Have you started telling people Merry Christmas yet?

Merry Christmas, baw.

Happy holidays

Certainly, unless they are Jewish then it's Happy Hannukah

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Have you started telling people Merry Christmas yet?

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Thought that was illegal. Doesn't it offend some small portion of the population?

No, it's still Advent.

what do Muslims call Jesus's birthday?

Happy Holidays






















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It depends. I try not to be offensive so I tell people Happy _______ based on whatever holiday I think they celebrate. Black people get Happy Kwanza and jewish people get Happy Hannunkah (i try to make the yiddish throat clearing sound when I say it too). It lets people know that I am not an offensive person.

I started in mid-October. I stopped on December 1st. Other people get their Christmas shopping done early...I get my Christmas greetings in before the rush.

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what do Muslims call Jesus's birthday?

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From the LINK:

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Significantly, the story of the birth of Christ is actually related in the Qur'an, in Sura 19:16-35. Some of the facts are the same, but, what is most important, the story is given a very different slant. The virgin Mary is told by an angel that she will give birth to a "pure" son, "as a sign unto men and a mercy from Us." She withdraws to a desert place to give birth, alone, under a palm-tree, then returns with the infant to her people. When they chide her, supposing she has been unchaste, Jesus speaks up from the cradle in her defense, announcing himself to be a prophet. The passage concludes by denouncing the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, misinterpreted in gross polytheistic terms: "Such is Jesus, son of Mary, the statement of truth about which they dispute. It is not befitting for God to father a Son, Glory be to Him! When He determines a matter, He only says to it 'Be' and it is."

Thus, although Muslims acknowledge Christ's miraculous birth of a virgin, they do not celebrate Christmas because the Qur'an misinterprets the Incarnation. The hope of salvation which the Incarnate Christ alone brings us is what they need, however. Perhaps this message would get through better if we as Christians would forgo the more superficial trappings of Christmas, innocent though they may seem, to make Christmas more an occasion to worship and praise God for this "inexpressible gift."

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