What is the big deal about “Happy Holidays”?
Ok, I really don’t see what the big deal is about “Happy Holidays”. Is anyone actually saying “Happy Holidays unless you celebrate Christmas in which case I hope your Christmas tree catches on fire and your nativity scene spontaneously combusts”? Isn’t Christmas a holiday? So, wouldn’t that mean that “Happy Holidays” INCLUDES Christmas?
I really don’t care which one a person says to me, but I just don’t get why people are so up in arms about someone saying “Happy Holidays”. There are other holidays this time of year. In fact, all my life I thought “Happy Holidays” meant “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year”.
Could someone please explain why this is so offensive?
For the record, I DON’T find Merry Christmas offensive.
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29. July 2007 at 2:42 am :
There is no big deal about it.
Where the big deal is comes from how saying Happy/Merry Christmas has somehow become offensive.
It’s not like people are saying Merry Christmas, unless your an evangelical atheist, muslim or someone that doesn’t celebrate Christmas, in that case I hope your home burns down.
Could you please explain why Merry Christmas is so offensive?
You may not find it offensive, just as I don’t find “Happy Holidays” offensive, but there are enough that do so that people get fired for saying Merry Christmas.
29. July 2007 at 9:53 am :
No I can’t and I don’t know what the issue could be considering the person saying it is wishing another well.
31. July 2007 at 11:45 am :
“Happy Holidays” isn’t offenseive. What is offensive is when the elderly greeter at Wal Mart is fired because he says “Merry Christmas” to people as the walk through the door. The problem is restrictions on freedom. PC - influenced companies start telling employees that they are not allowed to say “Christmas.” Schools start telling kids that they can’t sing any traditional Christmas carol that has any religious content whatsoever. That is what people are upset about.
2. August 2007 at 2:47 pm :
I don’t like it being said on the television and stuff because I see it as too PC. No one should be ashamed of saying Merry Christmas.
2. August 2007 at 11:17 pm :
What is the big deal about “Merry Christmas”?? Why not let everyone use the greeting that they are comfortable with?
After all, don’t we still enjoy freedom of religion in the United States?
Or has that somehow become “freedom FROM religion”, and nobody told us??
What difference does it really make what the greeting actually is…as long as the wish behind it is real?
So, if someone says “Merry Christmas” to you, will you be offended?
I’m sure I am not offended when someone says “Happy Holidays” to me…
3. August 2007 at 8:43 am :
Jacko….you got that RIGHT!! if its not a big deal then why cant we just say Merry Chirstmas!!
By the way Merry Christmas and God Bless everyone !
5. August 2007 at 4:21 pm :
I don’t get it either. I also don’t understand why people think they can’t say Merry Christmas. Who’s stopping them?
11. August 2007 at 1:04 pm :
It can be offensive to Christians that are ethnocentric and believe that Christmas is the most important holiday of the season. Since they believe that Christmas is the only important holiday, they express that you should forget your beliefs and only pay attention to theirs. Therefor they believe you should say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays.
(NOTE: This only pertains to ethnocentric Christians, not all of Christianity, only 90% of it. lol …kidding about that last part.)