[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by onetwo_threefour

^^^ Absolutely. Frankly, if I wish you a Merry Christmas, I'm being somewhat fake, if you think that's what really mean. What I really mean is that I hope you have a good holiday with your loved ones some time in the next few weeks, since I don't believe in God and have no reason to celebrate the alleged birth of his Son. I am as likely to say Happy Holidays as Merry Christmas, but why should I presume to know what holiday tradition you celebrate when I give you a greeting? My view is that people should offer the greeting that refelcts his/her cultural or religious tradition and anyone who doesn't like it should get over him/herself. I don't really care whether schools and government offices use Merry Christmas as a greeting since I think the view is pretty widely held that Christmas has become more cultural than religious in this day and age, but I certainly don't object to a school attempting to be sensitive to the reality that many of its students will not relate to Christmas and removing it from the 'program' is quite justifiable in my opinion.

I agree with you 100%.
Why? Because that's a perfectly reasonable attitude.
I say Merry Christmas, but I don't care if stores and schools call it winter hollidays. What I think is stupid is people who get all up in arms and offended either way, be it the anti-Christmas (in name only) or the "It's a war on Christmas" type.
Honestly more people need to lighten up and just enjoy themselves. Not everyone is trying to shove everything down your throat, they're just going about their own lives.