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We had a wonderful Freeper response for Michelle's first effort, which you can see at this link:

MY CHRISTMAS CRUSADE (Michelle Malkin is organizing against those taking Christ out of Christmas)

Let's keep the ball rolling and let those who wish to take Christ out of Christmas know where they stand!

What “holidays?” Could someone please tell me what “holidays” we are celebrating? Seems to me that the only options are Christmas, Chanukkah, or Kwanzaa, all of which are, to one degree or another, religious holidays. So, since we cannot publicly celebrate religious days, then what exactly are we celebrating during the so-called “holiday season?”

Maybe the people who have such a hatred of Christmas should work on December 25th!

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"I thought it was strange that they would exclude the birthday boy from his own party," Schweitzberger said. "Everybody knows that Christmas is not spelled with an X."

Actually, it is:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/80/X0008000.html

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Xmas

SYLLABICATION:	X·mas
PRONUNCIATION:	krsms, ksms
NOUN:	Christmas.
ETYMOLOGY:	From X, the Greek letter chi, first letter of Greek Khrstos, Christ. See Christ.
USAGE NOTE:	Xmas has been used for hundreds of years in religious writing, where the X represents a Greek chi, the first letter of , “Christ.” In this use it is parallel to other forms like Xtian, “Christian.” But people unaware of the Greek origin of this X often mistakenly interpret Xmas as an informal shortening pronounced (ksms). Many therefore frown upon the term Xmas because it seems to them a commercial convenience that omits Christ from Christmas.