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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.

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.

LMAO! No, I don't want my holidays elevated at all. They are very meanigful to me. I unlike you, do not need the federal approval of my days.

But you never answered me earlier...are you going to be one of the posters with their panties in a bunch when you see the President's card this year? The last 4 years they have all read, "Happy Holidays". I look foward to your spittle laced thread about it this year.