Not having signs that say Christmas is "anti-Christmas idiocy" only if the purpose of Christmas is a commercial endeavor.
So, is your complaint that Christmas isn't somehow commercialized enough and you need yet more signage and blinking lights to remind you of Christ's birth?
I absolutely refuse to demand that the marketplace cater to me religiously since the marketplace is not where my faith rests.
I have unshakable faith in God and Jesus Christ.
I do not have unshakable faith in Target or Cost Plus. I do not need Cost Plus to tell me what season it is or how to celebrate the birth of our Lord. I need Cost Plus to have a decent price on marzipan and Speculaas.
Celebrating Christ's birth should not be affected in the least by whether or not Walmart/Kmart/Sears/Costco/Krogers/Sam's/Penney's/Target /Walgreens/etc. choose to call December 25th "Christmas" or not.
Our society has a very serious problem when we begin looking to the marketplace to stroke our egos and justify our faith through signs and commercials.
The only sign we need is in the Bible.
AMEN!!
Sigh!! I will leave it to actual CHRISTIANS to complain how commercial Christmas always is. Good luck, because the great Charlie Brown Christmas special was made in the 1960s and nothing’s changed. Except that now they call them “holiday trees” and “holiday wrap” and maybe next “holiday nativity scenes.”
If it gets to that latter, I want to see a Kwanzaa nativity scene with Karenga and his friends putting young naked women into vises and electrocuting them with live wires.
The point was why refrain from saying Christmans when they are pushing Christmas. Nothing to do with it's commercialization only the PC crap the says we can sell it but not say it.