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The phrases "Happy Holidays" has certainly been around at least as long as Irving Berlin's song of the same name, written for the 1942 film "Holiday Inn." Its use as the preferred mercantile greeting may have less to do with retailers wanting to consciously exclude mentions of Christ and more to do with casting as broad a net as possible in search of buyers. |
The phrases "Happy Holidays" has certainly been around at least as long as Irving Berlin's song of the same name, written for the 1942 film "Holiday Inn." Its use as the preferred mercantile greeting may have less to do with retailers wanting to consciously exclude mentions of Christ and more to do with casting as broad a net as possible in search of buyers. |
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== Rampant Point of View == |
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Let's have a discussion, folks, before merely reverting things that disagree with your opinion. This is not an op-ed page. This is an encyclopedia. |
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1. The image of the 'first christmas' hardly belongs here. This is not a discussion of Christmas, this is the discussion of events 2,000 afterwards. Otherwise we might as well put that picture up with the articles on Crusades and Inquisition. |
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2. There need to be some websites and links for the opposite viewpoint |
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3. The stores "for" - "against" Chrstimas headings is blatant POV |
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4. It's irrelevant what the Salvation Army ringers use the money for. wikify Salvation army, and people can find the information there. |
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Revision as of 01:49, 4 December 2005
(SNIP) Rm PoV sandboxing. Dominick (TALK) 15:30, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Point of View
This entry is poorly written and researched, and betrays the author's point of view by using the heading "Fronts," describing talk show host Bill O'Reilly as a "reporter," and listing stores as being "for" or "against" Christmas based on whether they "allow" the greeting "Merry Christmas" on signs (signs that they presumably pay for, and are hanging in their stores).
Origins of the "War on Christmas"
The idea of a "war on Christmas" hardly originated with Bill O'Reilly. It has a long history in the 20th century, including Henry Ford's 1921 pamphlet "The International Jew" and various writings of the John Birch Society. 68.33.148.243 01:48, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Remember
Remember folks sign your posts. Chooserr
Meaning of the phrase "Happy Holidays"
"Holiday" means "holy day," while "the holidays" in American parlance usually refers to the Christmas-New Year or Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year period. More recently, with the recognition that non-Christians celebrate holidays at roughly the same time of year, it has expanded to include Hannukah and Kwanzaa.
The phrases "Happy Holidays" has certainly been around at least as long as Irving Berlin's song of the same name, written for the 1942 film "Holiday Inn." Its use as the preferred mercantile greeting may have less to do with retailers wanting to consciously exclude mentions of Christ and more to do with casting as broad a net as possible in search of buyers.
Rampant Point of View
Let's have a discussion, folks, before merely reverting things that disagree with your opinion. This is not an op-ed page. This is an encyclopedia.
1. The image of the 'first christmas' hardly belongs here. This is not a discussion of Christmas, this is the discussion of events 2,000 afterwards. Otherwise we might as well put that picture up with the articles on Crusades and Inquisition. 2. There need to be some websites and links for the opposite viewpoint 3. The stores "for" - "against" Chrstimas headings is blatant POV 4. It's irrelevant what the Salvation Army ringers use the money for. wikify Salvation army, and people can find the information there.