Well, actually, it's the other way around. Easter falls near Passover. Passover came first.
You can bet your last denarius on it?
My only Roman expression is "Deader than Julius Caesar. " I use that one quite often.
"Sixteen to one!"
The under-30s must be Rocky Horror fans.
I've described a certain sketchy bar in town to tourists as "the place where riff meets raff" and often get a limp, quizzical smile in response.
I wonder if the same people who make smart nuanced arguments about why a country like ours - whose traditions and history are deeply entwined with Christianity / whose "culture" one could say has a Christian imbuing - should shift toward Happy Holidays versus Merry Christmas would make the same argument that, say, a predominately Arabic country, with Christian and Buddhist minority cultures, should not use Arabic expressions for, say holiday greetings, and, instead, find generic ones to make the Christian and Buddhist minorities feel more included. Or, would these same people be arguing that we should respect the history and traditions of a predominately Arabic country and let them continue using their Arabic expressions.
IMHO, either view has an argument. One, all countries and cultures should "homogenize" their traditions and customs to make every minority within that country feel included or, two, a country should keep its historical traditions and customs out of respect to its history and majority and that the minorities in those countries should understand that is part of the bargain one strikes living in a country with a different majority culture.
As someone who frequently visits the largest Muslim country in the world, which also has significant Christian and Hindu populations, I can attest to the fact that they have no problems including everyone in the appropriate greetings. Now, Muslim holidays and Christian holidays don't typically overlap, but it doesn't seem to infuriate anyone that they live among others and have no problems issuing sincere greetings and well wishes at times that are significant. Of course, I find most Muslims to be nicer, in general, than most Christians.
Indonesia is one Muslim country and, based on several close friends from Iran and Saudi Arabia, not necessarily representative of all Muslim countries (they have outright told me you, unfortunately, don't want to be Christian in those two countries). That said, my post was not a comment - at all - on Muslim countries - or their people - but on whether those in the West who are passionate about secularizing the West - even trying to micromanage Christmas greetings - in part, based on an argument of inclusiveness, would apply the same standard to Muslim countries or would be more accommodative to a country's majority culture when it isn't Christian.