Tony's comment perfectly captures the essence of a post I've been planning to write for a long time.
I think that Christians should be more concerned about the gross commercialization and paganization of their holiday - and that started a long time before certain people started pushing to stop using the word “Christmas”. If anything, shifting the public name to “holidays” or (less religiously) “season” helps Christians to retrench and re-establish a more meaningful celebration of the birth of their saviour within their own community … Why would those pushing the non-Christian line stop now when they can remove even the name from institutional memory?Although I had never considered the benefit to anti-Christians of diluting Christmas, it really does seem like both sides are taking positions contrary to their actual goals.
Personally, I have stuck with "Merry Christmas" for two reasons:
- I like the implicit nod to the people that had so much influence on Western life today, something I appreciate very much.
- It seems likely to offend all the right people. Not exactly a kind holiday sentiment, no, but here we are.
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