10 Major Retail Stores Take A Stand & Say “Merry Christmas"

They do tend to be very cold and stiff.

mmm, eggnog ...

Have you never heard of shooting fish in a barrel? Of course your doing it wrong -silly.

You know, when issues of whether a word or label is "offensive", we're told that it's offensive if the people it's being said about are offended, even if the word itself is not offensive. We're told to be "respectful".

Yet, here, for whatever reason, we have some Christians who feel offended, who feel that there is a war on Christmas. Yet rather than be polite or respectful, all they get is ridicule. No being respectful of their feeling, no acknowledgement that they may feel this way. Just ridicule for feeling that way.

Yet another hypocrisy by the so-called "tolerant" sect. There may not be a "war" on Christmas but it's definitely "open season" on devout Christians, their beliefs and their feelings. So what if they're happy that there's a return to "Merry Christmas". Is that really a reason for all the denigration seen on this post?

It is lost in them. It doesn't fit their victim narrative so it's not a rallying point.

And a later quote has a "slappity, slap, slap" quality to it. Really Lauren, there are no monsters under the bed, no underground, left leaning, liberal, Hillary supporting,  conspiracy lovin' group out to get you here.  No "them" vs. "us" which you continue to perpetuate. There are just some (like me) who want a better world and will call out bullying, racist, homophobic behavior everywhere it occurs.  In my ideal world everyone is included including those whose choices don't match mine.

Yeah, ridiculed...

because stating that some changes were to include every celebration was met with "it's bullshit",

And others who are attempting to include everyone/celebrations are referred to as "nazis".

No ridicule there. Right.

FIRST of all----Many, MANY (( hugs )) to your son and some IDIOTS he has to deal with !??!!
I WISH this was a joke !!!! Does she actually think Target will CARE that she'll never shop there again!??!  


And THEN, she makes it worse----she wants to speak to a manager !!!!!!!!!!!! Omg, can you IMAGINE how hard it
would be to be that manager !! Ohhhh, the things I would want to say to her !!!

Hey lady---here's the earth, and here's you.....the earth does NOT revolve around YOU!!! 

By the way....Fairlyoddparent ----did your son hear the conversation between the crazy, narcissistic customer and the manager?!!? Wonder if it was that LOON from the infamous "Micheal's" video !??!

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I love Jim Wright even MORE now !!!! 

Every time I shop this time of year, I always say something friendly to the casheirs, ESPECIALLY when you can tell they've had a rough day.  And I always tell them "I hope that customers aren't taking out their stress on YOU"....I say it kind of loudly so that just IN CASE there's a selfish idiot in line behind me, they MIGHT think twice before they lash out at the innocent employee who's just doing their stressful job !?!   


Many employees have looked at me with a surprized/ happy exrpression and said "wow--thank you! I wish every customer felt this way!" 

Actually, Christmas is based mostly on Pagan rituals and symbolism that the early Christians adopted for their own uses. But we all know that you aren't the kind of person who lets little things like fact and history affect your worldview....

No worries.  
We're all here to live and learn!  
Happy Holidays!

Well first of all I consider myself a "devout" Christian so don't lump us all into the same group. And anyway, saying "Merry Christmas" has nothing to do with one's Christian faith. -- And second, the issue is not disrespecting someone else's beliefs. The main issue is that this certain type of Christian wants to put *their* beliefs on everyone else. Not just in this "Merry Christmas" thing but in larger more important issues. I am absolutely tolerant -- to use your word -- of anyone else's religious beliefs, but I don't want any of them to be forced onto a larger society. This whole "merry Christmas" thing smacks of that. -- And the group who wants to put their brand of Christianity onto others never really answers the question I and others asked... "how does what other people believe affect your own faith?" If I fervently believe in the blue moon god and bow down to him (her?) you are still free to believe in the pink star god. One does not negate the other. But if I try to make laws that say "my blue moon god is the only god, you may not paint yourself pink on starry nights" then you pink people are being persecuted.

Oh, and it's the whole "persecution" thing that sets many of us off. American Christians are not persecuted. omg. Check the news from yesterday in Egypt (someone already mentioned that, I think, in this thread) to see Christians who are persecuted. 

Thank you for saying this.

We don't need to be tolerant of those who want their way to be the only way. It seems to escape those "Christmas only" folks that their holiday is included among those being wished happy. That isn't good enough. Alone among all the others, they feel entitled to a greeting that specifies their particular belief, and further, they want everyone else to receive that greeting as well.

That's the behavior of spoiled children and dictators, not reasonable adults. Why on earth should we be tolerant of that?

I say Merry Christmas because that is just what I am used to saying. I've never had any one react negatively to it. I wouldn't care if someone wished me a Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza, Feliz Navidad, etc .. 

I don't see, hear, read of anyone trying to eradicate Christmas!