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		<title>By: Tramadol.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tramadol.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Ed</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is so wrong with Happy Holidays? If there was a way to include 100% of people rather than 85%, which would any intelligent person choose? By the way, I don't recall the Christian God being anywhere in our Constitution. And some of our Founding Fathers were not even Christian...they were deists. Stop trying to pollute minds with this nonsense about the war on Christianity and grow up. It is 2007, not 1507. The universe does not revolve around you or your faith anymore.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is so wrong with Happy Holidays? If there was a way to include 100% of people rather than 85%, which would any intelligent person choose? By the way, I don&#8217;t recall the Christian God being anywhere in our Constitution. And some of our Founding Fathers were not even Christian&#8230;they were deists. Stop trying to pollute minds with this nonsense about the war on Christianity and grow up. It is 2007, not 1507. The universe does not revolve around you or your faith anymore.</p>
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		<title>By: California Conservative &#187; In Defense of Rosie O&#8217;Donnell</title>
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		<dc:creator>California Conservative &#187; In Defense of Rosie O&#8217;Donnell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Everybody is taking offense and the grievance industry is in full swing. It&#8217;s gone so far that many companies (and people) today are afraid to say &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; lest someone gets offended. And all the while the New York Times and liberals cry that &#8220;President Bush is taking away our freedoms.&#8221; Seems like the freedom to speak your mind has already been compromised, and the reason is obvious: political correctness. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Everybody is taking offense and the grievance industry is in full swing. It&#8217;s gone so far that many companies (and people) today are afraid to say &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; lest someone gets offended. And all the while the New York Times and liberals cry that &#8220;President Bush is taking away our freedoms.&#8221; Seems like the freedom to speak your mind has already been compromised, and the reason is obvious: political correctness. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Melissa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do that you realize that Christmas is actually a Pagan holiday. The early Christians who wanted to convert the pagans or "heathens" used the time when the pagan's god was "born" (or re-born according to some) as the time that their savior was born. Everything about Christmas is pagan, and yes, including the manger scene as the birth of the "sun god" to a deified woman (the goddess or Mary). Furthermore, up until recently, Christmas has been a time for revelry, and not really for religious reverance. It is only recently (past few hundred years, or so), that people have been trying to put Christ back in Christmas. In fact, the term "merry" had sexual connotations when it was first introduced. Now, please, before you go shooting your mouth off about supporting Christmas for Christians, learn about its history, and you will see that it is not just Christian. Also, many times stores will start their holiday planning in November, so that would entail Thanksgiving as well. Last time I checked, Thanksgiving is a holiday. So, even if you were to take a strictly Christian view on this, saying Happy Holidays is a lot easier than saying Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do that you realize that Christmas is actually a Pagan holiday. The early Christians who wanted to convert the pagans or &#8220;heathens&#8221; used the time when the pagan&#8217;s god was &#8220;born&#8221; (or re-born according to some) as the time that their savior was born. Everything about Christmas is pagan, and yes, including the manger scene as the birth of the &#8220;sun god&#8221; to a deified woman (the goddess or Mary). Furthermore, up until recently, Christmas has been a time for revelry, and not really for religious reverance. It is only recently (past few hundred years, or so), that people have been trying to put Christ back in Christmas. In fact, the term &#8220;merry&#8221; had sexual connotations when it was first introduced. Now, please, before you go shooting your mouth off about supporting Christmas for Christians, learn about its history, and you will see that it is not just Christian. Also, many times stores will start their holiday planning in November, so that would entail Thanksgiving as well. Last time I checked, Thanksgiving is a holiday. So, even if you were to take a strictly Christian view on this, saying Happy Holidays is a lot easier than saying Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas.</p>
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		<title>By: Maurice Kane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maurice Kane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since the founding of this republic, established in accordance with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, which were rooted in the Judeo-Christian ethos, Americans have celebrated Christmas. This holiday is not offensive in the least. When I was growing up, even non-Christians tolerantly and happily exchanged "Merry Christmas" as opposed to the execrable and inane "Happy Holidays". 
I realize that retailers themselves would just as soon take our cash, credit cards and checks as even say, "Thank You" during the other 11 months of the year and may not have any particular inherent animus and loathing for God or the religious significance of December 25th yet consider that the vast majority of Americans self-identify as "Christians" and generally will patronize shopping malls, boutiques and other commercial establishments, it would be practical, prudent and pragmatic to appeal to the cutstomer base's sense of tradition and religiosity regardless of the retailers'apparent agnosticism.
Support Christmas for Christianity and Commerce.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since the founding of this republic, established in accordance with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, which were rooted in the Judeo-Christian ethos, Americans have celebrated Christmas. This holiday is not offensive in the least. When I was growing up, even non-Christians tolerantly and happily exchanged &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; as opposed to the execrable and inane &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221;.<br />
I realize that retailers themselves would just as soon take our cash, credit cards and checks as even say, &#8220;Thank You&#8221; during the other 11 months of the year and may not have any particular inherent animus and loathing for God or the religious significance of December 25th yet consider that the vast majority of Americans self-identify as &#8220;Christians&#8221; and generally will patronize shopping malls, boutiques and other commercial establishments, it would be practical, prudent and pragmatic to appeal to the cutstomer base&#8217;s sense of tradition and religiosity regardless of the retailers&#8217;apparent agnosticism.<br />
Support Christmas for Christianity and Commerce.</p>
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		<title>By: Stop The ACLU</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stop The ACLU</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Stop The ACLU &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Support Christmas &#8212; Sign The Petition</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stop The ACLU &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Support Christmas &#8212; Sign The Petition</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: California Conservative &#187; Support Christmas</title>
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		<dc:creator>California Conservative &#187; Support Christmas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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