A few minutes ago I received an e-mail from the Hilton Hotel in St. Louis. The account manger wanted me to review the banquet charges for a conference that a few of our workers attended last week. After reviewing the 2 invoices I gave the o.k. to bill the company credit card. He then replied "Happy Holidays to you and we hope to be of service to you again in the future." I replied "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year to you" I also attached a "Who is Jesus" Bible tract in pdf format for him to read. I was glad to be able to share the Gospel with him and I didn't even have to leave the house (working from home now).
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Yes, because clearly the reason he didn't wish you a merry Christmas is because he didn't know who Jeebus was. Sure, it wasn't the policy of the owner, or the chain, or perhaps he was a Jew or some other religion, or that he a Christian who doesn't make a big deal about the season or maybe they don't celebrate it at this time of year.
You really are an arrogant prick, aren't you. I don't think Jeebus goes for that kind of arrogance.
Promise that you won't ever stop being repetitive and won't ever stop wagging your tail. It's good practice for when you'll have an eternity of being repetitive er...soon. Also, it makes you so much more superior than the rest of us. Your smugness glows like a holy aura. You need to congratulate yourself if you already haven't. By the way, who is Jesus? I've never heard of him before. Sounds interesting though, could you send me information. Thanks.
Yeah, cause that person totally was all over reading some strange pdf from a loony Jesus botherer. If only this pathetic lunatic also lacked internet access, then they could keep all their nuttery in their own household.
At least all the dickish "it's CHRISTMAS, how dare you wish me a happy holiday!" bullshit is over for another year... They'll still be dicks, though, sure enough.
and I didn't even have to leave the house (working from home now).
Jesus must be feeling silly that he went to all that effort to travel around Judea and end up being crucified. He could have just waited 2000 years and done the whole salvation thingy from his home office.
Silly Jesus.
Always amazes me when Christians approach you and "tell you about Jesus" as though you've never heard of him before. This country has been a Christian country for at least 1000 years, and is full of churches. Even if the people here never go to church, they at least know about Jesus from Christmas and Easter. And yet they still knock on your door and talk to you about Christianity as though you've never heard of it before.
He then replied "Happy Holidays to you and we hope to be of service to you again in the future." I replied "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year to you" I also attached a "Who is Jesus" Bible tract in pdf format for him to read.
Yes, because he hasn't heard that "Jesus is the reason for the season." before. He's never had someone proselytize him via email until you came along.[img]http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-rolleyes008.gif[/img]
He deleted your little pdf.
"Who is Jesus"
Jesus is on first.
@Malingspann :
"Oh no, the outfield is flooded"!
"Don't worry, Jesus can still walk".
He probably said Happy Holidays for the following reasons
He did not know you are a Christian
He himself may not have been a Christian
there is more than one holiday during that time of year. Christmas is just one. And not everyone celebrates it
He probably skimmed if he read it at all, your email and deleted it. I doubt he even opened the PDF
I also attached a "Who is Jesus" Bible tract in pdf format
Uggh! The "f" in PDF stands for "format", so please don't say "PDF format". It's stupidly redundant. Like when people say "TGIF-Friday". It hurts.
He then replied "Happy Holidays to you and we hope to be of service to you again in the future."
I wonder what her reaction would have been if he had originally written: "Peace be with you and we hope to be of service to you again in the future, Allahu Akbar!"
I was glad to be able to share the Gospel with him
Never mind that he may have been a non-Christian whom you think needed to hear the Gospel. Sending him a Christian Bible tract to attack and criticize his religious beliefs would be offensive enough. A born-again Christian who would be equally offended by your implying that you were a better Christian than he and that he needed your holier-than-thou help in his worship. Or he may have said "happy holidays" because he didn't know whether you were Christian or not, and you came across as rudely correcting him.
Leave selling to professionals. That includes the Gospel. You don't make friends for your cause by pissing people off.
