Christ, what next?

Conservatives have taken aim at a new and insidious cultural trend - tolerance and goodwill during the holiday season. Bill O'Reilly, our national representative of all things good and wholesome (when he's not making dirty phone calls in the middle of the night to employees) is especially incensed, and vows "to stand up for Christmas." It seems that he along with Lou Dobbs and Charles Krauthammer are finally outraged that anyone would send cards with the message "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" because they don't want to offend their customers, clients, friends, acqaintances, family and friends who might not be Christian with a more innocuous greeting than "Merry Christmas."

Of course, anyone who has been alive in this world for more than a few years knows that the phrases "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" have been around for quite awhile -
"Should we send Hi Ho Saturnalia greetings to our customers this year?"
"No, some of them might be that new religion, you know, um, Christian, better send them a Happy Holidays parchment."
"You know, if this trend keeps up, people will forget that the reason for the season is Saturn."
And so, Romans and the world soon forgot the real reason we celebrate during this time of year, but gained the goodwill and patronage of their customers, which, if they're anything like people today, was probably alot more meaningful to them, and did more to keep their families fed and clothed that Saturn ever did.

If O'Reilly, and Lou Dobbs and Charles Krauthammer are outraged at "Season's Greetings" they might want to check with the sales department at Fox News, CNN and The Washington Post.
All three of those companies send "Season's Greetings" to their customers in the hopes of keeping their business another year, which by the way, pays the salaries of these three men. Ask the sales manager what he thinks about them making life more difficult for his sales reps with their "Merry Christmas" political crusade, I can imagine what he would say...