Anonymous #1 4d

ohhh wait i get it. someone mentioned that to me once. “why don’t you just say merry christmas?”

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Anonymous #1 4d

Some get mad about saying Happy Holidays rather than marry Christmas😂 At least I’ve seen it a numerous times on social media

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Anonymous OP 4d

As a teacher I make small holiday gifts for all my students every year and ive had to change how i do them bc some parents cant handle their child getting a gift that says happy holidays instead of merry christmas 💀 god forbid i keep my classroom inclusive ig, its more common than people realize

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Anonymous #2 4d

Yeah. For me I say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. It’s a balance

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Anonymous OP 4d

This is what i do now, or if we have room for an extra fun day ill ask what everyone celebrates and make more curated activities and cards but sometimes there really just isnt time to be as personal as id like

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Anonymous #3 4d

Yeah. It’s like how many people go around saying Happy Hanukkah? I haven’t ever heard one person say it in my experience. If someone can say Merry Christmas then someone can say Happy Hanukkah. As long as something does infringe on you or the holiday isn’t hateful/violent then you have no right to tell them what they can’t celebrate.

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Anonymous #5 4d

That’s where I’m at and why I say it😂

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Anonymous #6 4d

Ive never had anyone argue about it that wasnt christian tbh, its def not all (and im christian catholic myself) but ill be the first to say we're the typical suspects

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Anonymous #6 4d

Because I’m Christian and I’ve seen way to many TikTok’s of people, specifically Christians, getting annoyed at happy holidays😂

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Anonymous #2 4d

I’m a Christian as well and unfortunately you are right

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Anonymous #2 4d

Yes it’s not all but I’ve only ever seen Christian complain about it so far.

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Anonymous OP 4d

Some people just forget the good will part of it and that’s why it’s a problem bc it’s just titles and formalities for some

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Anonymous #12 3d

I mean I feel that but for Easter as a Christian We don’t 100% know the date but at least Christmas is consistent. With Easter I get so annoyed with the switching of the dates because it’s like are we just randomly guessing here?😂

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Anonymous OP 3d

trueeee trueee, i feel like dates r rubbish in themselves as they just give us years and we have to fit it in a timeline and when humans already have a pattern, and oh shoot one thing is wrong, change a date, no one wanna leave the pattern they are in

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Anonymous #12 3d

I think someone blocked me but I was going to say to them that A holiday being a set Sunday every month is the definition of random. Both Easter and Christmas are to mark a special event in Christianity. Why do we keep the 25th for Christmas but not a specific date for Easter😂 Again both are supposed to be dates when something happened…..yet we change the date😂

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Anonymous OP 3d

ahhh, blocking someone over a discussion is wild; but hm, i c ur point. i’m tbh not christian, im muslim, but im very educated in both, or at least id like to think so? i’ve read the Bible and Quran

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Anonymous #12 3d

Yeah. I’m fairly new to Christianity but it’s things like these that confuse me😂 To me you would want the true date. Not a date that changes every year😂. That’s why I like Christmas because its a “Oh it’s on the 25th” and I know that every year 100% guaranteed Rather than a oh I don’t know what specific date Easter will be on in 10 years. I know it’ll be on a Sunday though.💀

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Anonymous #12 3d

That’s cool though! I’ve wanted to try and read some other religions just to check them out but haven’t gotten to it yet!

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Anonymous OP 3d

in all honesty, i think moving dates make more sense to me. as calendars now don’t reflect how they were when the books were created. when you have a date that’s set on the number of the sunday, it makes more sense because the moon changes the days. for instance, in islam, we have a whole separate calendar, and we don’t go by the american. that’s why i brought up the other calendars. the reason christmas is a set date is because the went 9 months after the conception of jesus christ, as if a….

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Anonymous #12 3d

when they die, they are conceived. in the roman calendar it says that he was conceived march 25th. so december 25th is a fixed date as prophets are perfect and so it’s 9 months no more no less

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Anonymous OP 3d

Its not random at all! More intricate to calculate yes but not random. A lot of christian holidays are actually pulled from other religions like judaism and paganism. Id recommend looking into the calendars for both!

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Anonymous OP 3d

now, when looking at easter, they didn’t just look at roman calendars, as there was more debate during the time. for christmas, the debate was after the date was chosen, so no matter how much talk, the people have already been used to december 25th

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Anonymous #2 3d

yes, yes, proving my point thank you, the moon is the calendar decider for a lot of holidays but because of the essence of Jesus being in the Perfect Prophet stuff, it specifically is 9 months and not dependent on moon cycles

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Anonymous OP 3d

I’ve even seen agnostics & atheists throw a tantrum over it 😭 there’s definitely some type of bizarre “my experience is the norm and that’s how it SHOULD be, if you dare suggest I should consider other cultures’ practices as equally ‘normal’ then you’re oppressing me!!” entitlement going on there

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Anonymous #11 3d

the spirit of the holiday

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Anonymous #6 3d

Yeah. Like you can say Merry Christmas and Happy holidays. That way you get your holiday in there but are also acknowledging they might celebrate something else.

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Anonymous #16 3d

Yeah. Somebody deserves coal in their stocking💀

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Anonymous OP 3d

I was about the store last night and the mom had 3 bags of coal and a new PlayStation. I would take some coal…lol

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