I will never understand the controversy of Merry Christmas or Season's

[el_bryanto]

3. You have to get into the mindset of victimization that they have

Imagine you go with a friend to another persons house and they have up things to celebrate Hannunkah - and you friend says to them "But I'm a Christian." That would strike you as a rude thing to say, right? To walk into someone else's house and demand that they celebrate the holidays the way they do?

Well for the persecuted Christian mindset - all of America is a home for Christianity. Any public space is, by default, belonging to Christians (white protestant Christians mostly). So when someone insists that other religious traditions be allowed or respected within the public sphere, it is, to them, the same as if you had gone in their house and started taking down their Christmas decorations.

When you get to the extremes of this mindset, a corporation or a government requesting happy holidays instead of merry Christmas is an insult - it's forcing them to acknowledge that Christianity doesn't actually own the public sphere.

Plus, insisting on Merry Christmas, is a cheap lazy way to feel morally superior - and everybody likes to feel morally superior, particularly when there's no risk involved.

Bryant