What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[pippin_999]

> >
> Carol responds:

> However, I was wished "Happy Holidays," not "Merry Christmas," at
> every store I shopped at this December, including Safeway, JC Penneys,
> Borders Books, Toys R Us, and Radio Shack. I don't know how many of
> these stores have actual policies on the subject, but the trend is
> unmistakeable.
>

Pippin:
I don't mind strangers wishing me a Merry Christmas out of personal
conviction, and most people can't  guess my ethnicity from my looks
much less my religion. In my mixed family, I help my husband 
celebrate Christmas, and he helps me celebrate Channukah. It isn't
everyone's answer to what Jews call "the December Dilemma" but
it works for us. 

OTOH, if huge, publicly-held corporations want to offer me good wishes 
on behalf of their stockholders and employees, numbers of whom are not 
Christian, it seems to me appropriate that they be inclusive.


Pippin
wishing a Happy New Year to all and reminded of Gandalf's riff on 
"Good morning" (from memory, What do you mean good morning? 
Do you wish me a good morning whether I want one or not, or do you 
mean that you feel good this morning, or that it is a morning to be good 
on?)