calculated as early as CE 200s.

The man on the TV said people would get angry at me for saying merry Christmas - the guy in the $6,000 suit - COME ON

Blasphemy, we celebrate Hondadays in this houshold!!!!

Merry Crisis!

They only support fascism-lite because it's the next step on the way to pure-fascism.