We celebrate Christmas. It's the Christmas holiday / season. We celebrate Christmas day (or at least the spirit of it, ignoring other facts).

As I was cleaning up the cards we received over the past month or so, it occurs to me that 85% of the cards have some generic well wishing. Happy Holidays or some sort.

Only 10-15% of the cards I received actually said Merry Christmas. (I'm taking about 5% out of the 85% to account for friends of the Jewish faith, or otherwise non-Christian).

I get some are agnostic (but then should they be celebrating Christmas as Christmas?). Still, I'm a little dismayed that only 10% of the cards say Merry Christmas. This is not what I remember from years gone by. 20 years ago, I would bet most would have said Merry Christmas.

Sigh.....

Consider that christmas is a catholic invention. Many non-catholic Christians wish to celebrate the savior's birth but don't attend a mass. Agnostics/atheists also celebrate a good prosperous year.

This isn't a "war on christmas". "Happy Holidays" or "Seasons Greetings" is just as caring. A good wish still says they care about you, does it matter how they say it?

I'm a non-christmas-celebrating Christian. However, we put "merry christmas" on this year's card because I'm done fighting that battle and have decided that it's of no consequence.