This whole “war on Christmas” is the most ridiculous thing ever. I’m a non-practicing Jew, yet I’m not the least bit offended when someone says “Merry Christmas”. I’m also not the least bit offended by Christmas decorations, even if they are religious in nature. In fact I put up (non-religious) Christmas decorations myself to keep in spirit with the rest of my neighbors who go overboard (also with non-religious decorations). Does it REALLY make any difference whether someone says “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays”?
As a Christian environmentalist, I have issues with excessive ornamental lights wasting foreign oil, trees that are grown for a month of decay indoors, and wrapping paper that covers some gift manufactured in China.
Some have called me Scrooge, but this is just my gift to our Earth, who gives so bountifully to us.
Wow Jeremiah, I’m impressed. I never knew you cared about that stuff.
I wrap my gifts in the Sunday funnies as often as I can, avoiding commercial wrapping paper as much as possible. And I agree that, although they are pretty and fun, the Christmas lights are a major waste of oil.
I thank Alan Hankin, the world’s most amazing athiest, and Ishmael, one of the world’s most amazing books for helping me to understand how humans are special animals, but only special in that we have more responsibility to work with nature in helping our species, not a God or evolutionary granted right to consume everything.
This whole “war on Christmas” is the most ridiculous thing ever. I’m a non-practicing Jew, yet I’m not the least bit offended when someone says “Merry Christmas”. I’m also not the least bit offended by Christmas decorations, even if they are religious in nature. In fact I put up (non-religious) Christmas decorations myself to keep in spirit with the rest of my neighbors who go overboard (also with non-religious decorations). Does it REALLY make any difference whether someone says “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays”?
As a Christian environmentalist, I have issues with excessive ornamental lights wasting foreign oil, trees that are grown for a month of decay indoors, and wrapping paper that covers some gift manufactured in China.
Some have called me Scrooge, but this is just my gift to our Earth, who gives so bountifully to us.
Wow Jeremiah, I’m impressed. I never knew you cared about that stuff.
I wrap my gifts in the Sunday funnies as often as I can, avoiding commercial wrapping paper as much as possible. And I agree that, although they are pretty and fun, the Christmas lights are a major waste of oil.
By the way, you’d probably get a kick out of THIS!
I thank Alan Hankin, the world’s most amazing athiest, and Ishmael, one of the world’s most amazing books for helping me to understand how humans are special animals, but only special in that we have more responsibility to work with nature in helping our species, not a God or evolutionary granted right to consume everything.
Agreed. Few things piss me off more than the attitude of “human entitlement”…