There are religious holidays taking place every day of the year. Does the teacher walk around wishing people a happy holidays constantly, without pause, every day of every year? The sign doesn't make sense unless that happens, and I bet it doesn't. The explanation given is bullshit.

I live in an area where Islam is the dominant faith and have been told merry christmas more than times than I can count the last few days by Muslims, and when it's eid I say eid mubarak to Muslim friends, colleagues, whoever I happen to run into when I'm out and about. I don't wish them a "happy holidays" on the off chance some other religious group somewhere is celebrating some other religious holiday at the same time as they are, and they don't wish me a "happy holidays" at christmas either. Every justification I've seen for saying happy holidays is intellectually dishonest and comes from extreme anti-theists or deranged white liberals who are offended on behalf of minority groups.

I'm an atheist but if you insisted on wishing me a happy holidays at Christmas I'd probably just think you were some type of socially awkward oddball and keep my distance. But I live in western Europe, atheism is normal here and people don't feel the need to constantly peddle child like contrarianism just to score brownie points against the religious establishment. We're capable of giving sincere religious greetings without feeling like we're undermining or doing a disservice to our personal views.

I feel like American atheists, if this sub is anything to go by, pick trivial and silly battles. You guys honestly come across as a bunch of vindictive children at time.