MERRY CHRISTMAS

There! I said it.....MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Actually it is the evening before Christmas Eve....and I just had to get on my soap box. It is a new topic that has recently begun to REALLY bug me.

To be simplistic, it is about Christmas. I am one who says "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" and enjoy the holiday I celebrate.

Over the past years however, there has been a change in things. Things that while I do not understand, I don't, for lack of a better word, ponder very much. I have heard that schools do not have Christmas or Easter break any longer. No, they are now called "winter" and "spring" break.

Then I hear how Christmas carols are not allowed to be sung, or played, in some schools. I hear how the nativity scene is not allowed in some places.

Still....I shake my head in silence.

Until this week......The t.v. is on and I'm seeing (and hearing) all the "HAPPY XXXX". It seems that every holiday BUT Christmas can be talked about....now this is not right. I guess I'm just asking for equality in the holiday's and am not understanding why this is not so.

Yes, my soap box is new...but I'm sick of every holiday being celebrated except Christmas. Guess I don't understand why Christmas cannot be celebrated if every other holiday is? Wish someone could explain this to me, not that I'd undertand or buy into the theory, still, I'd be interested in hearing.