Why do Christians say I am bashing Christmas if I say I celebrate Yule and greet

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others by saying Happy Yule? instead of Merry Christmas?

I celebrate Yule... I do not celebrate Christmas. My family does though. I help them by doing the cooking for their celebrations and helping with the clean up so they can take time to have a restful holiday. No one helps me with Yule but that is okay because I am the only one who celebrates it and frankly I don't need the help.

Christians outside of my family act like I am trying to take christmas away from them when I wish them a Happy Yule. I don't care what they celebrate and they wish me a Merry Christmas. I don't get butt hurt when they do that... I in turn wish them a Happy Yule because that is my holy day. Then they act like I am trying to pi$$ in their eggnog. Why???
 
Mostly because most Christians (although not all) don't want to be reminded that more than Their holiday falls around the same time.
 
I hear you. They're the first to cry "persecuted" if a school, business, etc. decides to use "season's greetings" over "merry Christmas", but they'll be the first to turn up their noses at other people's celebrations.
 
Well as Yule is actually the Scandinavian word for Christmas and has been for over 900 years, I don't see that it makes any difference.

Of course, you might be one of those modern pagans who have no respect for this Scandinavian tradition and have taken over the name for their newly invented "Yule" festival. In that case, I can quite see how people might be offended.

Yes, I know pre-Christian Vikings used to hold "Yule" (winter) feasts - a great warrior get together. According to the great Viking sagas, the first Christian king moved his Yule feast to Christmas (from, I believe , Dec 14th though "Yule" could be held any time in winter). He did it to honour Christ. The Norse adopted Christmas and ever since then, Yule has meant Christmas.
 
Again not all are like that. Those who are are probably that way to everyone, not just you. They think we are trying to desecrate their Holy day, but since our YULE is on the 21/22 and theirs is around the 24th, they shouldn't care. I have never had that problem, so I guess I am lucky there.
 
Christians stole Yule from you. You should tell them to take a hike. It was your holiday first.
 
Because their present giving, money spending, holiday of greed is too pure to desecrate with any other name that doesn't involve Christ.
 
An oversized and undeserved sense of entitlement. They feel like they're the only ones who have a right to celebrate the season since they're the majority. You're not bashing Christmas, nor are you trying to "take away" anything from them.

You don't celebrate Christmas, but don't get bent out of shape when someone wishes you "Merry Christmas". You wishing them a Happy Yule is a similar greeting. You're just wanting them to have a happy holiday season, even if you don't celebrate the same one.

I don't get worked up over such things, personally. I generally say; "Happy Holidays" out of recognition that there are a number of holidays in December and not everyone celebrates the same one or for the same reason. It'd be rude of me to presume everyone celebrates Christmas when there's Yule, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa out there. And probably others I either don't know about or am forgetting.

I don't expect folks to respond in kind, and don't particularly freak if someone says Merry Christmas or Happy Yule. They're just greeting me the way they greet people according to the holiday they celebrate. Yule happens to be yours, Christmas happens to be theirs. Doesn't upset me one way or another.

But some people just can't take the fact that they don't have a monopoly on the world, its souls, religions, or holidays, so if someone doesn't greet them according to the season THEY think should be celebrated, they piss and moan about it.
 
Because these are people who actually think that not being shown FAVORITISM is "persecution". Christians just have a HUGE persecution complex. That's just the way they are.
 
"Pi$$ in their eggnog" - I lol'd

I know what you mean. I have a lot of those christians where I live that go to those churches where people scream, shout, speak in "tongues". Some told me they were praying for me (I was badly injured recently). I tell them thanks, and I appreciate the thought and let it go. If I were to mention Yule, they'd look at me like I grew two heads. I mentioned Samhain and that's what happened.
Some people are just overly sensitive to things. Occasionally judgmental as well.
I'll wish you a happy Yule!
 
Christmas is nothing to do with either Christianity or Islam but it does have it's origins in the midwinter festival and many other basically pagan rites but since much of it is a celebration of nature rather than religion everyone should be able to enjoy it and be happy together despite religion!

The ancient European pagans celebrated the midwinter festival and a number of other festivals long before Christianity ever existed!

Babylonians celebrated the feast of the Son of Isis with gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift giving and the goddess of fertility, love, and war.

The Romans held a festival on 25 December called “Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, celebrating their own god Sol Invictas – PAGAN!

The Persian god Mithras, the Syrian sun god Elah Gabal, the German Sol, the Greek Helios and the Mesopotamian Shamash. But also Saturnalia, honouring Saturn, the God of Agriculture. The law courts and schools were closed. No public business could be transacted an this is where the holidays originated - ALL PAGAN!

Wax tapers were given by the more humble to their superiors. The origin of the Christmas candle - PAGAN!

In Rome groups of costumed went from house to house entertaining their people. And this was where the carolling Christmas tradition originated PAGAN!

Statues of the Mother and lover or Mother and son were paraded through the streets not only in Italy but also in Africa, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Bulgaria. Thus, the symbolism of the Heavenly Virgin and the infant child paraded on a yearly basis are not of Christian origin. They stem from the Mother-goddess religion, which is very ancient ENTIRELY PAGAN!

Scandinavian countries celebrated Yule honouring Thor – PAGAN!

In Germania (not Germany) they celebrated midwinter night followed by 12 wild nights of eating and drinking. The 12 days of Christmas PAGAN!

The church under Pope Julius I declared that Christ’s birth would be celebrated on December 25 in 350 AD in order to try to hijack the PAGAN festivals but it was largely ignored. Christians did not really celebrate Christmas until 378 but it was then dropped in 381 and not resurrected until 400.

The Christmas tree stems from pagan tradition and ritual surrounding the Winter Solstice, which included the use of holly boughs ivy and other foliage as an adaptation of pagan tree worship. Holly and ivy represented male and female. Mistletoe was considered a sacred plant, and the custom of kissing under the mistletoe began as a fertility ritual - all PAGAN!

Santa Claus came from the Dutch “Sinterklaas” and was a tall figure riding a white horse through the air and usually accompanied by Black Peter, an elf who punished disobedient children. Also the origin of the reindeer, sleigh and the elves ALL PAGAN!

The modern red coated Santa was brought about by coca cola!

AMERICA ACTUALLY BANNED CHRISTMAS several times and is the originator of the expression “Happy Holidays” which came about because of the pagan origins of Christmas to include all religions and traditions!

The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!

Christmas is the time of year christians strive to prove just how pagan they have become
 
Christians stole Yule from you. You should tell them to take a hike. It was your holiday first.
 
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