This "war on christmas" bullshit has been baffeling the hell out of me....I mean, Christians, a persecuted minority? Is anyone keeping anyone from celebrating Christmas? Not the last time I attended an elementary school holiday pageant and listened to hark the herald angels and silent night So, I have been searching the web to see what the deal is, no one has really nailed the true nut-si-ness of the o'reilley and american family crowd,
but I give first prize here to Cynthia Tucker in the atlanta journal constitution
Happy go-out-and-trample-a-pagan day! | ajc.com: "Perhaps the oddest thing about this cultural imbroglio is the insistence by some Christian purists that stores � palaces of consumerism � should observe the season with declarations of 'Merry Christmas!' The weeks-long orgy of buying that begins around Thanksgiving and ends, mercifully, with the new year celebrates consumption, selfishness and excess � a time when Christians turn the other check. This is probably not what Jesus would do.
There is nothing in the Gospels about battling other parents for the last XBox 360 or knocking down other shoppers to get to discounted personal computers. There are no Christmas sales in the New Testament, nor is there instruction on returning the items you didn't like. There are no guidelines on the dubious practice of 're-gifting.' (If you look closely, however, you can probably find admonitions against cursing out the motorist who got to that one empty parking space before you.)
So what difference does it make if retailers refer to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or holidays? Merchants are not in the business of spiritual uplift. Those who are looking for that would do well to spend a little less time at the mall."