What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 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?

She was released and returned to England



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



I find fundamentalists of ALL religions quite frightening....

Susan