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Originally Posted by photon
Even if Christmas wasn't a cultural holiday (and I think it very much is), why would I be offended by someone using words appropriate for the holiday, related to the history of that holiday?
"Merry Christmas" doesn't offend me. "Happy Easter" doesn't either even though I don't believe in either the Easter bunny or Ishtar.
Happy Halloween is fine even though I don't believe in ghosts or demons.
I also wouldn't be offended by Happy Hanukkah despite not being Jewish.
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That's pretty much what I figured, I've never heard of Jewish or Muslim or athiests being offended by it either. I wonder where this whole PC thing came from to begin with- maybe marketing departments of retailers didn't want to exclude anyone.