text: Some myth-dispelling about the myth-dispelling.
  
  The "earliest Americans" weren't the Puritans. They were the perfectly mainstream Anglicans at Jamestown. They did not have an aversion to Christmas.
  
  Liberals do not hate Christmas crèches because they're Christian; they hate them because they're kitschy. 
  
  "Happy Holidays" did not originally mean "Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza." It meant "Christmas and New Year."  It meant, "Buy presents AND rum for egg nog."
  
  There is nothing anti-Christian about gift-giving at Christmastime. It's the time of the year that people spend thinking about other people and what they like and how to please them. What's un-Christian about that?
  
  There is no War on Advent. There are two holidays called Christmas: Christian Christmas and Secular Christmas. Christian Christmas has an Advent and Secular Christmas does not. A lot more people celebrate Secular Christmas than Christian Christmas. They're not making war on Advent; they just have no use for it.