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Ericka Kammerer · December 5th 05, 06:20 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.needlework

wrote:
Just out of curiosity -- I really wondered what everyone thinks about
all the "Happy Holiday" songs and etc? I saw some schoolchildren on tv
the other night singing what SHOULD have been "We wish you a Merry
Christmas" ... but now it's all "We wish you Happy Holidays". And then
Saturday Night Live did a spoof on the whole thing too. Frankly, I'm
apalled. Have people forgotten Christmas is the celebration of the
birth of Christ? Or is it all now just a reason to give presents? Oh
and my step-daughter came to visit from college this weekend, and
she's upset that history books no longer can print A.D. or B.C. -- now
it all has to be CE or BCE (common era and before common era). Sorry,
I'll shut up now. Except to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I think it makes perfect sense. Not everyone is
Christian. Why should those who are not Christian be
any more inundated with ALL CHRISTMAS ALL THE TIME!!!
than they already are? Why should those who are not
Christian have to sing Christian songs at school? Why
should scholars have to date everything relative to
the birth of Christ, regardless of whether their readers
or the scholars themselves are Christian?

Best wishes,
Ericka