My boyfrind, FReeper StoneColdGOP, is Christian. I'm sleeping with one, so I really cannot have any great contempt then, can I? Of course, I have contempt for someon telling me I will honor their holiday. I no more need to honor Christmas than I need to honor Ramadan or the Summer Solstice.
Of course.
I suppose I could have some contempt for someone who responds to a wish for happiness with contempt. I might be more inclined, however, to have some amount of pity for such a wretch -- a person who lives life unable to accept a mere wish for happiness on a given day as just that -- a wish for happiness on a given day. It's the sort of person who feels, I suppose, that any wish s/he receives for happiness from people of a different faith is an effort to get her/him to honor that day or to convert to the same faith as the person extending the wish for happiness.
The more I think about it, the more inclined I would be to pity such a person. It must truly be awful for such a person to go through life completely unable to accept a wish for happiness as anything other that another person's wish for her/him to be happy on a particular day.
"I no more need to honor Christmas than I need to honor Ramadan or the Summer Solstice."
I don't recall ever asking you to honor Christmas, Ramadan, the Summer Solstice, or even February 4th. In fact, I don't ever recall even suggesting that you honor any minute, hour, day, week, month, or season.
What I have wished for you, though, in a number of posts to this thread, is that certain days hold some measure of happiness or joy -- or even merriment -- for you.
It completely escapes me why you would choose to respond to such wishes from me for happiness, joy, or merriment with a stern reminder (that seems to be some sort of rebuke) that you have no need to honor Christmas, Ramadan, or the Summer Solstice.
Likewise, I am at a real loss to understand why you would choose to respond to such wishes with a comment about the contempt in which you hold for people who tell you that you will honor their holidays.
In the event that you and I do not have the opportunity to communicate with one another between now and the end of this current year (as those of us who use the Gregorian Calendar reckon years), let me extend to you and to your boyfriend as well my best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving, a Glad Winter Solstice, and a Merry Christmas.