The Christmas season is filled with platitudes wishing you good cheer. When shopping this time of year, many people tell me to have a “merry Christmas.” A couple of years ago, I decided that “secular season’s greetings” made for a humorous response to Christians attempting to foist their beliefs upon absolute strangers.

At the time I said that I would probably never say the phrase to anyone, and although I have yet to say it, I’m certainly tempted every time someone I don’t know wishes me a merry Christmas.

Morah and I are going out shopping today, and my goal is to say it to as many people as I can who feel it cogent to disregard that some people may not believe the same superstitions as they.