Somewhere in America...

'Happy holidays' is [probably] offensively corporate in the UK - where our company Christmas card read 'Season's Greeting,'

I'm a Christian, and Pharisees like Jane scare me

And now they're in charge. We need to get more stories like this published.

Honestly I'm so sick of Christians who think not being given special notice is discrimination. Especially since it comes from those more likely to not tolerate gays= actual discrimation The party I support here the Greens has tried to pass bills to remove the lord's prayer from parliament sessions but Christians seem to think they need this special recognition because of their historical and continuing majority and power. But that's precisely why it's insulting to every other religion and the non-religious. Because it's basically "haha, remember how we're more powerful than you?" Secularity isn't disrespectful to religions it is simply respectful to all of them.

What`s always amused me about the war on Christmas, is how people of different faiths or no faith got along just fine for years when they were told Merry Christmas, but Happy Holidays is such a horrible thing. It`s petty really, if christ is the reason for the season then celebrate that, rather then over thinking a comment a coworker made in passing or why a Jewish ceo didn`t put the word Christmas on a cup you threw out anyways.

Also Simpsons comment makes me want to note that not all Christians are like this. The one`s that are just sadly the most vocal, as these things tend to normally go.

@Simpson17866 I presume you mean the new Trump GOP administration when you say in charge? Yes, that' s the silly disappointing thing. Trump was a GOP moderate on gay rights. Didn't even disagree with gay marriage until he needed more religious votes and GOP support. But his incoming cabinet has Family Research Council donors in it. A group that smears homosexuality with pseudoscience about "dangerous" effects on adopted children, exaggerating the AIDS trend and using it as a political weapon, claiming it's a choice and unnatural, etc. And there's Mike Pence. Any gay people that voted Trump expecting an LGBT friendly republican will be disappointed by what his new friends will be doing...

people like Jane in this worry me, as if i so much as mention that some of the things done in Christmas were borrowed from paganism, they'd have a heart attack or try to defend their rights. (in which case, i'd try to say that i'm not taking their rights away, i'm just educating them on some of the origins of some parts that Christians use)

Nice.
I think you captured the (silly) fears most hold close to themselves.
For years I have tried to explain to people that this exact thing is what fuels most crap in our world (a stupid paragraph playing out in one's mind).
I am always more important than you. Perfectly done in a single paragraph. Bravo.

Of course, one could also write a vignette where Jane gives Tom a cheery "Merry Christmas!" and he runs to Peter crying that she's trying to cram her religion down his throat.

Seems to me there's enough worrywartism to go around on all sides.

Which is why both are acceptable. One is an acknowledgement of multiple religions, one is an expression of one's own religion or of the cultural tradition.

'Happy Holidays' was originally an American expression - that has not translated well; seen as a parody of the seasonal greeting - I tried to say earlier. A mean-fisted, hateful euphemism, reeks of corporate ill-will, plastic coffee, Starbuck & Apple & every nobody, and is the cowardly emphatic invisible fluff.

Tho' other posters see it as enlightened, modern symbol of atheist pride - so I'm happy to embrace modernity...if that is the way..

Happy Holidays & may Christ bless every infant, man and sinner this holy God Sunday.