How do you feel after you wish a Merry Christmas to someone and that person doen not respond?

That's just strange. I concur with the other people who responded to this question, in that I've never experienced that either.

If I ever did, though..? I would find it rude as f*ck! Unless they clarified it by saying something like: "thanks, but I don't celebrate Christmas. Hope you'll have a good one, though!" But just snobbishly ignoring your well wishes, as if they weren't good enough for them..? Yikes, that's rude. :S

Just because I don't celebrate a holiday does not give me cause to be rude, nor should anyone be rude to me because I don't. When someone says "Merry Christmas"or "happy Holidays " my response has always been, thanks and please stay safe.

Good manners and common curtesy should be a part of a Christians way of life.

It hurts when someone is impolite. I don’t celebrate the holidays but I said thank you when a person wishes me a happy holiday. I tell them to be safe. As. Jehovah’s Witness the Bible tells us our words should gracious and in good taste. “Let your utterance be always with graciousness, seasoned with salt, so as to know how you ought to give an answer to each one.” (Col. 4:6)

Fine. That is on them, not me.

John4:24 God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.

What truth is there in celebrating christmas.?

“MYTH 1. Santa Claus, who lives at the North Pole, skims his way around the earth on Christmas Eve to deliver presents to good little girls and boys. Well, no one likes to spoil the fun, but it’s just not right, is it? So many homes in just one night, so much fruit cake and port? And what happens when there’s no chimney? No, this yarn just doesn’t hold water. . . .

“MYTH 2. December 25 is Christ’s birthday. Hardly. Luke’s gospel says that when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, shepherds were living outdoors and keeping watch over their flocks at night. In that region of Palestine the temperature in December averages 7° C [45° F.] by day and a lot cooler at night. There are frequent cold rains, sometimes snow in the highlands. The shepherds would be where their sheep have always been at that time of year—in an enclosed shelter. . . .

“MYTH 3. The first Christmas was in Bethlehem, when Christ was born. In fact its origin seems to have been in Rome, with the earliest record of its observance being in 336. It spread through East and West until being adopted by the Church of Jerusalem in the mid-5th century.

“In a sense, the beginning of Christmas really came in degrees and was merely a matter of the name of the celebration changing: identical pagan revelries and feastings had been going on in late December for centuries before Christ as part of the northern hemisphere winter solstice celebrations . . .

“The embracing of Christ’s birth in these pagan-based carousings evidently met no opposition from the church leaders, who seemed less interested in truth or theological purity than the chance to increase their flock and consequently their own power. . . .

“Small wonder the Puritans in Scotland, England and New England endeavoured to abolish Christmas during the 17th century, condemning it as a continuation of ‘the vanities and excesses the heathen indulge in.’

“So those annual cries to ‘put Christ back into Christmas’ ring very hollow indeed: the truth is, he was never willingly part of it.

“MYTH 4. The tradition of giving presents at Christmas follows the practice made by the gifts to Jesus of gold, frankincense and myrrh. In fact people had been exchanging gifts on December 25 and 26 for centuries before Christ as part of those solstice celebrations. The ancient Romans exchanged gifts as part of their sun worship festival, Saturnalia.

“In any case the Magi gave gifts to Jesus, not to one another, in accord with what was then customary, when visiting notable people. After all, Matthew’s gospel shows their interest in Jesus was as the future king of the Jews.

“MYTH 5. The ‘three wise men’ and the shepherds all did obeisance to Jesus as he lay in his manger. Whoever draws those cute nativity scenes showing the shepherds and the wise men together in the stable doesn’t read their Bible too well.

“Matthew’s gospel clearly states that when the ‘wise men’ did find Jesus, he was by this time in a house—and just as well, as it was probably a good two years after he was born.

“Additionally, when Matthew describes the visit of the Magi, he refers to Jesus as an infant, not as a baby. He was well out of swaddling clothes at this stage and the shepherds had long since returned to their flocks.

“Consider, too, that when Herod sought to assassinate the Messiah, he used the date supplied by the Magi and ordered that all male children up to the age of two be killed.

“Would he have made such [a] horrific—not to say extremely unpopular—order if he knew his quarry was just a few weeks old? . . .

“The Bible in fact nowhere suggests how many Magi there were. The Greek word in the gospel is magoi, from which the word ‘magic’ is derived. . . .

“MYTH 6. Christmas is a time for peace on earth and goodwill to all men. A noble thought indeed, but that’s not what the Bible says. . . .

“Interlinear translations of Luke’s gospel in the original Greek show that what multitudes of angels who appeared to the shepherds actually said was: ‘and upon earth peace among men of goodwill’.

“And that’s the difference. One boozy, bloated, over-commercialised day a year does not a Christian make; peace, the Bible says, does not come to those who celebrate a false birthday of Jesus, it comes to those who follow his teachings—all year.”

SANTA CLAUS NEVER VISITED JESUS ON HIS BIRTHDAY

what about children all over the world who are taught to believe this lie, and they dont get gifts,

And Merry Christmas to you as well!

I just figure they are preoccupied. It doesn't bother me.

I'm an atheist and I always respond merry Christmas to people who wish me a merry Christmas.

I don't recall anyone ever ignoring a holiday greeting...

It's never happened.