{"id":504,"date":"2009-11-29T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/happy-holidays-how-sensitive-should-we-be\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T01:44:00","slug":"happy-holidays-how-sensitive-should-we-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/happy-holidays-how-sensitive-should-we-be\/","title":{"rendered":"“Happy Holidays?” How sensitive should we be?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
\nAre you a \u201cHappy Holiday\u2019s\u201d kind of person? After all, why offend? But consider this fact. The total number of \u201cnon-Christians\u201d in America add up to less than 10 million people, which is around three percent of the population, according to <\/span>Dinesh<\/span> D\u2019Souza<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\nWe know that many in the raw numbers of self-professing \u201cChristians\u201d are those those who really don\u2019t have a clue. But those who truly are \u201coffended\u201d at the Christian message are a very small minority.<\/span>\n

In terms of religious background, America is no more diverse today than it was in the 19th<\/span><\/sup> century. So is it really necessary to cow tail<\/span> to secularists? To keep things nice for those who don\u2019t share our way of faith?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During Christmas, we are extra careful with our \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d and winter wonderlands. We are ultra sensitive<\/span> to those that don\u2019t believe, changing our messages and our actions to be kind to those who don\u2019t believe. And how about work? Most of us are especially cautious here, making sure our words don\u2019t constitute<\/span> \u201charassment\u201d of any sort.<\/span>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nHere\u2019s the question. Should the true Christian, the walking, talking Red Letter Believer, be more concerned about speaking the truth, or more concerned about speaking it in love? What\u2019s your opinion? Or is Christmas so commercialized that none of this matters?<\/span>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Comment here.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\"Merry\n<\/div>\n
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