What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "susanmcgee48176" <Schlobin at ...> wrote:

> Why don't Christians simply embrace Yule as a pagan holiday, and wish 
> everyone a blessed Yule? 
> 
> Why insist on imposing your religion and your version of the holidays 
> on everyone?
> 
> Susan

Geoff:
Turning the question round, why don't non-Christians stop trying 
to change what is, even in its name, a Christian festival?

I, as a Christian, do not interfere in the festivals of other faiths; 
they have their high days and holidays. Certainly in the UK in 
recent years, there seems to have been a concerted attempt to 
undermine the high points of the Christian year such as Easter 
and Christmas although these are foundations of the way in which 
we live and in which our culture has developed.

I believe that if you were to go into several countries which have a 
culture based on other religions and suggest that you started insisting 
on wishing people a "Happy Christmas", you would get a far stronger 
reaction than you do here. You might well fibnd yourself behind bars 
or worse.