Who believes that The word Merry 'Christmas' has two very different meanings?

To make the point that we shouldn’t use the same words to mean different things. For anyone who works with ideas, clarity of language is absolutely essential. Ideas have consequences.

Whenever the same word comes to mean two radically different things, how can we wind up with anything other than confusion, hurt feelings, and social controversy? Politics are, of course, full of words that used to mean one thing and now mean something else. €œWelfareâ€?

, which ought to be about helping people, now means something that doesn’t have much to do with helping anybody. Our “national defense� Spending is now international and far beyond mere defense.

The word “Christmas� , I would suggest, has suffered the same fate. Christmas was declared a Federal holiday in 1870, through legislation signed by President Ulysses S.

Grant. The bill mentioned only four holidays by name: New Year’s Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Throwing ... more.

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