Is it really politically correct to say Happy Holidays, or is it just being polite?

[Asmodee]

The thing is you being 'polite' to everyone except Christians, our beliefs, our traditions, and our holiday. what's more you have taken a day we have adopted to celibrate the birth of Christ, and devalued it. You take the tradition commericialize it and strip all of it's meaning. What other religion can soceity take a sacred day from, takes it's key elements/practices and discard the rest while going through the motions/rituals, and it not be mocked?

You not being polite. You are making a political statement that devaules a very specific religion and those who believe or want to set apart december 25 as being the day Christ was born.

That is absolutely not true. Not one word of that. To say, "Merry Christmas" to a Jewish person, knowing that they are Jewish, would be disrespectful. To say, "Happy Holidays" as a general greeting for the season is just trying not to offend anyone. And yes, Christmas does have "Christ" in the name, but it is not now, nor was it ever a "Christian holiday". Look up the origins of the Yule Log, mistletoe, the time of year it is held, holly, the tree itself, using the colors red and green, the star on top the tree, the ornaments on the tree...ALL of this is from pagan traditions, just like the symbolism of rabbits and eggs from Easter. Talk about "taking a sacred day from" someone and "taking the key elements and discarding the rest", that is EXACTLY what Christianity has done with Christmas. Christians added ONE THING and you want to call it yours and yours alone? Give me a break!

As for it being rude to wish you "Happy Holidays", let me break that down for you. What you are saying is that if I don't specifically acknowledge and validate your beliefs and give a big "fuck you!" to anyone and everyone whose beliefs differ THAT is being rude. But if I do acknowledge only your specific beliefs, completely ignoring how it may make anyone not holding those beliefs feel, THAT is not being rude. You know, for people who named themselves after someone known for his very giving nature, Christians sure are pretty self-centered. You show that you hold no compassion for anyone "not like you", you don't care about anyone's feelings but your own and anything short of 100% acknowledgement and validation of your beliefs is an insult. So, do you have this same requirement to give 100% acknowledgement and validation to all beliefs you don't hold? Do you feel that you would be rude in not wishing a Satanist a happy Yule season? Would you be rude if you didn't wish a Jew Chanukah? Would it be rude of you to say, "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Kwanzaa" to a black family? If you don't think NOT wishing any of these people their own traditional season's greeting is rude then you are self centered; self important; unconcerned with your fellow man; self righteous. In other words, you might be God.