What's so offensive about saying "Happy Thanksgiving"

This isn't about party line, as I know plenty of "Liberals" who are offended in the holiday nomenclature. The problem is a heart condition that is ungrateful to tradition, religion, and heritage. Folks try to define their being through their much chest pounding in the name of political correctness and neutral religious stance.

If you don’t believe on God or your faith is counter to the traditions of the day then refuse to take the day off that people of faith are providing you. Work to get a day off in the name of your faith and we will work while you are off. I would have no problem working through Hanukkah so a Jewish friend could have off.

Please don’t tell me that “holiday” represents all faiths. Thanksgiving is to give thanks to a gracious God for allowing us to be a part of this great country. Christmas is exactly that. A day of Mass for the birth of Christ. If you are not into either then don’t celebrate it. Take the day off you don’t deserve and shut up.
And BTW it’s in MHO.
 
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Pack,

Okay.... your point is well made and should be taken sincerely. At the same time, while there may be anecdotal exceptions, nearly the entirety of the attacks on Christmas have come from the left. The reputation has been earned, even if there are exceptions.
 
In my life I've discovered that the extremes of just about anything, ruins just about everything.

I'm a Christian and conservative in most ways. My best friend and business partner of 20 years is Jewish and is liberal in most ways. We balance each other out socially and fiscally. He gets after me when I'm too far right and creamy white and I get after him when he goes off the reservation on liberal causes. We exchange gifts or telephone calls on all of our individual holidays. It's about mutual respect and not a judgement of who is right or wrong.
 
Skeetobite said:
In my life I've discovered that the extremes of just about anything, ruins just about everything.

I'm a Christian and conservative in most ways. My best friend and business partner of 20 years is Jewish and is liberal in most ways. We balance each other out socially and fiscally. He gets after me when I'm too far right and creamy white and I get after him when he goes off the reservation on liberal causes. We exchange gifts or telephone calls on all of our individual holidays. It's about mutual respect and not a judgement of who is right or wrong.
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The answer to many of our problems is contained in your statement and philosophy, Happy Thanksgiving.
 
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Should have responded: So are you taking tomorrow and Friday off Biotch?

Happy Thanksgiving to my all my tweaked out on Oxycontin, closeted homosexual, unfaitful to their wife fellow conservatives!
 
No offence to blue dog democrats or even liberal minded centrists. The person I described is the norm here in D.C. Outside of town the left is the check to the right. In D.C. the left is communist elite with a rather un American agenda.
Pack66Dad said:
I read the original post and I have to say what offends me is that "liberals" are always judged as a group by conservative folks.

I'm the most liberal person I know and I say Merry Christmas NOT happy holidays.

I also own guns, I own a business, I drive a 4x4 V-8 American made pick-up and I always stand up, take off my hat and put my right hand over my heart when the national anthem is played...... oh, and I'm a member of the Southern Baptist Church too. :wow:

Everything you guys rail on liberals about is total bull crap in my case and for almost every liberal I know too. In fact the ONLY time I ever got chastised for saying "Merry Christmas" was by a nit-wit, thin skinned jehovah witness (who by the way had a "Bush '04" sticker on his damn crappy old toyota).

I don't think all conservatives are closet homosexuals, hooked on Oxycontin or unfaithful to their wife, so why must you always paint all liberals with a broad brush of bull****?

Does it kill your buzz when you realize your really not any different than me :huh:

All that aside, Happy Thanksgiving :grin: I hope and pray the best for you an your families on this special day.
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Pack66Dad said:
I read the original post and I have to say what offends me is that "liberals" are always judged as a group by conservative folks.

I'm the most liberal person I know and I say Merry Christmas NOT happy holidays.

I also own guns, I own a business, I drive a 4x4 V-8 American made pick-up and I always stand up, take off my hat and put my right hand over my heart when the national anthem is played...... oh, and I'm a member of the Southern Baptist Church too. :wow:

Everything you guys rail on liberals about is total bull crap in my case and for almost every liberal I know too. In fact the ONLY time I ever got chastised for saying "Merry Christmas" was by a nit-wit, thin skinned jehovah witness (who by the way had a "Bush '04" sticker on his damn crappy old toyota).

I don't think all conservatives are closet homosexuals, hooked on Oxycontin or unfaithful to their wife, so why must you always paint all liberals with a broad brush of bull****?

Does it kill your buzz when you realize your really not any different than me :huh:

All that aside, Happy Thanksgiving :grin: I hope and pray the best for you an your families on this special day.
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That's awesome....Thanks and Merry Christmas!
 
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

BTW, My boss is Jewish, and quite liberal and their family says happy thanksgiving too. They celebrate it just like most of us.

And to those who don't celebrate thanksgiving, Christmas, or Hanukkah, I guess...Happy Festavus?
 
ch435 said:
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

BTW, My boss is Jewish, and quite liberal and their family says happy thanksgiving too. They celebrate it just like most of us.

And to those who don't celebrate thanksgiving, Christmas, or Hanukkah, I guess...Happy Festavus?
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Yea, Festivus for the rest of us. Now let's get to the Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength.
 
Celebrated on Dec 23rd. I will gladly support this with the rest of you. I have no problem designating a date for a holiday as long as it's not trying to hyjack one that has been our heritage.

So I say to you:

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Happy Friday off after Thanksgiving.....oh wait I'm off every day....I'm a Centrist leaning liberal, gun toting, American car driving, God fearing, flag waving retiree and I'm not going to change my ways.....I will continue to say without apology Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving, God Bless America and any other holiday that I want and if anybody is offened, too bad.....Too much?.....whew....I feel better now that I let that out....LMAO.:lol:
 
When we say Merry Christmas isn't it a gesture of friendliness, warmth, and a wish for happiness? Why would someone be unhappy about that? I wouldn't get pissed if someone says Happy Hanakkah or Kwansaa to me, I know what they mean...hey, thanks, same to you. Holiday is a contraction of holy and day so I imagine Atheists could complain. WTF do we say to them, have a 'Happy Day'? That probably won't work either because it implies the day should be a happy one. How come the government designates holidays that celibrate religous events anyway?

I'm not usually politcally correct but I'll give it a try. I think I'll be sure not to offend any CSR buddies if I simply say "Day" but it just don't seem right to me.:huh:
 
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Proclamation of Thanksgiving

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders similar to this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.

Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on September 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She explained, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution."

Prior to this, each state scheduled its own Thanksgiving holiday at different times, mainly in New England and other Northern states. President Lincoln responded to Mrs. Hale's request immediately, unlike several of his predecessors, who ignored her petitions altogether. In her letter to Lincoln she mentioned that she had been advocating a national thanksgiving date for 15 years as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book.

The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise." According to an April 1, 1864, letter from John Nicolay, one of President Lincoln's secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his handwriting. On October 3, 1863, fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary how he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops.

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
 
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