'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Holiday'

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Originally Posted by mrnoodle

We've allowed a small group of people to create the false impression that the Christian holiday is just one of many that are actively being celebrated, and that by paying attention to xmas, we are somehow offending practitioners of other faiths.

Suddenly extremists want to distort what was clearly a patriotic American invention. The expression that best honors religion from a patriotic American perspective is dated December 1791 - therefore "Happy Holidays". Any religious extremist who has a problem with that also has a problem with the definition of patriotic American.

This weekend is Christmas, Hanukah, and Kwanzaa. mrnoodel posts - as quoted - a direct insult at those other religions. He tells us that Kwanzaa and Hanukah do not really exist - and does so with insult. That means mrnoodle is a classic anti-American in the tradition of Nazism, McCarthyism, Spanish Inquisition, and the Ku Klux Klan. He even pissed on American troops. Why? Even US troops are multi-denominational.

The term "Happy Holidays" is uniquely American. Traceable to something never before seen in history - 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. The American government and its people would have no attachment to any one religion. Completely unheard of everywhere - yes everywhere - in the world. The American people would be of any religion that could exist and would honor all with religious freedom. This whole new concept would be attached to something we call a "patriotic American". A concept that has prospered whereever free people are permitted.

Happy Kwanzaa. Happy Hanukkah. Happy Ramadan. Or Happy Holidays. And mrnoodle - go back to the extremist anti-American nation you must have come from. Only an anti-American or a person of hate could have seriously posted that.

I heard Santa will be wrapping your lump of coal inside the Bill of Rights. Something about learning what made America great.