Holida cards or Christmas Cards

[hardcorecubfan]

Ok, let's keep it simple, and it is hard for me not to start ranting

 

Is it the "Holidays cards" you will be sending out or is it "Christmas cards"

 

 

Not to influence this poll but GW is sending Holiday cards out.

[goonys evil twin]

I'd send out Christmas cards to people I know celebrate Christmas and holiday cards to the others.

[Andy]

I'd send out Christmas cards to everyone I know, because everyone I know (well enough to send a card, anyway) celebrates Christmas.

[Omar]

Didnt many people get pissed because Bush sent out cards saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" ?

[cjbucks]

I kind of thought the phrases were somewhat interchangeable until this year and now people are calling it an attack on Christmas to use the word holiday. I think there are alot bigger problems in the world.

[treebird]

I'd send out Christmas cards to people I know celebrate Christmas and holiday cards to the others.

[ConstableRabbit]

I don't have a problem with Happy Holidays, but there is a recent trend to stay away from saying Merry Christmas.

 

Many don't understand that Christmas is an official national holiday... just like Martin Luther King Jr Day.

 

From a secular standpoint:

Just as we celebrate King's birthday because he was a worthy and influential historical figure, celebrating the birthday of Jesus of Nazareth is somehow inappropriate? Did Jesus' teachings have no influence on our nation's history? We separate church and state, but to say that they have not would be foolish, imo.

[Careless]

I'd send out Christmas cards to people I know celebrate Christmas and holiday cards to the others.

If I sent cards, that's what I'd be doing

[Careless]

I kind of thought the phrases were somewhat interchangeable until this year and now people are calling it an attack on Christmas to use the word holiday. I think there are alot bigger problems in the world.

Most people can pay attention to more than one thing at a time

[MPrior]

This could be because I'm not a religious person, or it could just be because I'm not crazy, but I honestly don't give a rat's heiny (yes, heiny). Christmas was originally a pagan holiday anyway, and a lot of people who celebrate it (even Christians) don't really treat it like a religious holiday. So my feeling is, if you're in a position of power and doing mass mailings (a la GWB), "Happy Holidays" is the way to go, just because many of the people who he's sending it to may not celebrate Christmas. And in my mind, the "I don't celebrate Christmas, and you should be respectful of my beliefs/holiday/whatever" is a far more legitimate gripe than the "Saying 'happy holidays' takes away from Christmas" one, which is complete BS. If you're just writing personal cards, whatever you and the people you're sending them to feel is appropriate is fine.

[Derwood]

no option for Festivus Cards?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I just voted then realized I haven't sent out a single card in nearly a decade. :oops:

[hardcorecubfan]

no option for Festivus Cards?

 

Nope, those are only sent out when the cubs are in first at the end of the season. so it is kind of like christmas card once a year or in our case once a century

[hardcorecubfan]

Didnt many people get pissed because Bush sent out cards saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" ?

 

I hope that didn't affect how you voted?

[biittner77]

I'm 37 and have heard people say Happy Holidays and Season's Greeting ever since I can remember. Why do people suddenly care?

 

Speaking of other holidays, one of my students last year is related to the guy that invented Kwanza.

[stitchface]

Who frickin' cares? Can you imagine Christ worrying about something like this?

[Marco4]

If I sent cards, I'd choose blank and put in a message myself, wishing people something personal.

[Roast]

I kind of thought the phrases were somewhat interchangeable until this year and now people are calling it an attack on Christmas to use the word holiday. I think there are alot bigger problems in the world.

[sethuel1]

I send out "Happy Birthday to Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, and if you don't believe in him you're going straight to hell, preferably in the next 5 minutes" cards.

 

At random.

[CubinNY]

Wow, I am the only holiday card person.

 

I actually don't send out any cards, because I love trees.

 

To me this is the holiday season, Festuvis, Christmass, New Year's Eve, and New Year's day.

 

More than one therefore the term Holiday.

[goonys evil twin]

Wow, I am the only holiday card person.

 

I actually don't send out any cards, because I love trees.

 

To me this is the holiday season, Festuvis, Christmass, New Year's Eve, and New Year's day.

 

More than one therefore the term Holiday.

 

That's what happy holidays always meant (add in Thanksgiving), until the extreme religious right got on the "war on XMas" bandwagon. The word holiday is going to be as dirty as liberal in a few years. Probably has something to do with those dirty euros using it instead of vacation.

 

I know people who went years not thinking bad about the term "happy holidays", who now rally around the whole convoluted mess. If you want to be truthful about it, you shouldn't say Merry Christmas unless it is actually Christmas Day or maybe Christmas Eve. Saying Merry Christmas on December 2nd kind of makes you look silly since it's not Christmas. Do you say Happy Easter on Ash Wednesday?

[BigbadB]

If you want to be truthful about it, you shouldn't say Merry Christmas unless it is actually Christmas Day or maybe Christmas Eve. Saying Merry Christmas on December 2nd kind of makes you look silly since it's not Christmas. Do you say Happy Easter on Ash Wednesday?

 

=D> Well played!

[Derwood]

. Do you say Happy Easter on Ash Wednesday?

 

No, but I say "Merry Ash Wednesday" on Secretary Day.