Comments on: Season’s greetings — no offense http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:02:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Joel Haas http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6554 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:22:32 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6554 "Only a fool works hard to turn a non-issue into an issue. " Problem is, there is not a shortage of fools these days--if there ever were. “Only a fool works hard to turn a non-issue into an issue. ”
Problem is, there is not a shortage of fools these days–if there ever were.

]]> by: Sheila http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6552 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:11:01 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6552 "Here’s a word of advice to both sides of the divide: Ease up. Only a fool works hard to turn a non-issue into an issue." Tell that to Bill O'Reilly. “Here’s a word of advice to both sides of the divide: Ease up. Only a fool works hard to turn a non-issue into an issue.”

Tell that to Bill O’Reilly.

]]> by: 773H HO http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6543 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:07:21 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6543 How many Douglas Fir trees were there in Bethlehem anyway? How many Douglas Fir trees were there in Bethlehem anyway?

]]> by: RLR http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6540 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:34:00 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6540 Considering that both Christmas and Easter are syncretic holidays co-opted from pre-Christian traditions, these appeals to "Christian underpinnings" are nearly as amusing as the efforts to eliminate Christian overtones from Yule. Whose former Christmases were "somber religious occasions?" The Puritans in England and the early American colonies despised Christmas as Catholic idolatry, and Christmas was outlawed in Boston until 1681. Considering that both Christmas and Easter are syncretic holidays co-opted from pre-Christian traditions, these appeals to “Christian underpinnings” are nearly as amusing as the efforts to eliminate Christian overtones from Yule.

Whose former Christmases were “somber religious occasions?” The Puritans in England and the early American colonies despised Christmas as Catholic idolatry, and Christmas was outlawed in Boston until 1681.

]]> by: BP http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6537 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:09:06 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/12/15/seasons-greetings-no-offense-meant/#comment-6537 I have to agree with you on the 'ease up' advice. As a Muslim I am not bothered by trees and wreaths, or menorahs. But then, I was raised as an Episcopalian. I am vastly amused at the 'war on Christmas' folks who want to boycott those that refuse to put Merry Christmas on their store's advertising. A sure sign Christmas has become too commercialized when someone believes the commercial part of the holiday is too p.c. I have to agree with you on the ‘ease up’ advice. As a Muslim I am not bothered by trees and wreaths, or menorahs. But then, I was raised as an Episcopalian. I am vastly amused at the ‘war on Christmas’ folks who want to boycott those that refuse to put Merry Christmas on their store’s advertising. A sure sign Christmas has become too commercialized when someone believes the commercial part of the holiday is too p.c.

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