Merry Christmas!
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If I were to meet someone on the street today in some brief encounter, it's certain that I would wish them "Merry Christmas."
Not "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" or anything else. It would be "Merry Christmas."
It would be "Merry Christmas" whether or not the person is Christian or non-Christian and whether or not I know if they are Christian or
non-Christian. It would be "Merry Christmas" (and nothing else) because I am a Christian.
A primary reason for my expressing extra Good Will to anyone - Christian, Jew, Atheist, Agnostic, Dog, Horse, Fireman etc. is the Christianity within me.
But neither Jews nor Atheists nor Wicca's etc. celebrate Dec. 25 as a holy day – so how should they interpret my wishing them a Merry Christmas?
Seems to me it is most important for them to interpret my greeting correctly – accept the message in the spirit in which it was intended. Wouldn't that make sense?
So should they take my greeting as a demand that they abandon Judaism or Atheism or the Republican Party or whatever religion they belong to now? Is that what my greeting was?
Should they become indignant and hateful and sarcastic because I am trying to persecute their religion or beliefs? Is that really what I was
trying to do?
Should they attack me because my greeting was given them solely to put them down because they and their beliefs are in the minority here. And
should they demand I apologize and get 50 lashes because this is the United States where the criticism and the displeasing of Minorities is forbidden by
law?
Should the way they interpret my "Merry Christmas" be a mirror image of how they would want me to interpret a "Happy Hanukkah" from them?
Should they protest my good will or feel threatened by it, or ignore it, or accept it with the grace to say "Thank you and maybe even offer me their favorite wish of good will?
I don't know how someone "should" or will take my "Merry Christmas." All I know is how I mean it.
Sincerely,
Jim Moore
Hillsboro
If I were to meet someone on the street today in some brief encounter, it's certain that I would wish them "Merry Christmas."
Not "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" or anything else. It would be "Merry Christmas."
It would be "Merry Christmas" whether or not the person is Christian or non-Christian and whether or not I know if they are Christian or
non-Christian. It would be "Merry Christmas" (and nothing else) because I am a Christian.
A primary reason for my expressing extra Good Will to anyone - Christian, Jew, Atheist, Agnostic, Dog, Horse, Fireman etc. is the Christianity within me.
But neither Jews nor Atheists nor Wicca's etc. celebrate Dec. 25 as a holy day – so how should they interpret my wishing them a Merry Christmas?
Seems to me it is most important for them to interpret my greeting correctly – accept the message in the spirit in which it was intended. Wouldn't that make sense?
So should they take my greeting as a demand that they abandon Judaism or Atheism or the Republican Party or whatever religion they belong to now? Is that what my greeting was?
Should they become indignant and hateful and sarcastic because I am trying to persecute their religion or beliefs? Is that really what I was
trying to do?
Should they attack me because my greeting was given them solely to put them down because they and their beliefs are in the minority here. And
should they demand I apologize and get 50 lashes because this is the United States where the criticism and the displeasing of Minorities is forbidden by
law?
Should the way they interpret my "Merry Christmas" be a mirror image of how they would want me to interpret a "Happy Hanukkah" from them?
Should they protest my good will or feel threatened by it, or ignore it, or accept it with the grace to say "Thank you and maybe even offer me their favorite wish of good will?
I don't know how someone "should" or will take my "Merry Christmas." All I know is how I mean it.
Sincerely,
Jim Moore
Hillsboro
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