Personally, I don’t have a problem with the whole ‘Merry Christmas’ thing.
Just remember, that if you think that you have the right to have society, as a whole, use it indiscriminately during this time... you’d have to allow society to use ANY holiday greeting (even Ramadan) indiscriminately.
Which is why I brought up the Ramadan bit. If you’d find it uncomfortable to be in a society that did that, then you’re saying that you wouldn’t like to be in a society that expressly pushes a specific religion’s slogans on it’s people, regardless of their beliefs.
What it should be, and was once - before all the lawsuits started to fly, was an individual choice. Store managers, individual owners, ordinary people chose to say what they wanted, regardless of lawsuits or peer pressure.
And that’s the way it should have remained.
Ok, I pretty much agree with all you just wrote. The troubling part is that people and stores USED to be able to say and display what they wanted - as you wrote.
Now we have the politically correct who are successfully trying to stop that.
In my whole life I never once thought about or minded how others practiced their religions.
The atheists, the gays and the PC liberals are the ones pushing their agenda and trying to remove all traces of my religion, and I won’t keep quiet about that.