@ checkmate :
You shouldn't touch files in PDF format, you might catch the HIV virus.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to make a withdrawal from the ATM machine and I need to look up my personal PIN number.
I find it a bit odd that these Christians at Rapture Ready are so for capitalism, but get worked up when someone says, "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."
It seems as though they cannot put two and two together to understand that in a big luxury hotel chain, who receives customers of all faiths, will naturally say "Happy Holidays" to include as many people as they can.
I'm Christian, and I don't fall apart if people don't wish me a "Merry Christmas" and instead wish me a "Happy Holidays."
"And the answer is... He's the god-baby that's been propping up hierarchies from the Byzantine Empire, to Feudalism, to the Western class structure of the present day."
"Who is Jesus. I'll take Sock Puppets for 800, Alex."
God Damn lady, just because he said "Happy Holidays" doesn't mean that he wasn't Christian! Hell, I was Catholic for 12 years and I still said Happy Holidays. It's called common courtesy, you dumb twat.
Insult to Rocks wrote:
...just because he said "Happy Holidays" doesn't mean that he wasn't Christian! Hell, I was Catholic for 12 years and I still said Happy Holidays.
Er, Catholics aren't regarded as Christians at RR...strictly Proddie only over there. Their 'Modern Cults' forum is almost entirely devoted to criticizing Catholicism.
You really showed him, you badass you...
Dearie, EVERY SINGLE ADULT PERSON in the Western world knows who Jesus was, and quite a few in the rest of the world know as well.
If you work from home, you don't have to say "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year to you" to hundreds, maybe thousands, of people each day, so you can afford to say the whole shebang this once. The account manager does have to say it hundreds of times a day, so he has streamlined it into "Happy Holidays", as the message is exactly the same , just shorter.
He will probably just throw your pdf into the wastepaper basket and think you're an oddball.
@ Swede
It's the Information Age, today's youth and adults are well aware of who Jesus is. I personally reject what is in the Bible precisely because I know what it says from the first page to the last, if more Christians would read the Bible from beginning the end instead of listening to others interpret it for them in a church many of them would reject it too. There is a big-time problem of functional illiteracy in the United States and many Americans have inadequate reading comprehension, which doesn't make them any more capable of comprehending the King James version of the Bible in archaic English.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/
According to Professors of Theology (and thus by definition, know more about your beliefs than you lot at Ruptured Retards do), Jesus was born in September .
PROTIP: Christmas is simply the Pagan Winter Solstice Festival stolen by the Christian Church; so bereft of it's own history & culture, it was reduced to breaking it's own 8th Commandment.
...oh, and attachments can simply be deleted , unopened. So there's all your efforts for naught, Germi(IQ)7.
Happy Pagan Holidays, and see you in 2014 . And 2015, 2016, 2017...! [/rubbing salt into wound] >:D
Because, you know, if you´re not persecuted(not the feed to the lions variety, but just noticing that your Brand of religion is slightly less popular than before), you´re not a real Christian. However, being a complete lazy person in spreading the Gospel "from home"(by the way, how do you know that your "proselytism" was effective?), is ok. Whatever.
As stupid as this proselytism is I think this "happy holidays" rubbish that supposedly occurs in america is more stupid and political correctness at its worst. The holiday is Christmas and calling it that is not offensive to non Christians, its just being honest. I live in Australia (supposedly a much less religious country than the us) where everyone says "merry Christmas" all the time and no one gives a flying fuck. What lunatics in america think this is somehow offensive?
“As stupid as this proselytism is I think this "happy holidays" rubbish that supposedly occurs in america is more stupid and political correctness at its worst.”
There are, what, 14 religious holidays between Thanksgiving and mid-January. Saying ‘happy holidays’ is inclusive of all of them, without pretending that only one counts.
It’s PC at its best, because a person would have to go out of their way to be offended by me saying, “I hope you enjoy Christmas AND Hanukkah AND Kwanza AND Solstice AND International Ninja Day AND whatever else you observe, practice, or celebrate.”
Confused?
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