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Monday, December 26, 2005
Christmakkah. Hope everyone had as wonderful a day yesterday as I did! I spent the majority of my day at my mom's celebrating Christmas, and drove home so late that I felt bringing the menorah out would just be trying to gild a very tired lilly. Instead of lighting our own, on our way home I drove past the town menorah which was nicely lit up (with a Christmas tree in the background). "There it is! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas!" Catallarchy has quite succinctly summed up my feelings on the "Happy Holidays" debacle (that there is even a debacle seems pretty grinch-ish): I think it's lame to be offended at being wished "Happy Holidays" because its a "War on Christmas", and it's lame to be offended at being wished a "Merry Christmas" just because you don't celebrate the religious holiday.He goes on to make even more sense in the rest of his well-written post. Now that it's December 26th, I assume no one will bristle when I wish them a Happy Holidays? Or has that become pavlovian? posted by hilary at 10:22 AM |  
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He makes good points, with which I agree, but I maintain my derision of "Happy Holidays." Most of the people I come across using it are not doing so to voice their anti-Christian sentiment, but rather are attempting to appease and be PC. Since I can tolerate neither appeasement nor political correction, my animosity towards the term is fueled. I can remember when both Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings were non-controversial forms of holiday greetings, and I'm no zealot, but I do find myself in this case siding with those who are fed up with public references to Christ being chased out of the mainstream.