You may be in the process of making your final Halloween costume decision, but
Anthropologie & Co. at Bethesda Row is much further ahead of you. The store is already decked out for the Christmas season, with a hint of fall and Thanksgiving, for good measure. Reindeer, Christmas trees, and Christmas lights abound. The holiday shopping season is underway.
It isn’t ‘holiday’ it is CHRISTMAS shopping.
ReplyDeleteThe liberal war on Christmas continues
There is no war on "Christmas"
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays has been used for over 100 years.
Do you not like the inclusiveness of the phrase?
It seems to me that the man in question, whose birthday you may be celebrating, would want that inclusiveness.
Let's put the Christian back in Christianity.
ReplyDeleteShut up Robert or Santa won’t bring you any toys
DeleteCinco, that sounds like your own issues with your own religion.
ReplyDeleteI say this as an Episcopalian - if we didn't want Christmas to become a secular holiday, we shouldn't have appropriated the traditions and symbols of so many other religions and incorporated them into the birth of Christ. The Christmas tree, the Yule log, holly & ivy, the stockings... all traditions from pagan religions across Europe. Heck, Santa Claus was Turkish!
ReplyDeleteTo the story at hand, the decorations look great. I really like the big piece above the balcony, and I'm excited to walk around the store and hopefully find one or two things I can afford. I love Anthropologie but it is not cheap!
"Merry Christmas!", he sneered.
ReplyDelete"Heck, Santa Claus was Turkish!"
ReplyDeleteStrictly speaking, he was Greek, from what is now Turkey. It would be another 700 before the Turks entered that area. (They should have Built The Wall.)
The origin story of the Christmas stocking has a sad edge to it. St. Nicholas gave poor girls dowries in stockings, so that they would not need to go into prostitution to survive. This tradition was originally related to St. Nicholas' Day, December 6, but was eventually subsumed by an ever-metastasizing Christmas.
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED RAINDEAR IS GOING TO HELL BECAUSE HE HASNT ACCEPTED OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AS HIS PERSONAL SAVIOR!!1!
ReplyDeleteAnna - I'm a devout atheist.
ReplyDeleteCinco, my apologies. For my comment.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas everyone
ReplyDeleteChristmas Christmas CHRIST Mas!
I say Merry Christmas to my Catholic and Protestant friends
ReplyDeleteI say Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends
I refuse to say Happy Holidays
Why? They're simply words wishing others well during the holidays.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it's not about the words used, it's about the sentiment.
'Christians have exchanged the greeting “Happy Holidays” among themselves for decades, most with the understanding that the “holidays” meant the season of Advent, the four-Sunday cycle on that includes Christmas and ends on the Feast of the Epiphany. But Christmas turned from a religious occasion to a largely secular one for many people, the phrase “Happy Holidays” also expanded its usage, becoming a more universal greeting used to include people of various religions, and even a nod to the New Year.'