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I was raised a Jew and spent 20 years as an atheist. I immersed myself in Buddhism, a little Hinduism, and finally came to believe in God in my 40s.

I am not, and have never been, a Christian.

But I love Christmas. I remember in the 50s and even the 1960s, what a magic feeling the Christmas season had. There was a lot of public Christian symbolism, including mangers and crosses in the town square -- along, of course, with Santa Claus and Frosty. "Silent Night" was ubiquitous, as was almost all of the wonderful pop and traditional music associated with the Christmas Season.

Even though my family was Jewish, the story of Jesus' life and death, and the focus on reverance as a foundation for the joy of the Christmas season touched me deeply.

The Progressive secularists and their lawyers have had much success in driving the holy spirit out of public view and public discourse -- to nobody's real benefit. All they have really accomplished is to replace good will with grumpy mean-spiritedness. They have kicked Christ out of Christmas, and have traded away good wll towards men and women in exchange for a soulless, petulant, self-righteously cynical low-grade misanthropy.

And then, to justify their narcissitically snobbish disdain, they complain that Christmas is too commercial and that it has no meaning.

That it's all just about inconvenience and going into debt and driving yourself nuts just to be nice to a bunch of family members and friends and perhaps business associates you probably don't really like that much anyway.

My 1st grade daughter has weekly music classes in her pubic school and I have been stunned to learn that she has not once heard the song "Silent Night." (I've since introduced her to Bing Crosby's version.)

Western Christianity is so core to the founding principles, traditional culture and social organization to our nation that without it being the vasly mainstream world-view throughout centuries of our nation's history, the USA would never come to exist and prosper, and all the greatness it has contributed to the world would have been lost for centuries, if not forever.

I would love to see a US President declare Dember 25 not only as Christmas, but also as American Christian Heritage Day.

It is in no way an establishment of religion for the US government to recognize and respect that without Christianity as the vasly mainstream world-view throughout American history, our nation would never come to exist and prosper to a level never imagined.

I would love to see a US presiden de