Should we take "Christ" out Christmas?

[Dmick90]

Torillian said:

Dmick90 said:
Christmas is a household name, you're never going to change that. It's just too big a holiday to try to change it. Liberals are trying to take God/Christ out of the pledge, schools, and everything. It really aggravates me. Just leave it alone it's not hurting anyone, that's the way it's been for centuries.

 

"way it's been for centuries" seems a bit much.  Only information I've seen for the pledge says that Under God was added in the 50's.  Hardly centuries of history.  Given that it was written in 1892 and the Under God part added in 1954 it's spent about half its history without a single mention of god so we'd just be going back to its original intentions.  

I have no specific disdain for any religion over another, but it's my belief that the government should stay away from anything that would seem like condemnation or allegiance to any one religion or the existence or not of religion and the pledge of allegiance is included in that.

Christmas is a holiday that has been around for centuries, and while the pledge has not been around for centuries it has been around quite a long time. The United States afterall was and is founded as a nation under God, so to try to change that or deny it is disrespectful to our founding fathers and the history this country built on. Like someone else said here that Christmas has become a bigger phenomenon than what it was originally intended for. Like I said, Christmas has become a universal term nowadays, could mean anything to anyone. You don't even have to be Christian to celebrate Christmas as many atheists, and non-Christians do. Christmas is also used as a marketing term. Why do you think businesses prefer Merry Christmas over Happy Holidays? Because Merry Christmas identifies more with customers, which means more $. 

Anyways, i'm really not interested in a debate over religion but Merry Christmas is the term America uses. Sorry but that's just the way it is...