My holiday is meaningless to you.
I don't believe I have ever suggested at all that any of my holidays should hold any meaning at all for you.
"I do not need to be wished to be extra happy on a day that doesn't mean anymore to me than the 4th of February."
I must have misunderstood (and hereby apologize for so doing) an earlier post of yours in which you said, if memory serves me correctly, that your friends do not wish you a Merry Christmas because for you December 25th means work, Chinese food, and movies.
That rather sounded to me as the expression of someone for whom December 25th is a bit more -- unhappy? depressing? a bit of a downer? -- than February 4th.
I am glad for you (am I allowed to say that to you?) that you have no need to be wished "extra happy" on a day that doesn't mean anything omre to you than February 4th.
Would it then be out of place for me to tell you that I hope that your day today, November 10th, is both Merry and Happy?
Or would you find that too terribly offensive???
Earlier you rejected the term Holiday and stated that Rosh Hashanah, etc. are Holy Days. Very true.
It just so happens, however, that Christmas is both a Holiday and a Holy Day.
We have "4th of July Parties," "Thanksgiving Parties," "Labor Day Picnics," but we are forbidden to have "Christmas Parties...or plays, or pageants, or cards, or greetings..."
Christmas (the sole Holy Day declared by the people and their government to be a Holiday) is the sole Holiday that gets diluted with nonsensical pseudonyms. None of the other ten is unworthy of being called by its proper name. Why is Christmas? Because of people like you who want to elevate and equate your Holy Days with the one and only Holy Day officially recognized by the people and their government to merit designation as a Holiday.
Jews are 2% of the U.S. population, so please don't expect the other 98% to get all excited about Purim, Channukah and Rosh Hashannah or to equate them in importance to a Holy Day and Holiday celebrated by close to 90% of them, and specially recognized by the government. I am Catholic and I certainly don't expect you, the government, or the 74% of the population that is not Catholic to get excited about the Feast of the Ascenscion, the Feast of the Assumption, the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God, or the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. But these are critical Holy Days to me...as important to me as Rosh Hashanah is to you.
But 90% percent of the population and the Federal Government give special significance to Christmas. And although you may not like parties devoted to "Christmas the Holy Day," you ought not try to rename parties and other cultural events devoted to "Christmas the Holiday" anymore than you would try to rename a party or pageant devoted to the bearer of another federal holiday, Martin Luther King.