>>>>>Now...if our neighborhood police suddenly decrees I have to have a nativity scene in my front yard because it's a Christian neighborhood, I think most would agree that's a different story.
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>>>>>No surprise that we agree on this. As a matter of fact, during this season, I say "Merry Christmas" to the cashiers when I'm shopping (even though I am Jewish) just because I am so tired of "Happy Holidays" and all this PC crap <vbg>
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>>>>How is "Happy Holidays" any different than the "Season's Greetings" we grew up with? I've always heard both as including "Happy New Year."
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>>>>IAC, heard to argue that it's PC when "Season's Greetings" goes back at least 50 years.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Truthfully, I say them all very casually. I have two good friends who are Jewish and celebrate Hannukah, but also celebrate Christmas.
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>>>Unless I know for an absolute fact that someone doesn't celebrate Christmas, I say whatever comes to mind.
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>>>Maybe I should do what Eddie Murphy did in "Trading Places" - he disguised himself as an exchange student in one scene and shouted out, "Merry New Year" :)
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>>This isn't an issue I care very much about, except for the idiotic idea that there's "a war on Christmas" (other than the one created by so-called Christians who've made the holiday all about consumption).
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>>Tamar
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>Many years ago, one of Dad's fellow Air Force officers, who was a Rabbi, made the statement that it was a shame that we (Christians) allowed two of our highest Holy days to be subsumed by the advertisers and retailers into a carnival of spending.

Good point. Somehow, we've (Jews, that is) avoided that with our holiest days. You just don't run into a lot of Yom Kippur sales. The holiday that's become a "carnival of spending" is actually a minor holiday in the Jewish calendar. (In fact, it's a festival, not a holiday, that is, not a holy day.)

Tamar