I'm all for removing the word "Christmas" from all its' commercialization. Lets get rid of the "Holiday" tree, and the sake of buying merchandise just to buy merchandise, SATAN clause, and any and all of the other pagan symbolism and garbage which has tainted the true meaning of Christmas.
The more we allow this religous day to be purified, the more it will mean. The less commercialized, the more personalized.
We are not buying much of anything this year, not even a tree. Giving thanks for having each other, for God's mercy, grace, and forgiveness, and sharing each others love and company is worth more than any merchandise (especially considering that most of the items you buy today are made via slave labor in communist china).
Only when we have purified this frankenstein holiday will Christ be allowed to shine through.
Many object to the gifts and trinkets around which Christmas is associated. Nor has Christmas been universally accepted among Christians. The English Puritans and Scottish Presbyterians were opposed to the recognition of the holiday. The influence first of Anglicans and the Dutch Reformed and later of Lutherans and Catholics helped overcome the hostility to Christmas that existed in much of early America. Even today, some separatist fundamentalists and very conservative Calvinists denounce Christmas, pointing out the pagan origins of some of the symbols, such as the Yule log and the Christmas tree, and the absence of any evidence, Biblical or not, that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th.
However, our society is not endangered by the secular trappings of Christmas, nor by Christians who hold to extra-Biblical traditions. Secular humanism and its offspring, political liberalism and moral relativism, are the enemy of America and Christian-based civilization. The battle over Christmas is just one front in a decades old fight between the enemies of what true Christians and real Americans hold dear and those who wish to preserve and restore our republic and the traditional moral and social order.
If the good guys lose, we will face a future where the Gospel is suppressed by harsh, Soviet-like measures and where we will be forced to follow every whim of a ruling elite. The secular humanists started this war, but Christians must win it.