Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays

[TuckaMo]

Why is it that people can say “Happy Holidays” and not “Merry Christmas”? This bugs me because you can always say “Happy Kwanza” and “Happy Haunnakah” but not “Merry Christmas”.
When you delete such little details about God from our lives, we are just deleting him altogether.
Tell me if I am wrong, but if government want a seperation of Church and State, you can’t go around saying, “God Bless America” or call on him during times of trouble. It just bugs me… reply with any comments.

 

[Teen_Catholic]

Well there is probably quite a few reasons that “Merry Christmas” has become politcally incorrect. Probably quite a few minorities feel that we’re trying to force Christianity on them by saying “Merry Christmas”.

  Secondly, there are alot of people that just plain don't like Christians. If you've ever gone on any type of message board of than religious ones, you be surprised and how venemous these people can be. It would seem that anything remotely Christian or connected to Christianity enrages them beyond belief.

  But maybe, most of all it's because of the extreme hyper-sensitivity of this day and age. People are absolutely terrified of offending people, even if, as the case of this fiasco goes, people really aren't being offended.

  I really don't see why, Christmas has been secularized beyond belief, so that "CHRISTMAS" may be celebrated by all with so much as mentioning Jesus/Christ. Just ask your average second grade Canadian public school kids.

  Perhaps we should all be a little bugged, because it would seem that Christmas is going the way of the Pagan Holidays it usurped. The "Holiday's" have incorperated Christmas traditions, twisted them around so that they seem unreconisable, just as Christmas did to it's own assimilated holidays. All that you need to do is give it another name and by jove, you've got yourself another holiday!