Ok lets start talking w/a controversial topic!

i forgot to add that when we have children we are def celebrating Christmas and Santa - just because im not religious i dont think i should take away the spirit of the holidays and santa from my kids

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Posted by melonhead

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Posted by Snowflake08


i think that happy holidays is the appropriate thing to say - otherwise it is quite presumptuous that everyone you are serving is christian

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well that's my whole point. I'm not assuming they're christian, nor am i christian, but if it's Dec 24, I'm wishing you a happy Christmas. I'm 99% sure you're off from work tomorrow, so enjoy it!
EVERYTHING closes for christmas. I feel that for people who are NOT christian/catholic, they would want to celebrate too, since everyone is off

If it's only for Christians, than why does the whole USA basically close on Dec 25?
Passover is a religious holiday, yet nothing is closed for it.

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things are closed because MOST of the world celebrates it
MOST of the world does NOT celebrate Passover
of course christmas is for christians
if you live near me, the jewish owned business are open on dec 25 and CLOSED on ALL jewish holidays AND every saturday

we live in the tri state area, with a large Jewish population
in most other states, schools are NOT closed for the jewish holidays as they are here

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Posted by Snowflake08

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Posted by melonhead

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Posted by Snowflake08


i think that happy holidays is the appropriate thing to say - otherwise it is quite presumptuous that everyone you are serving is christian

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well that's my whole point. I'm not assuming they're christian, nor am i christian, but if it's Dec 24, I'm wishing you a happy Christmas. I'm 99% sure you're off from work tomorrow, so enjoy it!
EVERYTHING closes for christmas. I feel that for people who are NOT christian/catholic, they would want to celebrate too, since everyone is off

If it's only for Christians, than why does the whole USA basically close on Dec 25?
Passover is a religious holiday, yet nothing is closed for it.

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things are closed because MOST of the world celebrates it
MOST of the world does NOT celebrate Passover
of course christmas is for christians
if you live near me, the jewish owned business are open on dec 25 and CLOSED on ALL jewish holidays AND every saturday

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ok so you kept saying the most of the world celebrates Christmas. I honestly did not realize the difference between all of the religions. Look what I found:

1) Christians - 2,116,909,552 (which includes 1,117,759,185 Roman Catholics, 372,586,395 Protestants, 221,746,920 Orthodox, and 81,865,869 Anglicans)
2) Muslims - 1,282,780,149
3) Hindus - 856,690,863
4) Buddhists - 381,610,979
5) Sikhs - 25,139,912
6) Jews - 14,826,102

And...

a) Others - 814,146,396
b) Non-Religious - 801,898,746
c) Atheists - 152,128,701

(from about.com)

As a teacher, I'm all for closing ALL religous holidays, any religion!

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Posted by Snowflake08

we live in the tri state area, with a large Jewish population
in most other states, schools are NOT closed for the jewish holidays as they are here

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i had no idea!!!

right
so there are other religions however there are more christians as one group than any other ONE single group of religious people

there may be more of 'others' combined; however they are not in the 'western' world
buddhists, muslim, hidu etc are mostly in asia

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Posted by Snowflake08

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things are closed because MOST of the world celebrates it

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i don't actually have any facts, but i'm pretty sure that's very untrue. Not sure, though. Does anyone have #s?



EDIT: never mind, i see them! :)

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Posted by ant n tilde

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Posted by Snowflake08

we live in the tri state area, with a large Jewish population
in most other states, schools are NOT closed for the jewish holidays as they are here

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i had no idea!!!

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yup - its a fact

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Posted by ant n tilde

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Posted by Snowflake08

we live in the tri state area, with a large Jewish population
in most other states, schools are NOT closed for the jewish holidays as they are here

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i had no idea!!!

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I lived in Atlanta for 3 years after college. Most people down there are either first or southern baptist. But anyway, there's like, no jewish ppl. When the friends I made down there found out I was jewish I became like a museum exhibit. They has so many questions because it was this rare thing....they never had off from school on jewish holidays. The only one they'd even heard of was hanukkah but only because it usually happened right around christmas. It was actually kind of funny.

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Posted by melonhead

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Posted by Snowflake08

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things are closed because MOST of the world celebrates it

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i don't actually have any facts, but i'm pretty sure that's very untrue. i think much more of the world are Jewish than Catholic. Not sure, though. Does anyone have #s?

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do you really think there are more Jewish people than christian
have you noticed the ONE display of chanukah items in a store as opposed to the AISLES AND AISLES of christmas merchandise??

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Posted by Future Mulligan

i forgot to add that when we have children we are def celebrating Christmas and Santa - just because im not religious i dont think i should take away the spirit of the holidays and santa from my kids

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I dunno... I think my issue w/this person in particular is that she's outspoken about being anti-religion and implies that ppl that do believe in something (christianity, judiasm, ANYTHING) are naive and stupid. Makes me want to shove a christmas tree right up her athiest a$$.

i know in italy my cousins were like wow did you ever meet a jewish person? they are ALL roman catholic

may i just say i <3 NY! how blessed are we to be surrounded by all different kinds of people!!

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Posted by ant n tilde

i know in italy my cousins were like wow did you ever meet a jewish person? they are ALL roman catholic

may i just say i <3 NY! how blessed are we to be surrounded by all different kinds of people!!

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wow that is weird
the first temple was built in rome
im italian - jewish

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Posted by Snowflake08
have you noticed the ONE display of chanukah items in a store as opposed to the AISLES AND AISLES of christmas merchandise??

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well, i was talking about the world, not long island and USA. i haven't actually done any Xmas shopping in the Middle East, for example.

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Posted by ant n tilde

i know in italy my cousins were like wow did you ever meet a jewish person? they are ALL roman catholic

may i just say i <3 NY! how blessed are we to be surrounded by all different kinds of people!!

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i agree
especially living in queens and being exposed to ALL types of people
i love it!!

I love having Jewish friends b/c I really enjoy a lot of the traditional foods. Is that wrong?? Am I using my friend for latkes??

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Posted by Smiley7092

LOL that is pretty funny that she celebrates christmas even though she believes in NOTHING. I think I am personally more agnostic than anything, I'm not really sure what to believe in, I do think there is something though!

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same here. lol i guess she just wants gifts lol I dont do it for the whole religion thing...i celebrate a day with my family, and happy to see us all atogether and open gifts lol