OHMYGOD THERE'S A WAR ON CHRISTMAS RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please tell me you posted this sarcastically, firefly.
Please?

This came in e-mail last year:


For Those Politically Correct Recipients:

"Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2006, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher."

For Those Who Can Remember Where it began:

Here's wishing all of You a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !!

Don't like the video, but definitely enjoy dotdude's comments.

I can't take credit for the writing. It came from a lawyer friend. I'm on his "joke e-mail list."

The absurd thing about people claiming that Christmas is "the reason for the season" and reminding us of the time of year's roots is that Christmas was in fact scheduled to correspond to previously existing Pagan festivals. No historical evidence demonstrates that Jesus was actually born in December, and this is apparent as well from a lack of consensus about the date (remember, Eastern Orthodox churches often celebrate Christmas in early January). Furthermore, there are even some Christian denominations who regard it as an invalid holiday (though, for the sake of full disclosure, these are the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Puritans.)

I also submit that saying "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas" is no different than saying "gesundheit" instead of "God bless you" when somebody sneezes. Is it really such a faux pas not to acknowledge someone's presumed religion with a common pleasantry that has nothing to do with it? No.

*discard

Self-discarding this video (discard called by original submitter firefly)