Is the word "merry" becoming archaic?

Aside from “merry Christmas”, how often do you use the word merry or see it used by others? Fox news thinks that saying “happy holidays” instead of “merry Christmas” is part of a mythical war on Christmas. Maybe it is in part simply a linguistic change in addition to a recognition that not everybody is a Christian and a preference for a pleasant sounding alliteration.

As a side note, the meaning of the word merry has been watered down over the years. For example, the first line of the popular carol should be punctuated as “Rest ye merry, gentlemen…” and not “Rest ye, merry gentlemen…” The current meaning is not the one originally intended is such phrases as merry old England, Robin Hood and his merry men and the “Eat, drink and be merry” quotation from Ecclesiastes. Link