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And while we're at it: Valentine's Day. It's a Catholic saint's feast - sorry, off limits, at least to those who won't say "Merry Christmas. My suggestion: "Happy Holintine's Day."
That's what happened to the previous bland blandishment of "Merry Christmas." It was no more a declaration of religious belief than saying, "God bless you," when you heard a sneeze. (Remind me: is that still allowed?) Yet in the nagging belief that an invocation of the holiday might upset...
What the "Happy Holidays" crowd didn't realize was that not saying "Merry Christmas" was as annoying to traditionalists as saying it was to non-Christians. The debate had little to do with belief; it was about people's fond, perhaps fanciful, memories of Christmases past.
In my youth, America may or may not have had a Christian culture, but it surely had a Christmas culture. The choosing and decorating of the tree, the buying and wrapping (and, for the kids, the opening) of presents, the candy canes and mistletoe, the turkey dinner that reconvened a...
For decades thereafter, I was unconditionally with Spector and Irving Berlin, on the "Merry Christmas" side of the debate - until the last few years, when some evangelicals and their media handmaidens made a big hairy deal about the meaning of Christmas. Like the stern secularists, they got it wrong too...