Get Ready for the Fake “War on Christmas.”

(This was one of my earliest Substack posts, written a year ago. It’s still a minor and humorous issue. With all the actual and terrible wars going on in this world today, it’s incredible that this is the war that infuriates some people.) Image courtesy of Freepix

It’s that time of year again, when people who don’t know me from a hole in the wall wish me a “Merry Christmas,” assuming I believe that December 25 marks the birth of a man born to a virgin, the son of the Jewish deity. (I absolutely do not.) I see no need to burst their bubble or ruin their joy, so I generally say nothing, nod and smile, and trudge on. (If I know the person, and I see their greeting as an autonomous response, not delivered with any evangelical or conversionary reasoning behind it, I’ll wish them “Happy Holiday,” which is the greeting I prefer.)

(I have many Christian friends and relatives who I know celebrate the holiday, and I do of course wish them a “Merry Christmas.”)

Today, Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN are pretty where you will hear the rants against “Happy Holidays” and the claim of a “War on Christmas.” Everyone else would be too embarrassed to look like such jackasses.

The “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings” salutations make much more sense in pluralistic America than the narrow and sectarian Christian…