Xmas, taking the christ out of christmas? Options

[kidvicious2punk]

there are some people who think that writing the short form "xmas" in place of christmas is nothing short of secular and disrespectful.

there was a segment on the daily show with jon stewart in which some one complained that the saying "happy holidays" is also taking away from the religious values of christmas.

in response,jon said [it was close to this,not exact],
"well,yes the holiday season is considering christmas,but,new years is also a holiday.sure,you could say 'merry christmas and a happy new year',but some of us have things to do."

maybe the fact of the matter is that the meaning of christmas is becoming less and less clear.but i dont think its that big of a deal that people would like to save time in writing out the whole word and simply came up with "xmas".

thoguhts?

[oobunnie]

I dont get what the big problem is about. I had a man get angry with me a couple of days ago for writing Merry Christmas on the back of his bill. This was 2 days before Christmas. Anyways I asked him if his famliy was still planing on eating the turkey dinner and all the comercial stuff that goes with it. And he was so I really didn't see what his problem was. Well no I said "Merry f*cking holidays then." and walked away. Honestly how can you want someone to say merry anything to you when your wandering around rudely bothering rather busy people for no reason.
I'm not Christian but I do realize that the end of December is for the gemeral populize Christmas time; and there for I dont see what the problem is. I celebrate many non-religeous parts of Christmas just like most people do. So I don't understand why anyone would want to throw a stinking fit over the fact that someone says Merry Christmas to you because it not only festive, but what that person thinks is a nice/happy thing to say.