Chances The Stranger You Just Spoke to is Jewish
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Chances a Jewish Person will kill you for saying “Merry Christmas”
0.5%
I find it hard to believe there is a 100% chance any stranger you wish Merry Christmas to is Jewish lol
More or less, 40% of the time when I was in college.
I just reply with, “Happy Chanukah!”
Yep, that’s what I do.
You should have seen the look on the Wal-Mart greeter’s face…
i just say ‘happy holidays’ lol
You sir, are worse than Hitler.
Troll.
It’s a Simpsons quote…
I really dont see why people get upset over the merry chirstmas vs. happy holidays arguement. Too much time on their hands? Do so many of these people have nothing better to do then complain and shit about what greeting someone uses towards them? whether it’s merry chirstmas, happy holidays, happy chanukah, or even happy kwanzaa you should greet them back with whatever you see fit, not rip their heads off because they arent using the greeting YOU like. There is something called freedom of speech people >_>
(I’m an athiest but I still say happy holidays to be friendly. Not all athiests are insentive assholes who try to denounce god to every religious person they see)
I really dont see why people get so upset over the merry chirstmas vs. happy holidays arguement. Too much time on their hands? Do so many of these people have nothing better to do then complain and shit about what greeting someone uses towards them? whether it’s merry chirstmas, happy holidays, happy chanukah, or even happy Kwanzaa you should greet them back with whatever you see fit, not rip their head off because they didnt use the greeting YOU like. There is something called freedom of speech people >_>
(I’m an Athiest but I still say happy holidays to be friendly. Not all Athiest are insensitive assholes that try to denounce god to every religious person they see)
I always say Merry Christmas back. Just because I’m Jewish, I can’t have a Merry Christmas?
Oh… You changed my life just now.
Of course not! Everyone knows Jewish people return to the mothership on Christmas. XP
nah we just go to the movies then to the chinese restaurant
We celebrate Christmas, just a bit differently than our Christian counterparts. Instead of putting up a a tree, we go to the movies and go out for Chinese food.
Just LOLd at the concept of a commenter named Noel, commenting in a thread about Christmas, being Jewish.
exactly, we usually go to superwok or uncle chen’s
I’m always afraid that will happen. I generally say “Happy Holidays.” Although I could always change that to, “I hope you have a happy holiday irregardless of your religious persuasion, if any,* although I’m aware this makes me worse than Hitler.”
*Although I’m not very sorry if you’re one of the loud atheists that the ACLU exists for now.
So… Around holiday season everyone becomes Jewish?
You sir, fail twice. Once for being an idiot, and once for beating the fossilized remains of this horse yet again. I hope you get intestinal cancer.
intestinal cancer?
I wish you a Merry Christmas now and you wish me Happy Chanukah later, and we be friends. Is that okay?
People that are offended by “Merry Christmas” should be kicked in the groin. >=(
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It’s just my opinion, but it’s true.
Happy Saturnalia.
Saturnalia sounds like fun.
Can we amend that to “People who take the ‘Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays’ argument seriously should be kicked in the groin”? Because that’s MY opinion.
Yes, Bill O’Reilly should absolutely be kicked in the groin.
I personally volunteer to do the kicking, let me just get my steel-toes on…
I’ll help… just bought a new pair of pointy-toe heels… : )
Yeah, screw that whole “peace on earth” and good will stuff, let’s all get either hypersensitive or insensitive. It doesn’t matter what they say, it’s the friendliness that counts.
If someone says “Merry Christmas” I say it back. Same goes for “Happy Holidays” or the rare “Happy Chanukkah” (to which I reply “Achim!”). Tolerance goes both ways.
Your friendly neighbourhood heathen,
katillac
How about “Can you break this $100 bill?”
LOL…
D:
Every single person you’ve ever said “Merry Christmas” to was Jewish? If I could beat the odds like that, I’d move to Vegas and never leave.
You would be surprised how many Vegas residents are Jewish.
You could solve the problem entirely by not telling people you’ve never met to enjoy your religious holiday, which they may or may not observe. It’s not “offensive” per se; it just reveals the egocentrism of the person saying it. Why can’t you just say “have a nice day” like you would any other time of year?
Because for every other holiday we say “Have a *insert adjective meaning “good”* *insert holiday name*”?
Besides which, if you get all bent out of shape because somebody says something based off of their personal experience, then you’re not going to be having any conversation.
thank you! about time some sense entered this discussion.
it’s not even a binary discussion: religious groups other than christians and jews exist and indeed thrive in america. and some of us are frankly allergic to the rest of y’all’s in-your-face approach to your own religion.
Lame, and not funny.
Bagel? WTF?
http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/us-jewish-population.html
Actual chance of the stranger you spoke to being a Jew: ~2%.
Where the heck do you live, where 30% of the population you randomly speak to is Jewish?
Roughly 3% of the US population is Jewish. That was the 2005 statistic– there’s obviously some extreme regional variability.
i agree with Cecona you don’t have to believe in god to love christmas to have fun, like for instance he doesn’t and i do and its stupid to think that your going to get sued for acknowledging god on a holiday thats FOR God and i really don’t get the bagel and Merry Christmas
It’s also the only religious holiday that doubles as a federal holiday, try to understand why some of us Jews (and other non-Christians) bristle at that.
And if you don’t get the bagel thing you clearly don’t live in a heavily Jewish-populated area.
“Holiday
Holiday is a contraction of holy and day, holidays originally represented special religious days. This word has evolved in general usage to mean any extra special day of rest (as opposed to regular days of rest such as the weekend). Countrywide Holidays stands for when everybody plans for holidays or a break. Under many belief systems, days of rest are necessary for ritual or spiritual rejuvenation.
Holy days originated in the Bible as 7 annual Holy Days the Jews or children of Israel were commanded to keep as instructed by Moses (who received it from the Lord or Yahweh (the Eternal One)). Outlined in Leviticus 23 are the 7 annual Holy Days that were to be kept. The word holi-day has replaced “Holy-Day” in today’s English.”
Considering some of the arguments and what not centered around Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays I have to giggles when I read this as there’s still a little bit of religion in in the whole thing no matter what. ^_^ And like it matters. =) Most everyone enjoys this time of year, so what difference does it make if you think of it in terms of secular or spiritual? It’s all the same thing and it’s still a religious holy day… I mean holiday. ;D
Merry Christmas to all. ^_^
wow – and i thought the real point of the “season” (regardless of ANY religion) was peace within ourselves ……and throughout the world – what a thread –
its a big wide world out there…..
(I’ve lived many places in our world – and now live in a small rural town where there are very few jews – I am a jew with pagan tendencies)
I wish you all a peaceful season full of wonder……and an experience that teaches you some things just don’t matter, and some people are just trying to be kind the best way they know how or how they were taught…..
enjoy the solstice <:)
Uh. . . Wow. I came here thinking this was a joke website. What are all of you doing here? Why are we sitting around, with apparently way too much free time we could be using debating these topics with people who actually care, arguing about the political correctness of a clearly racist joke?
I would like to respond to all of the above posters with this question: A Mexican and a Black man are in a car. Who is driving?
The Cop!