Anybody get major hostility from saying Merry Christmas this year. It was like nobody wanted to say it.
F Chuck declares “We have made the shutdown too easy”
That’s right chuck, got sip yer gov coco, have a cookie with julian castro and bitch about Trump.
Actually I have heard it,Merry Christmas, more this year than in past years.People are incensed at being forced to call is a holiday instead of Christmas and are revolting,IMHO.
My habit is to wish everyone I can a Merry Christmas. Including folks I speak with on the phone, store clerks, of course the Salvation Army bell ringers, etc.
Being in South Carolina, most folks respond positively. Every now and then I get static or just no response. I figure those folks are Yankee imports or maybe just here for the nice winter weather.
I’ve been out in LA two weeks ago and then in DC last week.
I said Merry Christmas to everyone and almost always got a very Merry Christmas back. A couple even said it with a tone of relief!
One federal worker at the Department of Labor, where I was teaching, said she preferred Happy Holidays out of respect for other religions.
I remarked back to her that December 25th is in fact a FEDERAL holiday and is named “Christmas” in the federal registry. So Merry Christmas can be said by and to all Americans as that is the name of this secular holiday, as the US Government doesn’t have religious holidays. You can be any—or no—religion and it is still a federal day off.
She nodded as that seemed to actually make sense to her.
I mean, really, Merry Christmas is an innocuous term when you think about it; not proselytizing at all to ask some one to have a happy day, no? It’s not like you said “He is born” or the “Savior has arrived!”.
So the atheists can say “Merry Christmas” as it is, for them, “Have a Happy, joyful day on this end of the year federal day off form work.” Just easier to say.