Now for Christians, I am not entirely sure what the debate is, the message is clear and in the context of the word Christmas itself. Christ and Mass are combined to provide little doubt that the celebration should be on the birth of the Savior Christ in other words, if you recognize yourself as a Christian then the proper greeting should always be “Merry Christmas.
In terms of other religions or in certain case non-religions, no greeting or recognition is required and quite honestly, the act of wishing one a Merry Christmas should never be taken as any more than a wish of hope and a greeting of joy. Even for the most staunch atheist or agnostic, deriving any negative connotations from this is sheer folly.
The point here is clear, it is a greeting and as with all greetings it is up to the individual receiving the greeting to reciprocate a return greeting, ignore greeting, or respond in a neutral or opposite response. In any these cases, the owness is not on the greeter but on the greetee.
