Defenses against jealousy

Allmusic
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:07:25 +0000

I remember the hullaballoo last year, when many stores decided to stop wishing people a “Merry Christmas”, but a “Happy Holidays” instead, and how this was so outrageous to so many Christians. In fact, part of the hullaballoo is that many said Christians refused to shop in stores that didn’t acknoweldge their holiday. Um…hello? All my life I have had people wish me a Merry Christmas or a Happy Easter, even though I celebrate neither. I have just smiled and gone on my way. Was MY holiday ever acknowledged? Did I make a big, hairy deal out of that? No.

This is just one of countless examples, and there really are countless, of the ways the majority religion impacts American life, and it is in no way just in schools. As a member of a minority religion, I understand that the ways of the majority prevail. That’s OK. But to act as if somehow Christianity is being attacked, because shopkeepers wish a “Happy Holiday”, or because kids don’t sing songs about Jesus as Lord in school…? Puhleeze.