Approaching a stranger with a warm greeting of “Merry Christmas” is a declaration of ignorance, and replacing it with “Happy Holidays” would do wonders in aiding the battle against prejudice, explains an opinion writer published in The Star this week.
As a section of a “Big Debate” feature on the legitimacy of the Christmas greeting, the Toronto newspaper printed a piece by Sadie-Rae Werner, a senior economics student at the Minerva Schools at KGI and founder and editor-in-chief of the school’s independent student news outlet The Minerva Quest. Her response is an emphatic “no,” opening with discontent that Starbucks backtracked after its 2015 move to eliminate Christmas-specific imagery from its holiday cups.
“When 500 Starbucks cups going walking down the street covered in Christmas trees and reindeer they are sending a definite message about the reigning position of Christianity in our purportedly secular society,” Werner declared. “The red cup was a step toward atoning for the overt lack of inclusion of other religions in corporate holiday celebrations.”
Although the elimination of Christmas-specific language and imagery is a cause of controversy each year, few (if any) Christians challenge businesses that recognize the holidays of different faiths.
Werner, however, laments the “open disregard and, at times, disdain” she claims…
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