Just Say 'Merry Christmas' | 5 Minute Video

Should Americans wish each other "Happy holidays" or "Merry Christmas"? Should an office "Christmas party" be called a "holiday party" so that it's more inclusive? Dennis Prager answers these questions and more in this short video.

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Script:

The change from wishing fellow Americans "Merry Christmas" to wishing them "Happy Holidays" is a very significant development.

Proponents of "Happy Holidays" argue it's no big deal - proponents of "Merry Christmas" are making a mountain out of a molehill.

But the "Happy Holidays" advocates want it both ways. They dismiss opponents as hysterical; but at the same time, in addition to replacing “Merry Christmas” with "Happy Holidays,” they have relentlessly pushed to replace “Christmas vacation” with “winter vacation” and “Christmas party” with
"Holiday Party.”

So, then, which is it? Is all this elimination of the word “Christmas" important or not?

The answer is obvious. It's very important. That’s why so much effort is devoted to substituting other words for “Christmas.” And these efforts have been extraordinarily successful. In place of the universal “Merry Christmas” of my youth, in recent decades I have been wished "Happy Holidays" by every waiter and waitress in every restaurant I have dined; by everyone who welcomes me at any business; by my flight attendants and pilots; and by just about everyone else.

When I respond, "Thank you. Merry Christmas!" I often sense that I have actually created some tension. Many of those I wish "Merry Christmas" are probably relieved to hear someone who feels free to utter the “C” word, but all the sensitivity training they've had to undergo creates cognitive dissonance.

The opponents of "Merry Christmas" and other uses of the word "Christmas" know exactly what they’re doing. They’re disingenuous when they dismiss defenders of "Merry Christmas" as fabricating some “War on Christmas.”
Of course it's a war on Christmas, or, more precisely, a war on the religious nature of America. The left in America, like the left in Europe, wants to create a thoroughly secular society. Not a secular government – which is a desirable goal, and which, in any event, has always been the case in America – but a secular society.

Most people do not realize that the left believes in secularism as fervently as religious Jews and Christians believe in the Bible. That's why "Merry Christmas" bothers secular activists. It's a blatant reminder of just how religious America is – and always has been. So, here's a prediction: Activists on the left will eventually seek to remove Christmas as a national holiday.

Now, the left doesn't announce that its agenda is to thoroughly secularize American and European societies. Instead, they offer the inclusiveness argument: that "Merry Christmas" or "Christmas party" or "Christmas vacation" is not "inclusive."

[Schroeder_-yhsq]

I don't think saying merry Christmas should be ridiculed, but I don't think saying happy holidays should be either.

[LeaderofRussiadhbfsdfbs]

This is purely a North American problem

[Pete-Prolly]

If someone wishes me "anything" I say "thank you;" they could've said nothing. It shouldn't matter what you say if you're sincere. Taking the time to wish another person, anything at all, is indicative of good intentions.

[BrainstormerX]

Dennis Prager: Facts don’t care about your feelings
Me: Happy Holidays
Dennis Prager:

[frocco]

This is like something you'd see on an old "the Onion" episode that makes fun of conservatives and people that actually get offended by this vapid crap.

[liammcnicholas]

I was a veteran of the war on Christmas. I remember when Mrs. Claus had to donate bonds to the war effort to produce more sleighs.

[PotentialHistory]

This plays like a parody of people who actually care about this.

[davidnissim]

My dad was a veteran of the War on Christmas. He led the First Candy Cane Battalion during the Battle of Figgy Pudding. Many brave gingerbread men lost their lives that day, but they emerged victorious nonetheless.

[haris]

Religions according to PragerU:
1) Christianity
2) Judaism
3) *T H E L E F T*

[cendregaming]

Found this video from an ad...I literally thought it was some build up to a punch line...

[tamething]

Do the "Happy Holidays" pushers realize that "holiday" derives from the words "holy day"?

[BotBoy-unpz]

Conservatives: “leftists are such snowflakes they get triggered over anything”
Also conservatives:

[Garrett_Rowland]

If I know they're a Christian: Merry Christmas

If I know they're Jewish or something: I hope you have a good Hanukkah

Strangers: Happy Holidays

If somebody wishes me well, then I don't care which one they use. I know what their intention was. I'm not offended when I hear somebody use a phrase that I don't typically use; I am not a snowflake who thinks the world revolves around me.

[shatpostsupplier]

Some one: happy holida-

Dennis: stop commiting genocide on religious people.

[TheChosennn]

My Jewish friend said Merry Christmas to me, I’m Christian and then said Happy Hanukkah to him while it was Hanukkah and then we carried on our days

[Free-]

As a certified Christian™️
I can confirm that I am suffering from chronic crippling trauma because a waiter said “happy holidays” instead of “merry christmas”

I am now left shaking and crying for the rest of my life because of this trivial interaction.

[mecheatgood]

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

-Margaret Thatcher

[JazzJackrabbit]

00:11
Non-religious: "It's no big deal"
Christians: "It's a HUGE deal"
Sums this video up perfectly.

[JohnSmith-tziy]

That's like if you say "God bless you" and someone says "I'm an atheist". So annoying, like I'm being nice

[mcglubski]

I love how almost every PragerU comment section is just people dunking on their stupidity over and over again. Gives me hope for humanity lol