In the words of Cosmo Kramer, "You're freakin' me out!" Holiday - from the Old English "Holy Day". Holy Shiite, I can get the connection. Don't most European substitute "vacation" for HOLIDAY? What are they thinking? They could be offending someone! Good thing we have that First Amendment stuff to keep things in line. I'm all for separating that Church and State; like the wheat and the chaff, the cream from the milk, the rich from the poor.
In the interest of Constitutional Unity let's invoke the Costanza holiday of Festevus (for the rest of us). Now that's a real Holi-day!
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, whoever humbles himself will be exalted - Matthew 23:12