The "War On Christmas" has roots in vicious anti-semitism and paranoid anti-communism...

[Archae]

Oh yeah.

From Ford to O'Reilly; From the John Birch Society to the AFA; Welcome to the 'War on Christmas'

The "War on Christmas" is becoming as American as police shootings of unarmed Black men, drones striking weddings in Afghanistan and the revolving door at the Defense Department. While Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and the American Family Association may be some of the 21st century's chief promulgators of the "War on Christmas," interestingly enough, it was the far-right John Birch Society that followed in the footsteps of Henry Ford, who, Daniel Denvir wrote in Politico last year, "was an avid proponent of the idea that someone - or more precisely, some group - was waging a war on Christmas."

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2014/11/28/112328/00/Dominionism_in_the_military/From_Ford_to_O_Reilly_From_the_John_Birch_Society_to_the_AFA_Welcome_to_the_War_on_Christmas_

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/12/16/9325/8481

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I sometimes want to ask these "Christians"

who have their panties in such a big wad over the (completely unfounded) fear that Christmas will disappear because of evil liberals and stores whose employees say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Christmas":

Is your faith in your God and Jesus so feeble that you must compel the entire country, including retail stores, to celebrate Christmas in order to bolster your own beliefs? If your nightmare came true and no public celebration of Christmas were allowed, would you still believe? Or, lacking the affirmations of everybody else, would you just give up? Is your Jesus just a kind of Tinker Bell who will fade away and die if not enough children clap for him? What kind of weak-ass religion is it that requires everybody to acknowledge one of its major holidays whether or not they actually celebrate it? If you really, sincerely believe Jesus is the son of God and he was given to the world to redeem its sins, you wouldn't give a crap if some minimum-wage store clerk at the mall defiantly said "Merry Christmas" to some beleaguered shopper wearing a yarmulke. Isn't it enough that your sins are forgiven and you'll go to heaven and cavort with the angels for eternity? Why do you need every goddamn (if you'll excuse the expression) public place to be full of manger scenes and Santa Clauses and "The Little Drummer Boy"?