It’s Okay to Say Merry Christmas–Just Not to ME

I love it when people try to legislate what comes out of (or goes in, for that matter!) my mouth. Grr! While your religious ideas (or lack thereof) and mine aren't in the same zip code, good grief, I'm not going to sue you for saying "Happy Holidays" to me. And I might even be nice enough to pick up your FRF membership card from the dirty floor and hand it back to you.

I read a blurb a while ago about a town – in Texas, I must add – that encouraged the use of "heaveno" instead of "hello". Oh, good grief!

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It's supposed to be the Good News, not the Forced-Fed News.

I think Jesus would seriously be pissed if he saw what man has made the day, honoring His birth, out to be.

Just because I'm a Christian, doesn't mean I should persecute you for NOT being one.

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I have to admit, I haven't noticed anyone being upset about someone saying Merry Christmas to anyone, but the only people I've seen spun up about Happy Holidays are on Fox New and similar consumed-with-manufactured-slights spots.

I couldn't care less what people celebrate (or fail to). I've friends that celebrate Yule, Hannukah, Christmas and…nothing, except his birthday which happens to be December 25 – which he celebrates by visiting his folks in India.

Even if they passed such useless distracting legislation (haha, not likely), it wouldn't be constitutional. It's just more nonsense to distract us from the real work the government should be doing.

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I grew up Christian and I hate Christmas. I would love if people would stop it… especially people in stores who don't even know me. And Happy Holidays really doesn't make me feel any better.

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It's interesting that there's such a backlash against "happy holidays" this year. Then again, I work for a company that had a Christmas-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa party overseen by an Integration Committee and some people still weren't happy. Some felt left out; others felt too spotlighted. I chose to focus on the goodwill of my company for providing food and wine and the fact that after the party I was free to go home and celebrate however I chose with my friends and family.

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I love this!! Even I, who normally love Christmas, get tired of the bs politicians try to pass for no good reason. Really, we need a law to do this? They couldn't have been off working on hate crime or health care or something??

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I feel the same way about people trying to stifle me. I have an idea. How 'bout you do your thing & I do mine & we'll just get along? Can we try that?

I make it a point to say "Happy Holidays". I don't intend it to have any undertone, meaning, or hint other than "this is a festive time of year & I hope it is a happy time for you, whichever way you do or don't celebrate anything."

We are Christians and we don't make a big thing out of Christ & Christmas. It seems false & weird to me, since I don't really know what the pagan tree, or Santa Claus, or presents, or cookies or any of the other things we do have to do with Christ. I think it did at one time in history –> but we aren't Catholic anyway. We don't worship Saints (they're just dead people) and we don't feel a need to commemorate Christ's birth especially, since we also don't worship Mary (she's just another dead person) so that part of his life is relatively unimportant.

Wow, I've probably managed to offend half the population of the world. See? We should all just do what we want.

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This is my first time to your site and I am a little uncomfortable. Not because you do not DO Christmas but because you seem to loath it. Ben Stein once said that although he did not DO Christmas that the good will shown during the holiday season is infectious. It is a time to be better people. It is a time to help others a little more then we usually do.

I understand your annoyance over most stores being closed on the holidays. One thing to think about is who would work on Christmas. People are entitled to celebrate their own holidays. I think that many retailers would have trouble finding employees to work on Christmas.

I am sorry that the holidays have been an inconvenience to you. On the bright side of things it will be another whole year until the world shuts down again for one day! Enjoy your new year!

Becca

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Feeling testy, eh? Well me too and I am a Christian. But this holiday hyperbole is getting on my last nerve and for Pete's sake does it need to go on for more than a month. It doesn't offend me when anyone greets me nicely with just about any salutation, but I've had that headache with the bell ringing and it is not pretty.
I act on my beliefs everyday, not just during the "holidays".

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Right after reading this I went to XKCD to catch up on some comics and found this one: http://www.xkcd.com/679/. Thought you'd like it.

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My phrase this season was "good grief" I said it when I tried to pick up a prescription at Target and there were no carts left to strap the 2 year old into. I said it when I went to the grocery store and half the isles were covered top to bottom with all kinds of useless crap that will either make you fat or take up space in your home. I said it so much that the 2 year old kept telling her sisters "good grief!" anytime things didn't go her way.

It's not that I dislike Christmas or Kwanza or Hanukkah or whatever. I just can't stand the way it's pandered to my children, shoved down my throat and totally exploited. Get over it. I end up thinking just get over it, get on with your holidays and let this be done already.

But I couldn't just stand by another year and let this roll. This year we celebrated Hanukkah for the first time. Each night we lit the candles and said the prayers and then we did a mitzvah together as a family. We stood together as a family and made things better for people around us. Even the 10 year old loved it. The husband got involved. I'm telling you the way it made us drop all this crap and think about the bigger picture was awesome. Our Hanukkah made our Christmas feel better too. It wasn't about all the crap. It was about family. I don't know about you guys, but we needed that re-focus and it was damn nice.

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