Tuesday, December 23, 2008

"Merry Christmas" vs "Happy Holidays"

Have you ever noticed how people are afraid to wish you a "Merry Christmas" these days? Political correctness has taken away the real meaning of the day, has kept us from celebrating it properly or openly...and has us all afraid to wish each other "Merry Christmas" without offending someone. We wouldn't want to wish someone a "Merry Christmas" and have them be Jewish or an Atheist or something like that. I think that if we can't celebrate Christmas for what it is, perhaps those who want to de-Christianize Christmas and just make it another day should not celebrate it. If you don't believe in Christmas, don't celebrate it. That also means, don't get the day off. If Christmas is just another day, the treat it as such. I get tired of hearing people complain about Nativity scenes in the wrong locations, no Christmas parties in school, no religious Christmas songs in school. We even created holidays just to include other people. No one ever heard of Kwanzaa until we had to include another group. We even make sure the Muslim holidays are brought in. Now, the Christmas season is truly getting turned into the "Holiday Season", because we celebrate every holiday we have invented and minimized Christmas except for the shopping aspect. The Santa Claus portion has become more important the the fact that Christmas celebrates Jesus Christ being born to save us all.

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