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?

[trunks_girl26]

It's intersting to see some people's opinions from America, as I myself live in Leicester where a considerable amount of the population is not Christian. Some of my best friends ("I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black") are Muslim, Sikh, Jewish and devoutly Christian, yet everyone still says Merry Christmas, and no-one takes offence. Though I'm sure I don't speak for all of the UK, but it seems the need for astounding political correctness is stronger in America.

It's probably because America has a much higher diversity than Britan, since we have so many more people than Britan, (or, for that matter, than most countries in Europe). And when you have that many different cultures and identites floating about, you're bound to offend someone no matter what you do. So what's the answer? Attempt to not offend anyone, obviously. That's where all this PC stuff comes from. Everyone's afraid of offending someone else (which in itself should be an offence, because everyone should be able to realize when people are intending to offend and when they're not ), so they attempt to smoothe things over with everyone by keeping evreyone happy. Now logically, they know it can't happen, but they try anyway. Silly buggers.

Anyway, I actually find that there are a ton of cards that say Happy Holidays (of course, this could be because I live so close to the city), and I can't see myself being offended at anyone wishing me a happy or merry anything, but that's just me.