civilized ku # 2027 ~ self-referential* holiday greetings
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 04:04PM ;)
Art Gallery with Adirondack Views ~ Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenIt has been stated, by some here in the good ol' US of A, that Australians are lucky because, in their country's formative years, they got the convicts whereas here in the good ol' US of A, we got the Christians, aka: Puritans.
As part of our legacy, we here have to put up with those so-called Christians who, every holiday season, start whining like stuck pigs about the "war on Christmas". Their favorite article of prima facie faith of the waging of that war is the phrase, Happy Holidays (or some variation thereof), which, in their truncated / self centered / self righteous world view, is a pejorative form of greeting meant solely to insult/offend them by "taking the Christ out of Christmas".
Again in their truncated / self centered / self righteous world view, it apparently never occurs to them that there are many on the planet who celebrate the holiday season from an entirely different perspective - religious, secular, and/or otherwise. Consequently, in recognition of and out of respect for that diversity, for virtually all who use it, the Happy Holiday greeting is meant to be an inclusive form of greeting, not an exclusive one - as those-who-need-to-feel-persecuted (martyrs, one and all) need/want to believe.
And, as an added feature of their insular thinking, they totally miss the irony that is part and parcel of their insistence that "Merry Christmas" is the only acceptable greeting for the holiday season. To wit, this insistence almost always comes from those who also scream, loud and clear, against (in their belief system) so-called leftist / feminist / gay / et al "politically correct" speech. BTW, I think the bible has something to say about hypocrites.
In any event, I and mine would like to wish everyone (even Canon and Nikon users) Happy Holidays / Season's Greetings, however you celebrate the season.
*I am referring to art which seems to be referring to itself.
Reader Comments (3)
Hmm ... just bought an Olympus E-P2 to be on the safe side!
Happy happy as well :)
Happy Holidays Mark! :-)
As we in South Australia like to point out to the interstaters, our State was a freely settled, planned British province. Although we like to claim we have no "convict stock" in our fair State, truth is a few did drift in across the border.