A Short Announcement

Since the local retailers seem convinced that the Holiday Season is upon us, I'm trying to decide which would irritate fundamentalists more as I fire my salvos in the war on you-know-what: calling it the "Holiday Season" or calling it "Xmas".

I might go with the latter since great numbers of otherwise sensible people (in addition to the wackos) seem rather perturbed by it, but one does get the satisfaction of then pointing out that the "X" is "Xmas" represents a Greek "chi", the ancient monogram of you-know-who, and that "Xmas" is a venerable, ancient form of the name for the part of the Holiday Season that doth need protecting.

Posted on November 16, 2006 at 00.05 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Splenetics

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Thursday, 16 November 2006 at 01.46
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    Yes, and "X" is supposed to bring to mind the cross.

    I'm sure that saying "Secular humanist greetings and best wishes for a fine midwinter gala" would do the trick.

  2. Written by rightsaidfred
    on Friday, 17 November 2006 at 02.41
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    Since your liberal, post-modern, deconstruction has left you with contempt for anything connected to conservative spiritualism, I would suggest the phrase "bah, humbug".

  3. Written by jns
    on Friday, 17 November 2006 at 16.01
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    Liberal, perhaps, but I was a godless atheist long before anything became "post modern". And, in fact, I don't really mind Xmas or any other of the holidays that have come in modern times to be associated with winter festivals celebrating the return of daylight. I do, however, object to the presumption of certain Christian absolutists who believe they should have a monopoly on marketing one of the holidays strictly with their own brand of self-righteous piety affixed.

    Nevertheless, "bah, humbug!" has a certain poetic utility that I find attractive, except that it suggests that I don't approve of winter festivals and their associated parties, which is rather far from the truth.

  4. Written by rightsaidfred
    on Saturday, 18 November 2006 at 01.52
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    I've just visited a blog where the writer was decrying the "marketing monopoly" of Microsoft. I suppose both Christianity and Microsoft were warm and fuzzy until they got so big they stepped into the realm of satisfying all of the people all of the time.

    I had considered suggesting the phrase "Allah Akbar", spoken with a smile and warmth, since it can serve as a generic greeting. It also freights some of the Christian loathing you aspire to. But, I imagine it is too sectarian for your tastes.

  5. Written by Bearcastle Blog
    on Tuesday, 21 November 2006 at 13.03
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    No Xmas Sales — We're Christian

    With the sounds of the cannons of the War on Xmas# booming in the background, Pat Boone had this bit of praise* for Wal*Mart:

    This year, instead of bowing and kowtowing to militant atheist and super liberal "political correctness," so-called, I'm…

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