Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Whole Shebang [View All]

[YoungDemocrat]

A lot of very angry things have been said about the Merry Christmas/Season's Greetings/Happy Holidays business, also a lot of funny things but you'll forgive me for sticking to the angry. There are apparently two sides to this non-issue and both are pretty extreme. There's the bible-thumping right wingers with righteous anger leaking from every pore and insist that quoting scripture and saying Merry Christmas is not enough and that storefronts should be stocked with holy water attached to a string that gives people entering suprise baptismals. On the other side we see the shrill hyper-secularists who are certainly misrepresented by the right-wingers but whom I find fault with nonetheless. I say "apparently" because I think that most people, the reasonable ones on both sides of the aisle who don't get to speak out much because they aren't quite partisan enough. The words, "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" are not tools of conversion and I hope that any person with faith is strong enough to not have it changed by two words. "Oh! Merry Christmas? I'd never thought of it like that before, maybe Judaism isn't so hot after all, tell you what, I'm ditching this menorah." Nah, doesn't happen like that. In short, Christians saying Merry Christmas are wishing for you to be happy with the holiday season and could care less if you were Christian (for the most part) and people wishing "Happy Holidays" aren't slamming Christ or trying to burn down your church they are wishing for you to be happy with the holiday season.