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01 January 2008
Happy Holidays!
I will not wish everyone a "Happy New Year", as that may be offensive to some, and it is decidedly religiously insensitive and politically INcorrect.
I could, of course,
wish the pagans a happy Janus day.
The Christians a Happy Circumcision and St Basil's Day
And the secularists a Happy New Year
But wishing everyone a "Happy New Year" is showing religious prejudice and insensitivity.
A happy circumcision? An exciting male genital mutilation? A joyous destruction of genitalia? A pleasurable sexual torture?
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeletePerhaps a little like "Good" Friday.
How can an unjust execution be "good"?