Fuck off

Semantics is the study of the meaning of something (phrase, symbol, word etc). If it weren’t for learning and changing through semantics I think the world would be in a much worse place. We still have freedom of speech and semantics helps us from not offending others and having the ability to be heard without people getting caught up on semantics.

There seems to be 3 types of people.
1. Religious Christians that really celebrate the birth of Christ
2. People who are non religious that have taken on the Christmas name based solely on tradition only and the Christ in Christmas is just a buzz word and they are in the whole thing for the great family time, exchange of gifts and time off work etc. (these people are the people that are most resistant to stop saying Merry Christmas to strangers who may not follow the tradition.
3. People who are non religious towards the Christian religion and or atheist who do not celebrate Christmas at all and usually are polite when someone says Merry Christmas even though it is not within their beliefs however, even though they are recognizing another God just maybe against their religion if they belong to one. This group enjoys the Holiday and celebrates how they see fit

The whole debate on if we should be saying Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays is based on the Christian religions. The people in the second category (Traditionalists) who are not religious and use Merry Christmas as their tradition verbiage towards the day are the most offensive because if they address the holiday as Merry Christmas to non practicing/celebrating individuals it goes right over their traditionalist head as they don’t relate the day to a religion it is just a buzz word for them. These traditionalists don’t seem to understand that they are making a religious statement to someone and expecting a religious greeting back from someone who indeed doesn’t practice or have the same beliefs. Little does each party realize is that the person saying Merry Christmas doesn’t mean it as a religious event or greeting it is just what they have always said and they are no more aware of who Christ is or have they ever read the book he starred in.
Why do Christians that insist on continuing to say Merry Christmas to people that they are not aware if they share the same beliefs? Do they really need that validation from non religious people towards their religion?
Honestly, people who are traditionalists are the most annoying because they are insistent on keeping Christ in Christmas as most don’t know the first thing about the Christian religion and they would be the first ones pissed off if someone with a bible came knocking on their door expressing religious views. When you say Merry Christmas you are spewing out a religious statement even if it is just a buzz word for you.
I think the government needs to change the holiday to Winter Holiday instead of Christmas Day.
I haven’t even touched on the commercialism of the holiday which again shows that there is very little Christianity in the air during the holidays.
People can use Merry Christmas when they know the person they are speaking to shares the same belief but otherwise , happy Holidays is fine. No need to make a statement that is a religious statement when it isn’t necessary just for the sake of tradition. If some traditions were not changed over the years we would still be rounding up people for gas chambers and lynching people. So let’s be careful when we keep things just for the sake of tradition.