As I said above, I couldn't care less how others wish me good cheer during the holiday season; I've been saying "happy holidays" as long as I can remember. It's not the lefties that made a fetish object of "merry Christmas."
The original post left out the "Balkanization Christmas," where some stake out cultural molehills to defend vigorously, consequently missing opportunities to relax and enjoy the festivities.
We usually have a Polish Xmas eve and my DIL cooks. That’s important to her. Xmas day I make a main course and people bring salad, dessert, wine. Any of our kids are welcome to join also. It varies yearly in who can attend. No focus on gifts but just being together and having fun. 2 of the people who regularly attend are Jewish.
I don’t resent it any more than I resent your appeal to Heaven. It’s really more in the nature of amusement politics. I have no problem with people having a good time on St Patrick’s Day or Chinese New Year without the genetic testing to back it up. I just find it funny that people look at it as a way of establishing diversity credentials when so many other borrowings from other cultures are callout-worthy.
I think cultural exchanges are generally a good thing; I'm not one to accuse others of "cultural appropriation" anyway.
I do, however, question you citing the concept of Christian love when you seem to disdain many of the groups Christ championed--like prisoners and refugees. Or is that just "virtue signalling?"
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