The War on the War on Christmas

My issue is currently (and most likely will always continue to be) the shameful, unabashed double-standards by which the world operates. One such double-standard consistently shows up about this time every year, and with greater force and anger with each new Christmas season. The way it generally goes is as follows:
1. The general population, in the good spirit of the season, will wish each other "Merry Christmas." Why do they do this? Because they look at their calendar and see that December 25 is labelled "Christmas" and they recall that "Merry Christmas" is the traditional greeting for this time of the year.
2. A significant minority consisting of a combination of Grinches, left-wingers, and idiots who cannot read the label on December 25 of their calendar, begin to raise a big fuss because they don't think that people should say "Merry Christmas." Why? Because not everyone celebrates Christmas and some people might get offended at hearing about it.
3. They make a bunch of noise until those who either just like doing things the way they've been done for hundreds of years or would simply like to wish merriment upon a specific individual on the 25th of this month are silenced.

But let me ask you this: What compensation do we who are offended by the revoking of our freedom of speech guaranteed by the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution get? I'll tell you. We get accused of intolerance. Does anyone else out there see the major inconsistency here?

This being the case, I've decided to adjust the norm and compensate for those who refuse to say or hear "Merry Christmas" and deny others the right to do the same. I have decided that both in my everyday life and right here on the world wide web, I shall wish everyone "Happy Jesus' Birthday!"

Now, I'm afraid this brings up another point. There are a few, both Christian and non-Christian alike, who argue that since we were not in the Ancient Near East to witness the birth of the incarnate Christ, we cannot know when Jesus' birthday is. To this, I reference the thousands of Sudanese refugees in the United States. Many of these people are orphans because their parents were killed in battle. Because of this, many of them do not know when their birthday is. This poses a problem when they fill out any form in the U.S. Their solution is that they just pick a day to celebrate as their birthday. I would wager that no one with even an ounce of a heart would tell these refugees that they cannot celebrate their birthday just because they don't really know when it is. This being the case, we cannot place the same demands upon the Son of the Most High God.

That having been said, I would once again like to wish everyone who reads this rant, as well as everyone who doesn't, "Happy Jesus' Birthday!"