Rather it’s exactly what is sounds like Happy Holidays, thanksgiving, new year, christmas or religious winter holiday of your choice, and technically you could say it as early as halloween.

Christmas is a symbol – like the flag or statue of liberty. It makes sense for people to have some passion about it. One thing to remember tho, you can only control your own beliefs and acts. One of the most devout Christians I know doesn’t even celebrate Christmas. Her church teaches that Christmas is really a Pagan holiday – so they celebrate Christmas EVERY day. (Yes, we all know Christmas actually was invented by the Roman Catholic church in 440 AD to replace a Pagan Holiday, but like I said, it’s a SYMBOL of Christ’s birth not actually the day He was born). Anyway, my point is, she doesn’t run around saying ‘Merry Christmas’ this time of year, but in my heart I know she’s 10
times a better Christian than me!

I live in a big city. There are Jews and Muslims and many other religions here. A couple times in the past few days I have been told to have a ‘Happy Hannakah’. I have no idea what Hannakah is all about, but I say ‘Thanks’. I take the greeting as it was offered, as a kindness.

If someone is making you say ‘Happy Holidays’ and you really want to say ‘Merry Christmas’, then I am right there with you – that’s dead wrong!! If, however, you are just wanting to control others and have them say what you want to hear… then, well, I would have to ask what’s so Christian about forcing someone to say what you want to hear?

Yes I do care. I care a lot. I feel like people are trying to take away our CHRISTIAN holiday. No-one tells the Jews not to say Happy Hannuka or tries to take Holidays away from Hindus, and yet the general public wanted to turn the day of our Christ’s birth into a secular day of reindeer, Christmas lights and men in red suits. That is not Christmas. People who say Happy Holidays are slowly taking our Christian holiday away. I feel people who are not Christian should not celebrate Christmas. I am also afraid that soon Easter will be taken away from us as well. It seems as if we try to tell the story of Jesus – the real meaning of Christmas – anywhere, that we are shunned, and considered politically incorrect. We are only allowed to share our sermons for christmas in our churches, and it seems the real meaning of Christmas is not allowed outside church walls.

I think it is politically incorrect to say happy holidays. It could be considered discriminating towards Christians.

Great discussion, and I love your blog!

I do not support the “reverse” political correctness approach of some to boycott and pressure stores to use the term “Christmas.” That seems a bit too forced to me — like the Christmas Gestapoe.

Our society is losing Christmas because Christian values and the Christian worldview have been lost from the hearts of our people.

You can’t restore that with political pressue. Well — you can — but then it’s just an empty expression if it’s not from the heart.

Better to work on restoring hearts with the Gospel and let the outward expressions flow from what is in the heart. Otherwise you are just hanging fresh fruit on dead fruit trees — looks good — but it’s all a big charade.

“…out of the heart the mouth speaks.” — Jesus.

So a very merry christmas to all…

As it is a proven fact that He was not born in December at ALL, and – even though at this time people were capable of recording the date – NO date was recorded at all.

‘christmas’ is a MAN-MADE festival that – even though it reminds some of their saviour, all the details that it tells them about His birth are FALSE.

God himself has already given us 7 festivals to celebrate, that are reflections of past and future history, but the secular world (along with many christians) IGNORE these completely!