People should say Merry Christmas — or Happy Hanukkah, Happy Diwali, Eid Mubarak, or any other holiday greeting proudly and happily, and hope others will take it in the festive spirit it is offered.

Initially, the phrase “Happy Holidays” was adopted either as a way of avoiding offence, or as a catch-all to include other celebrations like New Year, and other religions’ winter festivals ...

Although “Happy holidays!” is usually intended as a kind, warm wish to another human being, ... “Season’s greetings” is pretty neutral and still thoughtful. 2.

“Happy Holidays,” after all, was clearly created to give the false impression of inclusivity. An individual can appropriately wish a Christian “Merry Christmas,” of course.

The longest-running battle in the goofy, cable-news-concocted “War on Christmas” has been over whether people should say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays.” Bill O’Reilly made the ...

A neutral greeting like “happy holidays” fits perfectly into this new ethos. At this time of year, when the holidays of Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanzaa overlap, this cultural dilution is ...

However, if the stranger says “happy holidays” to ten people, they include all ten with the neutral statement, but multiple of the nine may believe in the “War on Christmas” and take offense to the ...