B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 19, 2017

Yep! With the ACLU & the PC crowd, this is what it is coming to.

Sad times indeed, when the very spirit of Christmas is destroyed by “politically correct” jackasses

If you feel tingly, see a doctor.

I wonder if this is a heads-up that they are dropping Johnny’s traditional twice a year religious themed strips? While I have never been a fan of someone pushing their views on religion at me, twice a year on days that for much of the audience was a day based, at least in theory, on religion was something I could tolerate and quite often enjoy because of how he did his strips for those occasions.

If no one else will say it I will. Merry Christmas to all.

Christmas has ceased to be a religious holiday. You will note that the zealots who speak out against it love Black Friday and the Holiday-Whose-Name-We_Cannot-Mention shopping season.

Perhaps we should do away with celebrating it altogether along with all the commercialism – economic stimulus if you will – that goes along with it. Also remove it as a holiday from our calendar. That’s one more day of productivity for American Business and what’s good for American Business is good for the USA.

It is more of a secular holiday then a religious one, but it does encourage some people to be more generous to charities and to feel compelled to treat other people a bit less harshly and maybe even tolerate them or, Diety-Whose-Name-We_Cannot-Mention, forbid compassion.

Bah! Humbug! and to all a good night.

Riding the fence for long periods for no reason, brings rosy cheeks to celebrate the season

Well, now, December 25th as Christ’s birthday is not biblically based. There’s no indication in the two books of the bible that mention Christ’s birth (Matthew and Luke) of the actual day, unless you count the bit about Ceasar Augustus’ calling for a tax.

Anyway…The first time the birth of Jesus Christ was attributed to the date December 25 was in the 4th century, according to early Roman history. Early celebrations of Christmas are thought to have derived from Roman and other European festivals that marked the end of the harvest, and the winter solstice.

Some customs from those celebrations that have endured include decorating homes with greenery, giving gifts, singing songs, and eating special foods.

Every winter, Romans honored the pagan god Saturn, the god of agriculture, with a festival that began on December 17 and usually ended on or around December 25 with a winter-solstice celebration in honor of the beginning of the new solar cycle. This festival was a time of merrymaking, and families and friends would exchange gifts.

After the Roman Emperor Constantine I converted to Christianity in 312 and sanctioned Christianity, church leaders made efforts to appropriate the winter-solstice holidays and thereby achieve a more seamless conversion to Christianity for the emperor’s subjects.

This is the Christmas season and that is what we are celebrating!Whether you like it or not, whether you believe in Christmas or not! Whether you agree or not!MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!

…And let’s face it: who cares how other people celebrate a holiday? Most of the Christmas traditions came from pagan rituals and have nothing to do with Jesus Christ. Most popular “Christmas songs” don’t even mention him (Christmas Carols, of course, by definition, do).

Me, personally? I LOVE the idea of a gift-giving season, and even though I’m a Christian, I don’t try to associate Christmas with Jesus. We should be “peace on earth, good will towards men” all year round anyway. But at least we think about it once a year.

Same with Thanksgiving. We should give thanks EVERY FREAKIN’ DAY. But at least we do it once a year.

Same with Independence Day, Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day…those are all things we should appreciate all year, every day. I think it says great things for us as people that we set aside time each year to do so—we’re acknowledging that if we don’t set aside that time, even important things will get lost in the shuffle…

I HATE VOMITING WHEN I HAVEN’T HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK.

It’s Festivus for the rest of us .

I always use “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”

Not because of “political correctness,” but because it makes the idiots who worry about the “war on christmas” throw a temper tantrum.

Boo

MARRY CHRISTMAS!! – there, I said it.

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It’s a good thing we bears are atheists. (Unless we’re worshipping our great bear gods who live in the heavens of Ursa Major)

Ah, the “war on Christmas” whine. I’m sorry about your establishmentarian frustration, but those of us who are secure in our beliefs don’t feel bad if someone says Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays, or Happy Yule, or Merry Solstice, or whatever. Everyone has their own reasons for the season, yours notwithstanding.

No matter what…someone will figure out a reason to be offended!And that offends me!

For what it’s worth, I have never personally run into anyone discouraging me from saying Merry Christmas, and it seems that I hear it often enough at the businesses that I go to. We didn’t put up our Christmas tree at work this year, but that’s more from being overworked, understaffed, and generally distracted.

I don’t doubt that there are places where people are discouraged from having Christmasy decorations at their desks, and have to be careful of saying anything with even remotely religious implications, but not every place is like that.

Too late. You have.

Have a Happy Christmas and an epic new year, or shut the hell up.

So sick of people acting like other people were attacking Christmas.

HAPPY KWANZA!

how dares he wish me a happy holiday. Who told you I wanted a happy holiday

I cannot understand why so many of you are so hateful. There is no reason for it.

Johnny Hart would deliberately say “Merry Christmas”.

Almost exactly two years ago: “Just give me all your eggnog.” http://www.gocomics.com/bc/2015/12/22

I’m an atheist and I dont “do” offended. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and whatever else applies.

I’m so broke this year it’s scary, my family has mostly all passed away, the rest I haven’t seen or hear from in decades. Christmas is a wonderful holiday to remind everyone to appreciate the wonders that God has given us, and the love that surrounds us. But it’s NOT THE ONLY HOLIDAY.

I decided that, since Christmas is kind of painful right now, I would simply wish everyone a HAPPY HOLIDAY. After all there are so many, but I’m not celebrating any of them. Today I’m not celebrating OATMEAL MUFFIN DAY. Saturday I (sadly, tragically) did not celebrate NATIONAL CHOCOLATE COVERED ANYTHING DAY. I won’t be celebrating the Solstice, Festivus, National Eggnog Day, and many others. It’s fun!!

The only problem has been the distinct lack of “War on Christmas” trolls to laugh at. Ah, well, the month isn’t over yet.

I work with the public, and I haven’t been giving anyone well-wishes for any holiday. I just tell them to “have a nice day”. If they, however, tell me ‘Merry Christmas’, I will respond with ‘Merry Christmas’. If they tell me ‘Happy Holidays’, I will respond with ‘Happy Holidays.’ I’m not offended, they’re not offended, no problems.

if you don’t like ’ Merry Christmas ’ how about ’ Happy Birthday Jesus ’? yeah!!…He was born …. https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-star-of-bethlehem/