Happy whatever the heck you celebrate!

Happy holidays everybody!  Oh I'm sorry, did I offend you?
Yea... This irritates me.

December.  Home to many holidays!  Christmas, New years, *cough* my birthday *cough*, Kwanza, Hannukah, Ramadan, and many others.  This is a lot to keep track of, but what's even harder, is figuring out which holiday each individual on this earth celebrates.  But this predicament is easily solved with the simple phrase, "Happy Holidays!" or "Seasons Greetings!".  But, apparently, saying "happy holidays" is unChristian.  My question is, why?

Why does every obnoxious, hyper-conservative Christian find this phrase so appalling?

"Ary!  They're trying to take Christmas away from us!"
How?  "Happy Holidays" is just easier, and less rude than saying, "happy whatever the heck you celebrate!" to people you pass by on the street.  No one is trying to take Christmas away from anyone, if anything, you're trying to take the other holidays away from non-Christmas celebrators by saying Christmas is the only/ best holiday to celebrate this time of year.

"But Christmas is the most widely celebrated!"
In the US maybe.  But typically it's only Atheists, Christians, and some Messianic Jews that celebrate Christmas.  Most other religions don't.

"But Ary!  They're trying to take Christ out of Christmas!"
Oh please, Christmas celebrators have already done that.

Guys, "happy holidays" is an all-inclusive phrase, that happens to be easier than saying, "Happy Christmas, New year, Kwanza, Hannukah, Ramadan, or whatever other random holidays you can possibly celebrate!".  Now I'm not saying that saying "Merry Christmas" is bad, not at all.  It's just that not all people happen to celebrate Christmas.  You can say "Merry Christmas" as much as you want, as long as you don't get offended by people saying "Happy Hannukah" or "Joyful Kwanza" to you.

In case you haven't been paying attention in Sunday school, Christmas isn't about getting upset over stupid stuff like "Happy Holidays" or red Starbucks coffee cups, it's about, giving to others and of yourself.  it's about Christ, the savior of the universe, coming down to earth to redeem us from our sins, even though we did absolutely nothing to deserve it.  It's about loving one another as fellow humans and, more importantly, children of GOD and brothers in Christ.  GOD doesn't care what you say to others as you pass by them in the park, what he cares about is you loving Him and all others around you.  Chrismas has been diluted into this holiday of mass consumerism and greed, don't make it worse by placing it above all other holidays as the "all mighty alpha holiday".

Remember, we are celebrating Christ and his arrival on earth, not the day marked on the calendar.
Happy holidays everyone!
<3 Ary