Comments on: Pearl Harbor and the War on Christmas https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/ Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:25:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Cat's Staff https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/#comment-527703 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:25:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/#comment-527703 I was at the local Hennepin County service center a few weeks ago and very religious music was being played. If I closed my eyes I could have thought I was in a church with hymns being sung. So it’s not just in non-governmental public space.

Maybe we should start a “Secularists for Christmas” movement and complain when stores don’t use the term Christmas because we want it to increase the secular nature of Christmas time by having all these stores cheapen it with their merchandising that starts before Halloween.

It just struck me that it’s interesting that Christians don’t want gay people to be able to use the term ‘marriage’ because they want to reserve that for themselves, while they want everyone to use the term Christmas, even when it’s for activities that have nothing to do with the religious (Christian) origins of Christmas.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/#comment-527702 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:54:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/#comment-527702 You know, now that you mention it, Hanukkah decorations etc used to be more common around here, until Billo started screeching about the mythical ‘War on Christmas’. It is like the stores quietly stopped carrying them..especially in the more conservative areas around here. In the Democratic areas, I can still find cards, dreidels and other things to complete a Jewish celebration. For some reason though, it is okay to have gefilte fish 365 days a year, but in the ‘Jewish’ section of the grocery.

]]> By: Eric Lund https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/#comment-527701 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:39:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/#comment-527701 I had vague recollections of an old song called “Happy Holidays”, and sure enough, Google tells me that there was such a song, written by Irving Berlin and first performed by Bing Crosby in the movie Holiday Inn (1942). (Several other artists have recorded the song as well; the version I remember might have been by Perry Como.) Berlin and Crosby were the same people behind “White Christmas” (also used in Holiday Inn). So the next time somebody objects to the phrase “Happy Holidays”, ask them what they have against these two icons of 1940s American music and the generation that fought WWII.

]]> By: Chris https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/#comment-527700 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:33:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/07/pearl-harbor-and-the-war-on-ch/#comment-527700 Loved it, and I can relate to a lot of that! Jewish in-laws and all. Thanks again!

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