(Photo: The Christian Post) A "Merry Christmas" sign is seen here on a Christmas tree.
Despite what appears to be a rising hostility in the U.S. toward all things “Christmas,” one organization found that Americans still prefer the traditional “Merry Christmas” greeting as opposed to the phrase “Happy Holidays.”
Sixty-four percent of adults believe people should say “Merry Christmas” while 31 percent of believe that the appropriate greeting should be “Happy Holidays,” according to a Knights of Columbus-Marist poll.
The number of people that preferred the use of the traditional Christmas greeting rose by three percent from last year, when 61 percent of those surveyed thought “Merry Christmas” was more appropriate for the season.
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The survey results are based on responses from 1,026 adults in November. Four percent of participants remained unsure of what to say.
“That we prefer ‘Merry Christmas’ by such a wide margin is indicative of the importance that Christmas has in the lives of the great majority of Americans,” said Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Carl Anderson in a statement.
The Knights of Columbus is the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization. The meaning of Christmas has been very important to the Knights of Columbus, which for more than five decades, has been at the forefront of the campaign to “Keep Christ in Christmas.”
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