Worst Job Ever.

Dan Piraro is my favorite...

Have you guys seen the "American Dad" episode on this topic? Stan Smith knows the true meaning of Christmas.

In other news, my cousin (who is a teacher at an elementary school) had to get rid of their Christmas-specific decorations (Santa.. a tree.. of course the nativity scenes.. etc.) and they couldn't even celebrate Christmas festivities. They had "Holiday Week."

As a true atheist, I do not feel offended in the slightest by Christmas celebrations. Because rather than viewing it as a holiday centered on the birth of Christ, I celebrate family and the wholesome feeling of giving. I don't know why the hell everybody is freaking out about this. Non-Christians will celebrate the way that they want to, ragardless of whether they are offended by JC Penny's Christmas display or not. Are non-Christians REALLY offended? or are advertisers and the rest of the media trying to make worse that which is political correctness? What the hell is with political correctness when EVERYBODY IS DIFFERENT FROM EVERYBODY! It is IMPOSSIBLE to be completely correct in every instance. If we can't be correct in all aspects, why strive to be correct at all?

It *urks* me to no end when times of love, gathering, and kindness is overshadowed by the dick-licks that feel that the true origins are offensive. The origin of Christmas was to celebrate Jesus' birth; to bring family together that ONE TIME during the year and share gifts and tasty food; to remember past Christmases when Uncle Frank was still an alcoholic and decided to piss on the lawn ornaments. What happened to that? Why should we change how we celebrate Christmas NOW when the holiday itself hasn't changed? Go out! Celebrate Christmas! Eat cookies until you vomit! Have fun and be joyous. Or you can do like my Grandmother does (I call her MiMi) and have a vanilla/chocolate split cake with coconut shavings and sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. Whatever. Just celebrate and be Merry.

I am Christian, but do not celebrate Christmas or Easter. (I know I am gonna take a virtual beating for that!)

I just ignore all the happy hoopla that goes on around me. Just like most Americans ignore Passover when I am celebrating that holiday.

Skin has gotten alot thinner on folks these day. That's the Evolution that's happening today.

(It takes a Village!)

"There's a War On Christmas, I tells ya!"

Worst Bizarro evar.

Christmas is a major Christian religious holiday. The entire country is subjected to Christmas for a solid 2-3 months every year. Maybe it's not such a bad idea to draw the line somewhere to keep the separation between church and state. We don't live in a theocracy--yet. I'm delighted that people are free to practice their religion freely, but there are reasonable limits that protect the integrity of our democracy and religious freedom. Religion has no place in public schools or government institutions--this protects us all regardless of our beliefs.

Hmm, there's no actual verified accounts of people renaming Christmas 'Winterval' though, is there? Sounds to me like more Daily Mail-style rants about stuff that isn't actually happening, to blame local councils and Muslims for things they aren't actually doing...

You know, I think we should just split Christmas into two holidays and get the whole thing over with. Make Christmas the real Christian religious holiday and then make a second big winter-themed consumer holiday with Santa Claus and presents and all that hullabaloo that everyone, no matter what actual religious holiday they're celebrating, can take part in.

I bet people wouldn't react so negatively to Christmas if it didn't last TWO FRICKIN MONTHS every year. Get over yourselves!

I'm an Atheist as well, and I'm not bothered by Christmas in the least. I rather enjoy it. And I'm always confused by people who declare that there's a war on Christmas because Christmas as we know it has...well, nothing to do with the Christian holiday.

Unless Santa really did tell Mrs. Frosty she was going to have a baby reindeer named Rudolph under a pine tree. And Geoffery the Giraffe, Mario and Master Chief came to visit little Rudolph, guided by his bright nose.

holy christ, christmas has devolved into a capitalist festival. even our modern image of santa was created by the coca cola corporation in the 1920s.

i'm an atheist; we don't care about getting rid of christmas. you guys do a pretty damn good job of secularizing it on your own anyway.

This Winterval thing is crap invented by the press.

"Political correctness gone mad!" is usually said by people who wan't to be able to be free to call black people n*gger.

There have never been any Wintervals, nor any instance of councils in PC areas having all the bin liners blue to remove the racial negative conotations of a BLACK bin liner.

Nor the EU saying bananas have to be straight.

It is all just hokum spun by the right wing.
A carefully manicured charade to alow the white wealthy west to feel put upon.

Well said Pol X and others, there is no "War on Christmas" but the war that every happy little consumer wages themselves by making December the biggest shopping month of the year. Not that I am anything but complicit. I love Christmas.

I'm 30 and the last Christmas play I was in (in primary school) was "Jack and the Beanstalk". Nothing religious there and I went to a church school. I believe I played a horse but I forget now. Besides, if people really want to keep Christmas traditional, shouldn't we be celebrating the Pagan holiday that it subsumed?

But please people, unless you want to sound like the Daily Hate stop using the phrase "Political Correctness Gone Mad" in cold blood.

BTW, I would just like to correct reid and anyone else who thinks Coca-cola is behind our image of Santa. He has been drawn that way since at least 1863. Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp

There was a Winterval. Once. in 1998.

And the Daily Mail bang out the same story about it every year, about how the multi-cultural PC lefties are ruining Christmas for right-minded bigots everywhere.