I also get upset about Thanksgiving. More and more I see 'Thanksgiving' being dropped, and 'Harvest' used instead. I guess giving thanks is too religious for some.
Let's face it. Christianity is under assault. Christmas has become "Holiday." Christmas school break is "Winter Break." Christmas parties are Holiday or (worse) Solstice parties. The old Easter break is now "Spring Break." In many areas of the State of New York the spring break revolves around Passover, and children attend school on Holy Thursday and Good Friday.
Now, why has all this changed in the past 30 years or so? Has the proportion of the population calling itself Christian fallen? No. Jews have fallen from three to two percent. Muslims have risen to about three percent. But the profession of Christianity hovers where it has always hovered: about 85-90%.
So, why has the culture of 85-90% of the population been stripped away? Because of assault by secularists and militant anti-Christians.
Possessing a majority means something. It means that those in the majority can get their way (sorry, that's just the way it is), subject to Constitutional safeguards. The Constitution only mentions religion twice. It prohibits a religious test for office, and it prohibits the CONGRESS from establishing a religion.
In the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and well before Christians (and other religions) were able to use the public square to celebrate their religion and culture ("the CONGRESS shall make NO LAW abridging the Freedom of Religion," meaning people can practice their religion anywhere, anytime). How did a creche on the lawn of City Hall threaten anyone? The quest for the removal of such non-threatening symbols is driven by one thing and one thing only: hatred and fear of Christianity. One does not see militants attempting to remove Stars of David, Menorahs, and Crescent Moons wherever they are found. The First Amendment is used as a canard to veil the real reasons for the anti-Christian acts. EVERYONE knows this to be true: certainly Christians do, and the secularists and anti-Christians know it, too, but dare not admit it.
The ability of the 85-90% Christian majority to use public places (for which they pay) to celebrate their culture SHOULD NOT be abridged. Jews, Muslims, etc. can use them too. It was this way for the first 200 years of the republic, until Christians started caving to the atheists, secularists, and anti-Christians. We have it on our power to return this country to its proud traditions. Now, we just have to do it.