War on Christmas

E-mail sent out by a guy at my church…

We’ve been hearing a lot that stores like Target are fighting
to eliminate all references to Christmas. While I support
encouraging employees to use religion-neutral greetings, I admit
it would bug me if I felt they were trying to wipe out Christmas
or any other holiday.

Just for fun, I decided to Google their website for some
standard holiday greetings. Here are the rankings:

“Happy Hanukkah” - 6 hits
“Season’s Greetings” - 37 hits
“Happy Holidays” - 63 hits
“Merry Christmas” - 332 hits

I also searched their site for just the names of major holidays:

“Diwali” - 3 hits
“Kwanzaa” - 130 hits
“Saturnalia” - 9 hits (OK, that one surprised me)
“Ramadan” - 30 hits
“Solstice” - 161 hits
“Hanukkah” - 278 hits
“Christmas” - 36,700 hits

Sounds like the whole thing is a tempest in a teapot to me.

In the spirit of lightening up for the holidays:
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/humor/party.asp

As Krusty the Clown says:
“have a merry Christmas, a happy Hanukkah,
a kwaazy Kwanza, a tip-top Tet, and a solemn,
dignified, Ramadan. And now a word from MY
god, our sponsors!”

Posted: December 15, 2005

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