Christmas has been stolen? Hardly. In fact, it's growing. Retailers start putting out Christmas displays in October. Radio stations start playing Christmas music on November 1. Freepers complain about clerks that wish them Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas on a mid November shopping trip. If any holiday has been stolen, it's Thanksgiving.
It would be more accurate to say that the word "Christmas" is being censored. It's becoming a forbidden, banned word -- at least out in the commercial world, and in public settings. It's a form of censorship. Instead of calling, by name, the holiday that 90 percent of the population is celebrating, the censors insist on substituting the generic word, "Holidays." I guess that's a form of "war," because war involves propaganda and censorship - but the censorship, in the service of propaganda, is what is bothering so many people, and rightly so.
That's not Christmas the retailers are promoting, but Giftmas. 'Tis the season to be spending, after all...