text: interesting responses to merry christmas question? funny how some people responded to my question, "will americans have to move to canada to say, merry christmas?  as a child, we sang traditional christmas carols in school, and those children who were particularly religious, prayed before eating their lunch.  we all respected it even if we didn't do it ourselves.    christmas is a national holiday.  why is it that some well-meaning liberals think it's their duty to sterilize it and turn it into a secular holiday.  i say, hate us if you want to, but leave us alone.  no one is forcing you to sing "away in a manger". ok?  one person narrowmindedly "assumed" i didn't recognize other religions or that i was "shoving" a religion down someone's throat.  that's funny because, christmas is not celebrated by mormons yet they aren't crying about it.  it's not celebrated by jewish people yet they respect our right to celebrate it.  my athiest friends respect our tradition too.   liberals, please get a clue. i so agree with you! there is no reason to take tradition out of holidays and the classroom. as a child i loved the christmas parties we had before christmas vacation. now we can't call it christmas vacation its winter break, and most classrooms aren't even allowed to have a christmas tree in them. we can still have a winter party as long as it doesn't have any traditional christmas images, this includes santa (because if he doesn't represent all races it is also politically incorrect) for reasons like these, i stopped teaching and am homeschooling my children, they are being robbed of some very fun activities because of a few people that just don't get it. what cracks me up is we can't pray in school even if we want to but then there are others fighting to be allowed to pray to their gods because their religion requires pray at certain times of the day. we have tried so hard to make everyone else feel welcome and happy that we have forgotten about the whole premise on which this country was founded on, the freedom of religion.  happy holidays and have a great day!  ps... for all those saying christmas is a pagan holiday... yes and no, all of our holidays have traditions from other religions from around the world not just paganism. and, technically since being celebrated in the states it has been considered by most a christian holiday (regardless of the original origins) for the christians that say it wasn't even jesus’ real b-day, you are right, but it is the day that was chosen to observe it, considering the calendar had been changed so many times we really have no idea when it was.