While there actually isn't a "war on Christmas", I think it is fair

[B Calm]

to say Christians back in the 1960s screamed about how stores has completely bastardized Christmas by commercialism. So stores, (just to pacify the Christians) started saying Happy Holidays.

[ClassWarrior]

1. True. Watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

NGU.

[lapfog_1]

2. If you want to go back further to our Protestant roots

Christmas was shunned by all good christians. Especially all those pagan symbols like Christmas trees and lights and so on. Christmas was a Catholic holiday (or at least Episcopalian). Then those damn English folks had to go marry their queen off to some German guy, and he brought all those Christmas traditions to England and Christmas became "fashionable" and, well, we had to keep up with the English...

[RC]

3. History can be so embarrassing to those that think they know

[B Calm]

6. So Christmas is a Pagan Holiday???

[Clark2008]

7. The time of year and the more secular symbols, like the tree and

greenery are, yes.

But, obviously, it's just a settled time of year to celebrate the birth of the Christ child - even though that more than likely happened in March or April.

[valerief]

4. I still like Seinfeld's "Festivus for the Rest of Us." I have my

unadorned aluminum pole up in the living room now.

[BuyingThyme]

5. What are fake Christians without a fake war?