VDARE.COM’s annual War Against Christmas Competition, in which we offer a prize for the most outrageous attempt to abolish Christmas, is one of our most popular features. Entries now come in spontaneously throughout the year. They have already reached flood proportions. Our four previous competitions (see above) constitute an important record of an extraordinary Kulturkampf against the American majority, which future historians will analyze with the same incomprehension with which they now pore over Prohibition.
As usual, we make three points about the War Against Christmas:
It is integrally related to the war against the nation-state—against any collective expression of the historic American nation’s identity, or indeed the collective identity of every Western nation. The War Against Christmas rages just as fiercely in countries where there actually is an established religion, i.e. no spurious rationale in the form of a Church-state separation dogma.
It is “insulting and Christophobic”—as Tom Fleming put it in a classic essay in Chronicles. It implies that the religion that founded America is unfit to be mentioned in polite company. In other words, get mad!
It is unstable. The celebration of Christmas has evolved over the years. It was suppressed in Cromwell’s England, but returned. This New Prohibition, too, will pass.
http://www.vdare.com/pb/2004_christmas_p1.htm