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the G-man said:

I can't picture anyone, other than some racist perhaps, getting offended at someone saying "Happy Martin Luther King day," for example.

So why can't we say "merry Christmas" in the same spirit?


Because the name Christmas (and thus the entire holiday) IS based on the idea that Jesus was Christ. Non-Christians don't believe that. Many non-Christians see him as someone who presented himself as something he was not, and all of that falsehood is represented by this day.