After watching this CitizenLink video: Merry Tossmas, I’ll admit. I laughed. I am also sympathetic to the sentiments expressed in this video. It makes me angry that some people are forbidden to wish me a “Merry Christmas.” To prohibit someone from saying “Merry Christmas” feels a lot like stepping onto a slope that prohibits free religious expression in this country. I believe that to the maximum extent possible we should allow the ringing of church bells, the wearing hijab, religious decorations, and other forms of religious expression.
BUT…I think there is a very big difference between being concerned when retailers prohibit the use of expressions such as “Merry Christams” and demanding that retailers call their winter marketing campaigns “Christmas” sales instead of “Holiday” sales. After all Christmas ISN’T a secular holiday and shopping really has nothing to do with it. Maybe I should prefer that retailers call it it “Holiday Shopping” so as not to confuse that with The Feast of the Nativity. Maybe those secular retailers know something that we should know. There isn’t any such thing as “Christmas Shopping.”
A thank you kindly to Christine at Domestic Vocation.
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