I have been wished both Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays several times this week. I mention this because every year some Christians get so upset about people, and especially store employees, saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. As a Christian myself, I accept the Christ of Christmas, but not much else about the day. Do I think that people who say Happy Holidays are pagans and against Christ? No, not at all. For some people, like teachers and those lucky enough to get the time off, the whole period from Christmas to New Years Day is one big holiday so Happy Holidays is appropriate. I wish my fellow Christians would get upset about something that matters, like thousands of kids with a dead father this Christmas because he got killed fighting some senseless foreign war in Iraq or Afghanistan.

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