Merry Christmas to all Christians among my readers, celebrating the day Our Lord was incarnate in the Virgin Mary and came to earth for the propitiation of our sins. You will be saved, definitely.
Merry Christmas also to all cultured non-Christians out there, those who espouse any other religion or none, agnostic or atheist, who don’t believe all that nonsense but do know that the culture they love is Christian. Hence they too have something to celebrate for, even if Our Lord wasn’t born on this day, our culture definitely was. You too will be saved, probably.
Merry Christmas also to all those who don’t believe in Christ or God in general, don’t know much about Christian or any other culture and see Christmas mainly as a retail opportunity. You probably don’t care one way or the other whether or not you’ll be saved, but, what with all the Christmas sales, I’m sure you’ve done enough saving of your own.
Merry Christmas also to those who don’t believe in Christ but hate him anyway, who loathe the culture and civilisation that owe their existence to Christ, and who seek to destroy them as fervently as they have done so consistently for 1,400 years. I only wish you a merry Christmas to see that look on your face, to be honest. And I doubt you’ll be saved, but, lucky for you, it’s not up to me to decide.
And a happy, peaceful new year to all!
And a Merry Christmas to you too. May you long continue to assail your readers with wit and that rarest of commodities, the sense which is said to be common, but is in truth increasingly scarce.
A merry Christmas to you and yours, Mr B!
I am lazy and flawed enough to belong to your second category, but reserve an immense gratitude and respect for those of you who are in the first.
In the spirit of this time of giving, I hope you resolve to give us more of your wisdom and wit into, what I hope is, a blessed 2018.