The war on Christmas

According to the Huffington Post, there has been an ongoing war between happy holidays and Merry Christmas. The position that many priests and clergy take upon this is, Merry Christmas, because holiday means quite literally, holy day, which refers to the day of Christmas. So it is ridiculous to change it to happy holidays because it is the same thing and the reason that there is this season is because of Christmas. Also holidays means that there is more than one holiday. Even atheists celebrate Christmas, it may be for the wrong reasons but they do. And Hanukah is always changing dates, for it fell on thanksgiving this year. So it should remain Merry Christmas.