War on Christmas Part 1: Somewhere, pagans are laughing. . .

I just heard this morning that one of my state senators, local ass-hat Chris Buttars, has declared a war on the 'war-on-Christmas' that is destroying our precious capitalist holiday. If you're not aware, Buttars is believed a closet racist, an open homophobe and has pushed for "Divine Design" to be taught in schools. Yup, just what you might expect from the radical Christian Right in Utah. What? Is that not very objective of me? Fuck it, he's a loon and I don't like homophobes. He's not the only one championing this fight against our favorite stolen holiday (actually, mine is Halloween), Bill O'Really and Pawn Hannity have chimed in more than once on this issue.
What exactly IS the issue? It seems that somewhere, some Machiavellian organization is slowly trying to destroy the Christian holiday, Christmas. How do we know this? Chain stores and businesses choose to display the more secular 'Happy Holidays' message instead of Merry Christmas. Damnation! How dare these store that cater to a large, diverse population respect the varied beliefs of that very society! Why should they take into account the other various holidays that occur around the same time, like Hanukkah, Eid ul-Adha, Kwanzaa and Festivus? Well, maybe because it's the right thing to do? Yet, the Christians are the only ones who seem to care, you really never hear atheists screaming about being forced to say Merry Christmas, or Jews or Muslims bitching because their holidays don't get mentioned. And if they did, I'm sure you'd hear some Christian scolding them for missing the spirit of the holidays.
And I just accidentally stumbled into my point. It's the spirit, if you will, that should be understood and enjoyed, not "it's-Christmas-because-Jesus-was-born-and-we're-celebrating-his-birthday!" And actually, it's most likely not, if know a little bit about history and some religion. So, Buttars, O'Rielly and all the rest of you oppressive Christian asses, calm down, get off your high horse, grab a glass of egg nog, and just enjoy the Holidays with the rest of us.