Merry Christmas! Though the saying “Season’s Greetings” pre-dates Merry Christmas, and was in common parlance when Christmas cards were first mass produced, our Xmas letters this year will say Merry Christmas so as not to offend our thin skinned super-weak christian friends who cannot stand in any persecution because they feel entitled to life without troubles (as if their “Christ” has not overcome the world). Because of these believers who are made of foam, blown about by any wind of doctrine, we are going to appeal to their weak sensibilities and wish everyone a Merry Christmas; even though our Christmas letter will not likely reach most until after the New Year, making the common Victorian Christian winter greeting of “season’s greetings” a much more suitable salutation. Though it offends me to attempt to appeal to the sensibilities of the senseless, I am not so thin skinned as to allow that offence to end my friendships with those Xtians.
Being a hardly Christian and mostly pagan celebration rejected by puritans, our family barely celebrates “Christmas” though, we celebrate Advent. This year we will be letting Abigail choose the gifts we send through Compassion Canada as our present for the birthday boy.
“It is not lawful, O Stranger, for us to change the date of Crissmas, but would that Zeus would put it into the minds of the Niatirbians to keep Exmas at some other time or not to keep it at all. For Exmas and the Rush distract the minds even of the few from sacred things. And we indeed are glad that men should make merry at Crissmas; but in Exmas there is no merriment left.” ~ C.S. Lewis, Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus
Merry Xmas,
Timothy Favelle