My views on political correctness and Christmas

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I posted this as a reply to a previous discussion but I realised it was a year old, and instead of losing my words I thought I'd start a new thread as I think it's good to discuss it. It was discussing companies who are afraid of saying "Merry Christmas" even in reply to someone saying it to them. I think politcal correctness in this sense is going the wrong way. If you remove the ability to say anything that somebody somewhere may not believe in then what are we left with? We'll have to change almost everything and we'd be left with a grey uninspired world! Take a train station ticket office for instance: Teller: "Where would you like to travel to today sir?" Customer: "How dare you!!! The theory of relitivity clearly shows that all movement is relative to the universe around me, it is not simply I that is moving, but the universe around me! So it is not only I that is travelling to somewhere, it is somewhere also travelling to me!!!" Teller: "How dare YOU sir! I completely reject the theory of relitivity and all that it stands for, the universe revolves around the earth!" That's a silly example of course that will really not happen, but in all honesty where is the path of political correctness actually heading? Probably not to a perfect eutopia where all is equal, but an opressive society where nobodys view is welcome any more unless it matches some sort of global middle ground. I think instead of removing the ability to say Merry Christmas, they should add to it instead, imbracing other ideas and beliefs. "Have a very Merry Christmas or joyous Hanukkah" could be one thing to put to a sign for a start. What are your views on this?