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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

Yet another reason not to shop at Walmart.  Like I needed any more reasons. 

Still, one store (albeit a big one) preventing their employees from saying "Merry Christmas" could hardly be considered an all out assault on Christianity.  I still don't get the anger and the attitude.

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

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I get emails all the time from someone I was friends with when I lived in Florida. Most are against Obama, for prayer, etc. I delete them and find them all obnoxious.

I used to reply with snopes debunking of urban legends and eventually was dropped from their email forward list.

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Here is an idea, why don’t you on the left let people celebrate Christmas and stop insisting they have to call it “Happy Holidays” so that you might not get offended?!

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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

Yet another reason not to shop at Walmart.  Like I needed any more reasons. 

Still, one store (albeit a big one) preventing their employees from saying "Merry Christmas" could hardly be considered an all out assault on Christianity......

Merry Christmas. 

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What toxic66 says is very true. I don't think anyone would go to Israel and bitch that everyone said "Happy Hannuka." In this country, we have bent every which way to accomodate immigrants. Automated operators offer Spanish, the DMV allows you to take the test in Spanish. Local communities must limit their decorations to things considered "non-religious" items (although my town has a Christmas tree, Menorah, Santa Claus and dreidel) so as not to offend anyone.

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Yes, we all are entitled to worship and believe as we choose. You aren't Christian, yet get enjoyment from saying "Merry Christmas," and I trust you mean it in the spirit of wishing good things to those you say it to. The people who are bitching and moaning about it are the same who would bite your head off for wishing them a "Merry Christmas" and sniping how they don't celebrate that holiday. What is wrong with people, that they can't just politely say, "thank you" and move on, content in the concept that someone wished them well?

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ORIGINAL: hlen5

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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

I think some people think it's just another straw on the pile.

- No public prayer,
         OK.  But why are Christians so insistent about public prayer?  Nothing stops them from praying all they want, in public or in private.  Why is it so important that other people be inflicted with their prayers?
- No public displays of Christmas (Creches, etc.),
           I see creches at churches and private residences all the time.  So again, who is stopping them?  Yes, government entities don't put up stuff like this anymore.  How does that interfere with anyone's religious freedom?
- "Holiday" concerts instead of Christmas concerts,
          Like at schools and things?  Yes, this is true.  So what? Not all students are Christians.  Again, how does this interfere with anyone's right to practice their religion.  The answer is, of course, that it doesn't.  The reverse is also true.  My school district used to have Halloween parties, until the fundamentalists got all hot and bothered about that.  Now they call it a Harvest party.  Dumb.
- "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"
         Again, BFD.  Personally, I say merry christmas, but that doesn't mean the holiday has the least bit of religious significance for me.

and so on.....

I don't shop at Wal-Mart either.

I am not picking on you hlen, I know this is the attitude.  But all I can conclude is that people like my crazy FB friends aren't offended because their right to practice their religion is being interfered with, they are offended because others don't share their beliefs.  Guess they are just going to have to get over it.  Which is basically what I told my two FB friends.  I imagine that they have unfriended me by now, so problem solved.

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People on the left? Which people would those be?

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ORIGINAL: toxic66

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People on the left? Which people would those be?

Obviously, the ones who bitch about Christmas every year.

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The retailers obviously consider it to be smart business,. and god knows money is the true religion in this country. 

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ORIGINAL: hlen5

I was trying to refer to the straw that broke the camel's back.

Any one of the things I mentioned aren't momentous, but taken together, some people DO feel Christianity is being assaulted.

Add that to the fact that political correctness is making people accomodate Islam, atheism, and Wicca among others.

I am not anti- any other religion but was expressing a view I've heard from others. It does not offend me that others want their views respected, as is Their right, too.

I'm a little worried about getting flamed for being "intolerant" even though what I've posted is not intolerant of others.