What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[Carol]

susanmcgee 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?
> 
> 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 find yourself
behind bars or worse.
>
Carol:

Right. Remember the teacher arrested and threatened with execution for
allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed? Anyone know what
happened to her?

Carol, who sees fundamentalist Islam as much more oppressive and
dangerous than any (modern) form of Christianity (no offense to
moderate Muslims intended)