My apologies, my remarks should have been aimed at Paul Atreides. Bottom line, my point was simply when a friend/acquaintance bothers to take the time to wish you happy holidays, I don't understand why that should be offensive.
The birthday remark was lame, but a reference to Jehovah's Witness who do not celebrate birthdays.
I didn't mean to imply that the act of a kind wish of goodwill was 'offensive' in and of itself, but I find the act of consciously making an effort to remove all vestiges of Christendom from Christmas is bordering upon the 'offensive' , although I am generally loathe to use that much-overused and abused word. It seems that, for many, we have a situation where people are taking the occasion of a Christian Holy Day to send sentiments of goodwill and friendship, but are also consciously taking great pains to avoid any reference to Christmas. To me, this is very strange. In my view, if you aren't Christian and don't choose to celebrate Christmas in your own life, that's fine but why involve yourself with a near-approximation of the trappings of Christmas? I guess that what I find odd is that it seems some people only want to go 'half-way'...the act of using the occasion of Christmas to send a card that doesn't reference the day in it's appropriate context is rather baffling to me, but then again much of Liberalism is baffling to me as well.
The birthday remark was lame, but a reference to Jehovah's Witness who do not celebrate birthdays.
No apologies necessary, I just didn't understand.
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