>>And I do try to find a polite way to move myself out of anything related to religion, including these greetings. If one really insists, I then reply with the above "not applicable, I'm not a member".
Why not just "Bah! Humbug!"
Doesn't worry me:Happy Christmas you curmudgeonly Yugoslav. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
