What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"? (long)

[potioncat]

> 
> Magpie:
> Or baptists who insist weddings can't have any liquor because their 
> sect doesn't drink.

Potioncat:
Well, I wouldn't expect alcohol at a Baptist wedding. It was lots of 
fun planning a wedding when most of my side were non-drinkers (from a 
religious standpoint), and all of my in-laws side expected wine at 
weddings. 

Magpie:
 If kids are fasting for any religious reason, it's not the job 
> of the society at large to fast. The point is that they're going 
> without, so having food for other people isn't being insensitive to 
> their needs. It's supposed to be hard to fast and non-Muslims 
aren't supposed to be doing it for Ramadan.

Potioncat:
I think what was decided, was that each class would plan a party 
based on the class makeup. This was a grade school K--6, and really 
only the older grades were affected.

The real intent was to make all the children feel comfortable. 

> 
> As opposed to the Walmart change in greeting despite the "majority" 
of 
> its customers being Christians--the key word there being majority. 
They 
> idea being that it's really bad for a Chrsitmas-celebrator to 
> get "happy holidays" that includes Christmas but doesn't priviledge 
it, 
> but a non-Christmas celebrator should naturally be fine being 
greeted 
> with Merry Christmas. If Walmart had changed their greeting to only 
> Happy Hannukkah throughout the whole holiday season, I admit I 
don't 
> think that would be considered acceptable by the same people. In 
fact, 
> I think it would be considered just as much of a War on Christmas--
> while the Merry Christmas isn't a "War on Hannukkah" or whatever 
> because Christians are the majority.
> 
> -m
>