What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[dumbledore11214]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "marion11111" 
<marion11111 at ...> wrote:
>
> Sheryl, I wonder if the family was Jehovah's Witness.  In my 
community, a number of 
> families are Jehovah's Witness and they do not celebrate any 
reigious or patriotic holidays 
> or personal birthdays.  In my experience, the parents make a point 
to teach their children 
> how to respond politely when facing a situation involving 
religious greetings, parties, 
> birthdays, the pledge of allegiance, etc.  I am always impressed 
by how calm and polite 
> the children are.  A co-worker who is a Jehovah's Witness said 
they start role-playing 
> these situations with the kids at an early age.  
<SNIP>

Alla:

It would be my thought too. I have a coworker who is Jehovah's 
Witness and she does not go to office holiday parties. She is a 
wonderful person, smart, hardworking and very very polite, but I do 
wonder what she would have thought of me despite her being polite if 
I decided to wish her Merry Christmas. I mean, I doubt she would 
have said anything to me (or maybe she would say that she does not 
celebrate), but she would not have been very happy I think.

I mean, I guess this is the situation where she would not have been 
happy had I wished her Happy holidays either, so it is a good thing 
I learned that I should not.

Magpie:
<SNIP>
But it's not, for me, about placating
possible unreasonable people who have something against Christ. It's
more like being on the Internet on the Fourth of July and not
automatically wishing somebody Happy fourth of July because I'm aware
I might not be speaking to an American.


Alla:

Exactly.