Blessed Yule/Solstice

[Dreamweaver]

I'm 99.84% sure that one of my friends has turned to Paganism. When meeting someone of a different religion, would it be proper or offensive to wish them a happy "feast-day-or-celebration-for-their-particular-religion". I wouldn't have a problem wishing Happy Chanukah to a Jewish person, but Christianity and Judaism are like kissing cousins when it comes to world religions. :

[zunshynn]

I would be willing to wish them a happy solstice, but I think I would be uncomfortable using the term blessed. Blessed is a highly sacred term in my opinion, and I would have trouble using outside of a catholic understanding of it.

[Socrates]

I'd simply wish him a hearty "Merry Christmas!"

Why do anything otherwise?

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

i never wish anyone a happy anything if it has to do with another relegion.

[DemonSlayer]

If they're uncomfortable with Christmas, why bother saying anything to them about it?

Edited December 13, 2005 by DemonSlayer

[prose]

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. That is my faith. If they want to wish ME a Happy Yule or whatever, that is their decision, but as far as I am concerned, this is Christmas, no other holiday

(I mean that in the kindest way possible.)

[scardella]

I'd be surprised if most people who come from a Christian background and "fall away" rather than become militant against Christianity would not celebrate Christmas. It has a lot of inertia. So, unless they're blatantly wiccan, I'd go ahead and say "Merry Christmas! ho ho ho!"

[Socrates]

[quote name='DemonSlayer' date='Dec 12 2005, 08:30 PM']If they're uncomfortable with Christmas, why bother saying anything to them about it?
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Are we to avoid saying anything related to Christ on the grounds that it might make people "uncomfortable"??!!

What dark days are these!

[Cow of Shame]

would you think it would be ok to ask your black friends to not express their culture around you because you don't participate in any of it & it justs makes you "uncomfortable"?

[argent_paladin]

If I knew that someone was a practicing Jew, I would definitely wish them a happy Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashana, Chanukah, etc. If they were Chinese, then a Happy New Year. Now, with Islam and Wicca, I might not, but that is because they often have an anti-Christian flavor.
But, I wouldn't have a problem with wishing them a Merry Christmas. What I find silly is that people want to wish Jews a Channukah, not because they know or care about Jewish holidays but because they want to be culturally sensitive. It makes much more sense to with then a Merry Christmas and when Yom Kippur comes, wish them "An easy fast" (not a "happy Yom Kippur").
And I would never wish someone a happy Kwanzaa, because it is a made-up commie holiday.

But I would wish someone a "happy Festivus" and engage in Feats of Strength and the Airing of Grievances.

[Myles Domini]

'Merry Christmas' and nout else.

[zunshynn]

[quote]If I knew that someone was a practicing Jew, I would definitely wish them a happy Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashana,  Chanukah, etc. If they were Chinese, then a Happy New Year. Now, with Islam and Wicca, I might not, but that is because they often have an anti-Christian flavor. [/quote]

I've never met an anti-Christian Muslim, and there are scores of them where I live. In fact, many of them actively tried to have eBay remove the Eucharist from their auctions when that whole mess was going on. And now when people are going around desecrating the Qu'ran there are Christians saying there's no reason we should care.

Honestly... We go on about how people mock Catholicism, and how terrible it is (which it is) but refuse to give other faiths the same respect we'd like from them.

[quote]What I find silly is that people want to wish Jews a Channukah, not because they know or care about Jewish holidays but because they want to be culturally sensitive. [/quote]

I say Happy Chanukah because I care about their holidays, and I care about their holidays because I care about them, not because I care in the least about political correctness. Honestly, if a Muslim cares so much about giving my faith respect me to wish me a happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception, than I can pray for them during Ramadan too.

Edited December 13, 2005 by zunshynn

[toledo_jesus]

Tell them MErry Christmas. If they say, " I don't celebrate that" then say, "You want me to wish you had a really awful December 25th? Merry Christmas"

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

the anti-defemation leauge has a persecution complex.

[Socrates]

[quote name='Cow of Shame' date='Dec 13 2005, 01:43 PM']would you think it would be ok to ask your black friends to not express their culture around you because you don't participate in any of it & it justs makes you "uncomfortable"?
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What do you mean by "expressing their culture"?

Christmas is more than just cultural, but an expression of our Christian Faith. Christ came for all people, all cultures.
We are not supposed to hide our Faith under a bushel basket.

We need to seriously ask ourselves: would we be ready for the crown of martyrdom if we are scared to even mention Christ around non-Christians for fear of causing "discomfort"? (Or is it really our own discomfort we are cowardly avoiding?)

And, seriously, anyone who finds "Merry Christmas" so offensive has serious issues to begin with. Such "outrage" is anti-Christian, pure and simple.

And Wicca and similar neo-paganism are not genuine religious traditions, but modern-day reactions against Christ.

[Seven77]

'Season's Beatings!'

[homeschoolmom]

I don't know any "known" wiccans/pagans...

I supposed I'd just wish her a happy new year... maybe...