Sorry, no way in hell am I saying Happy HOLIDAYS —ever.
Good post but I disagree strongly with a lot of this.
Oh, SCREW X-mas, too. I’ll never write that outside of a criticism.
This Christian doesn’t believe the first seven.
I/\’ve heard the “chi” thing before. Certainly everyone using X is remembering their ancient Roman language lessons from grade school. I didn’t know there was a Roman language or alphabet. The Romans spoke Latin and Greek. Jesus would have spoken mostly in Hebrew and Aramaic, possibly with some Greek also.
Happy Holidays is just liberal, non-theistic pap aimed at delegitimizing the real reason for Christmas, commemorating the birth of Christ.
As a kid, I would hear people say “Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,” and I thought it was to include Hanukkah for anyone who might be Jewish when you did not know for sure.
Just to be clear..when I call barry or hillz a dumb ass I’m not being disrespectful to donkeys.
Happy Holidays has been around since the 19th century
http://www.hburgjeremy.com/2011/12/history-of-happy-holidays.html
“Happy holidays” is designed to evade “Merry Christmas”
It all got started with the song writing genius Irving Berlin, an immigrant Russian Jew, who wrote “Happy Holidays” in 1942 to secularize Christmas, just like he wrote “Easter Parade” to secularize Easter.
That was reported on a PBS documentary on Jewish Broadway writers.
Fake news.
While a lot of this stuff is in secular Christmas celebrations and some is in carols, I don’t know very many practicing Christians who don’t know the Scriptural account and who havent separated the wheat from the chaff as far as the actual recorded timeline.
Do a lot of people believe this stuff? Yes, but not actual PRACTICING Christians.
Is the Christian Post going to address whether Mary had a service dog and, if so, for how long she had it?
I have been studying the Word since age five; I knew all nine. I am not entirely alone in that.
Happy Holidays (plural) has a different connotation than Merry Christmas (singular), by intention. It is an insidious generic substitution.
Dennis the Little had to work with Roman Numerals, and no Zero. He was brilliant, but her erred.
He was actually calculating the birth of Christ in order to then produce the Church calendar for Easter, which the medieval Church considered far more important: the Death and Resurrection were the (literal) crux of Christianity.
There is also nothing about a donkey in the account of the flight into Egypt...but Giotto has Mary riding on a donkey in his fresco.
