Originally Posted by RubyPitbull
Worthbeads, most of us who engage in these threads are controversial at one time or another on this web site. Your post doesn't have anything to do with your apparent desire to proudly display your controversial nature. Your attempt to dictate how people should respond to you is rather Hitleresque in nature. Why shouldn't someone reply and tell you that you are a "racist pig" when it is obvious that is just what you are?
"Just be thankful we even let you into our country." Are you serious? Are you a Native American who converted to Christianity? Or, were you instrumental in the formation and organization of the country? Did you come over on the Mayflower? You didn't "let" me into this country. I was born here just as you were.
The people who founded this country were of a different Christianity than most of the more vocal Christian respondents on this thread. The majority of the founding fathers of the U.S. were Episcopalian/Anglican, followed by Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Quaker, Dutch Reformed/German Reformed, Lutheran, Catholic, Huguenot, Unitarian, Methodist, Calvinist. Puritans and Deists were among them.
Prior to the formation of the United States, not only were the original inhabitants NOT Christian (Native Americans), but the people who chose to leave their homelands behind and begin life in a harsh and unknown environment chose to do so as a direct result of being persecuted in their own countries for their beliefs.
Worthbeads (and others who have stated a desire that non-Christians leave the U.S.), why did your ancestors come to this country and not stay in their homeland? My ancestors were persecuted and murdered for their beliefs too. They chose this country due to the invitation that was made to them to live in a land where they would find freedom from religious persecution. So, all the mewling on this thread and others throughout this web site about how those of us who are not Christian should be thankful to Christians for allowing us to live in the U.S. is purely hate inspired garbage.
Your tired of...? What I am tired of are people who are intolerant of anyone who does not pray as they do and find that it is more appropriate to spread words of hate rather than love. I am tired of people who are so steeped in their hatred of others that they assume simply because someone wishes them a Happy Holiday that the person offering up a simple pleasantry this time of year, is purposefully trying to undermine Christmas and in so doing, assuming that person is trying to undermine their entire belief system. It is a very paranoid delusion. You don't like it when people in stores don't wish you a Merry Christmas? As DeMaria said much earlier on, let them know you disapprove by not shopping in their stores. But to verbally abuse people here, tell them they should leave this country because they don't want to say "Merry Christmas" because they do not celebrate it, is more than intolerant. It smacks of racism. Your sense of entitlement, along with Soldout's here on this thread, are figments of your fractured imaginations and meanderings.
The original post by Fallen2Grace asked for people's opinions. People gave their opinions. Why can't some individuals on this web site graciously accept that there will be differences of opinions and leave it at that instead of getting into a verbal dispute or choose to spew hateful garbage such as telling people to leave this country?
By the way, some people don't even think about the many different religious affiliations this time of year. They choose "Happy Holidays" to include not only Christmas (or Hannukah, Solstice, Kwanzaa, Festivus,...) but the New Year as well. Take the freaking chips off your shoulders already and recognize that people are merely offering up a different pleasantry this time of year instead of the usual "Have a nice day."
