Happy Holidays!

I know this has been argued ad nauseam, but for some reason there are things that must be said and said and said again.

NO ONE IS FORBIDDING THE WISHING OF A MERRY CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS IS NOT DIMINISHED BY WISHING SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW HAPPY HOLIDAYS

CHRISTMAS IS INCLUDED IN THE HOLIDAY PART OF HAPPY HOLIDAYS

If you are a fundamentalist you should know that Jesus was most likely NOT born on 25 December, but when the shepherds were guarding their sheep most likely during lambing in the Spring. Christmas on 25 December is just the day early Christians chose to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

I LIKE Happy Holidays. It includes people who celebrate different holidays and it includes New Years. I don't mind saying Merry Christmas to those I know celebrate Christmas, but if I don't know someone I will wish them Happy Holidays.

If you insist on wishing people Merry Christmas, and only Merry Christmas without acknowledging other people may be celebrating for an entirely different and valid reason; if you don't recognize Happy Holidays as a perfectly acceptable greeting; and if you get angry when people suggest to other people to use Happy Holidays as a more inclusive way to spread cheer and warmth to their fellow human beings; then you are frankly being Un-Christian.

I wish joy, happiness and good hope to you, your family, all you know, and all you love a Happy Bodhi Day, Happy Kathika Deepam, Happy Pancha Ganapati, Happy Vaikuntha Ekadashi, Happy HumanLight, Happy Salgirah Khushiali, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Yule, Happy Koliada, Happy Wassailing, Happy Yalda, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Ōmisoka, Happy Hogmanay, Chalica, and a very Happy New Year!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE