I never stopped saying Merry Christmas. I don't associate it with religion but Santa Clause and gifts, that's all. People that make a big deal about it are ignorant. That's all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year OSA folks, Im out....
Merry Christmas to all!!
Also, for all intents and purposes Christmas in the US is a secular spending binge. It has nothing to do with Jesus, except that it's one of the two times that Christmas'n'Easter Christians go to church.
I'm not super familiar with the Gospels but something tells me that Jesus would prefer that we donate our disposable income to charity instead of using his birthday to justify buying ourselves a new M&P*. Except Christmas isn't really his birthday so much as it's the result of early Christians co-opting a couple of different pagan equinox celebrations.
*I think I'm using his birthday to justify buying a new M&P