Merrappy Hanuquansmus!!

I'm getting a little annoyed with all the people who are trying to make Christmas politically correct. "Happy Holidays" doesn't really bother me all that much, but just the idea of trying to trivialize Christmas. I guess ultimately I'm just afraid that at some point they will decide that Thanksgiving and Christmas somehow violate the arbitrary "seperation of church and state" rule and they will be done away with. I don't see that happening even in the next ten years but I do see it as a possibility and that worries me.

As a Christian, I'm not going to punch someone in the face if they accidentally wish me a Happy Hannukah, so why should I have to worry about offending someone by saying Merry Christmas to them? I like the idea of not oppressing people, but we are going about it the wrong way. Instead of attacking the thing that is most prevelant (ie Christmas) and making it taboo, we should all just realize that we are different and be ok with it. (Can't we all just get along?)

I'm sure you laughed out loud at that last observation. Obviously it's easier said than done, but I don't understand the current line of thinking. We can either tick off some people a little, by maybe saying the wrong thing to the wrong person from time to time, or we can totally tick off the largest segment of the population by making it taboo to say Merry Christmas. Doesn't make a lot of logical sense to me.

It's the same thing with the race issue. No one thinks twice about making a racial slur about white males on tv or anywhere else, for the same reasons. Society seems to think that the best way to make everyone equal is to oppress the largest group of people and try to bring them back down to earth, so to speak. Once again, they are ticking off the largest segment which seems nuts to me.

I don't plan to stop saying "Merry Christmas" this year, but at the same time, I'm not going to launch a crusade against the "Happy Holidays" folks either. They may not be the largest group right now, but ticking them off still seems wrong.