It's my HOLIDAY, I'll do what I want (mostly)...

Every Christmas-season seems to get a little more, frantic? frenetic? deranged? 'Tis the season, right?

Why did people stop caring?  Did the last 100 years really advance society and culture to the point at which I feel it is now?  To the point, people have lost the ability to be kind and welcoming?  To have lost the ability to have discussion and revelations about one another?  To have lost the ability to embrace a spirit of goodwill to one and all?

America's ancestors, the settlers, were trying to escape oppression and persecution for their religious beliefs.  Why then must we, today, be forced to listen to the outcry of extremists who want nothing more than to have one holiday, Christmas, reign supreme?

Religious freedom?  Great idea, in theory.  But obviously not one that can truly be attained.  I am Christian.  I do not attend a church, I am not a member of a congregation.  God loves me because I believe He is my Father.  God loves me because I am one of His children.  God loves me because I try to be a good person, and because I follow a set of morals that He guides me with.

I don't celebrate Christmas because it was the day of Jesus's birth (do your research, no one knows when Jesus was born, and Pope Julius I decided to celebrate The Birth on the 25th of December because he was trying to compete with the Pagan holidays of the time).

I celebrate Christmas because, to me, it is about honest and true goodwill, kindness, helping, love, and giving.

I must say that I DO agree that saying Merry Christmas should NOT be punished.  By being "politically correct" we are allowing persecution of our own Christian religions and I do not agree with that.  But seeing how I do NOT celebrate for the same reasons others do, I am okay with people saying Happy Holidays to me, because in all reality, it is a Holiday, just like all the other Holidays that are celebrated during this season.

But if you're truly upset because someone says Happy Holidays, how hard is it to say something similar to, "Oh, I celebrate Christmas so: Merry Christmas." or, "Oh, I celebrate Hanukkah so: Happy Hanukkah".

Then again, based on how I feel, the semantics shouldn't have as much merit as the thought that someone, whether they are the same religion or belief as you or not, took a moment to wish you a happy anything.  People aren't kind enough to do that anymore.  Shoot, in January do you recall anyone, anyone random at all that is working at a store or walking past you on a street, saying "I hope you have a wonderful day", or "Happy January to you!!!"  Seriously it doesn't happen.  So why, during the one time of year when everyone is feeling festive for ANY REASON AT ALL, do people have to denounce the kindness of people and attack them for saying something at all?  Next year I fear no one will say ANY Holiday greeting at all because they will get fired or killed for it.