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Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas: All Well Wishes
It’s that time of year again. It’s that time when Christians get angry at non-Christians for saying ‘Happy Holidays’ and non-Christians get angry at Christians for wishing them a ‘Merry Christmas.’ I know. I’ve observed it firsthand from both sides. You would think at this time of the year the holidays would bring unity, but instead it seems like they are bringing division. It’s no wonder why. We are becoming a society of greater extremes, us vs. them, and this transfers over to our holidays. I hear Christians say there is a war on Christmas. I hear non-Christians say the opposite.
“Don’t say merry Christmas,” once someone told me angrily, berating me as though I had committed a huge blunder. “Not everyone celebrates Christmas.” Someone else on Facebook writes a post about how offensive and oppressive wishing everyone a merry Christmas is. One day at a store, I see a lady saying ‘merry Christmas’ and belligerently saying that she can say it to whoever she wants to and that if anyone is offended then tough luck. Her mannerisms are not very Christ-like, and I cringe. With all this jockeying for holiday power, it’s only appropriate to address both sides, Christians and non-Christians.
To the Christians
Some Christians feel a sense of entitlement, that they are obligated to say merry Christmas, under…
