If Christmas is under siege, it is not from the use of the vague greetings "Happy Holidays" but from the transformation of Christmas from a religious feast to a secular holiday. The secularization of Christmas may be accelerating, but it is not new. The tendency in that direction is evident in a careful examination of Charles Dickens's iconic story A Christmas Carol.
In all fairness, Dickens does acknowledge the sacred basis of Christmas. Exactly four times. The first comes from the mouth of Scrooge's nephew Fred:
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