I had been always greeting my friends and relatives Merry Christmas and Happy New Year during the holiday season. Just simply natural thing to say.
A quite while ago, I had this co-worker from South Carolina. One day we chatted about my upcoming trip to CA during Christmas time and might visit my mother's friend there. Suddenly he said to me why your Chinese celebrates Christmas anyway. That is Jesus' birthday. It surely seemed to me that it was odd for him to have Christian Chinese or Chinese just was not qualified to celebrate period. I thought that he was just crazy as he looked(He might not agree). But I never quite figured out why then.
A while ago, WalMart tried to embrace Gay and Lesbian communty for whatever purpose is. That certainly did not look right to those religion fanatics. They launched a boycott against WalMart. Finally WalMart retreated a bit and agreed on saying "Christmas Sale" instead of "Holiday Sale", "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays". Obviously those fanatics think that they own the domain of Jesus' birthday. I am not sure that Jesus would agree.
It is just odd it can go. They claim that they own it and have to force others to use it. Well I do not have any problem to let those freaks have it. I am much than happy to greet my relative and friends happy Holidays for now. The spirit is still the same for me. We feel grateful to be able to love and be loved.
Happy Holidays to everyone that makes my life meaningful!
