Amen, my friend. Needing to shout "Merry Christmas" in everyone's faces is not what Christianity is supposed to be about.

I've had this conversation with several friends lately. My guess is that those who think it's silly to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" to strangers whose religious background is unknown don't get what a big deal it is because they have spent their lives being in the norm. Spending one's life outside of the norm - feeling like a freak whenever asked in a group to bow one's head and pray, not knowing as a child what to do when the school teacher asks the class to make a pledge to one nation "under God" - can be very, very difficult. And efforts made by people to be more inclusive to everyone, and not assume that every person living in this country is a Christiank, are kind. And they CERTAINLY don't represent a "war on Christmas". Puh-lease.