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Thank you. You highlight another issue where I could not disagree more with some of the posters here. As a Christian, I think it is fantastic for stores to no longer use a Christmas theme as part of a capitalistic profit push tied to my most important religious holiday. Capitalism is all well and fine, within reason, so long as it maintains a secular face. The last thing I want to see is for my Christianity or anyone else's wholesome religious beliefs devalued, marginalized, and corrupted in the name of avarace-driven, "it's all about me" consumerism. I do not want stores making my religion look like tangible goods and commerce are what matters the most, especially at Christmas time.

I will put together a letter and hand it out to all of the local stores who do NOT use a "Christmas" theme as part of their holiday sales, thanking them for respecting the sanctity of my Christian beliefs. I will also put together a second letter for the local stores that still use a Christmas theme, telling them that I will shop elsewhere until they stop inappropriately selling merchandise in the name of Christianity.

Interestingly, the Christ tossed the moneychangers from His Father's House, the Temple.

I'll risk the tag of "Scrooge" for asking that Christmas be celebrated not as Santa showering gifts and trinkets upon arbitrarily good little boys and girls, but as a celebration of the birth of the Christ.

Is it too much to ask that God and His Son not be packaged and sold to people in a manner that diminishes the message? By all means, have a holiday for gift-giving. Have a day set aside for sharing goods with loved ones. Just try and not equate the child in the manger, who satisfies the spiritual hunger of man, with the satisfying of materialistic hunger.

This thread has got somewhat off track, It wasn't intended to be about "holier than thou", about who was most charitable, nor a discussion on that age old chestnut, the commercialisation of Christmas.

It was about fighting the methodical and persistent eradication of Christmas by the left wing secularists who would eradicate all religion if they could.

There are many traditions associated with Christmas, some are secular, some are religious. Christmas trees, carolling, the Messiah, the Nutcracker, Christmas decorations, parties, and gift giving, to name but a few. All or most of these things are slowly being stamped out by the left. Soon the "magic of Christmas" that we all (hopefully) knew as a child will be gone, obliterated, by the left wing loons.

That's what I was fighting.