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So fricken sick of the "Happy Holidays" debate. Wasn't it bad enough last year?

Let's face it, the "Christmas Season" takes up roughly a third of the year, if not more. It starts before Halloween and goes all the way up through New Years.

In the meantime you've got Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chirstmas, Solstice/Yule and about fify bajillion other holidays that I'm missing.

If you're so worried about the "Reason for the season", why in the effing h-e-double-hockey-sticks are you out getting into fist fights over a PS3 or whatever gadget of obscenely inflated cost your kid wants?

Believe it or not, "Happy Holidays" and "Seasons Greetings" were meant to include you too.

And now, I bid you Merry Solstichristmakwanzakkuh.

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[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Precisely!

I do, in fact, happen to celebrate Passover, and appreciate those who know that I do making notice of it. For that reason I wish those who do Christmas "Merry Christmas" when appropriate. And I really appreciate it when the more clueful ones respond with a "thank you" instead of the same.

And, of course, the semi-clued (who give me a "Happy Hanukah" with no regard as to when exactly it might be this year) are frustrating on their own - I know they are trying to be thoughtful, but most of them wouldn't think to be for any holiday that actually mattered to me. I never know whether to just smile and nod and be grateful that at least the difference is being recognised, or try to educate them about the actual holiday.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

That may be all fine and good. Except to those of us who don't want to celebrate _anything_.

For instance: "Hey I'm celebrating Easter this weekend because I'm happy that my Lord Jesus rose from the dead" "That's cool. And I don't have any religious holidays coming up, because I don't believe in god".

Yeah, that'll go over real well.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Kinda telling, how that question is framed. And, for that matter, the second part of how you answered.

(As far as I'm concerned, they are no more wrong than the rest of us.)