Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Merry CHRISTMAS!!!!! The official national holiday that we celebrate is called Christmas, therefore I wish everyone a merry Christmas. We don't say have a great Holiday Weekend for Memorial Day, or eat a Holiday turkey instead of Thanksgiving turkey. We don't wish people a good Civil Rights Leader Awareness Holiday, we say have a good Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We don't have a Holiday Day parade, we have a Veteran's Day Parade.

It seems that all of our holidays have a meaning behind them. Veteran's, M.L.K, Thanksgiving, and so on. So if everyone is calling Christmas a "Holiday", then what are we celebrating? If there's no meaning behind it, then I think everyone should simply not have it off, go back to work on that day, and ACT like it doesn't mean anything. After all, if there is no meaning behind it, why do we have just some random day off from work?

Easter, although not a national holiday, is the most important event/day in the Catholic/Christian religion. People don't say happy "Sunday" instead of Easter, do they? So why are people more offended about Christmas than Easter?

Easter is celebrated by Catholics, etc. for the religious miracle of Jesus Christ raising from the dead. It is a day based in religion. However, Christmas is simply celebrating the birth of a person. Weather that person was truly the son of God or some nutcase or some magician or just a regular guy is up to each one of us to decide. However, he has influenced BILLIONS of people throughout the ages, if you agree with the teachings or not. You may not agree with what President Lincoln or Washington did, but we still celebrate a day for them and recognize their influence.

Ok, well that was my rant. I usually don't like to get religious, etc., but the whole "Happy Holidays" thing is bugging me. I don't like the idea of trying to sanitize a national holiday. What's next, no more Veteran's Day because it offends the hippies? No more President's Day because people didn't like their political parties? No more Thanksgiving because people are vegetarian?