This has got to be one of the stupidest things that Christians do. I don't understand why some Christians want the secular world to celebrate Christmas. All that does is commercialize it. Do you want Walmart to share the gospel for you? They will get it wrong and turn it into commercial religion. Why don't Christians take responsibility for sharing the gospel themselves.

All this is not to mention the fact that those that complain about X-mas don't understand the root of why we use X to signify Christ. Just plain ignorance.

I can kind of see where they're coming from, in that Christmas really is the only major holiday during the "holiday season" (other religions now over-celebrate minor holidays that happen to fall around the same time as Christmas in reaction to the Christian nature of Christmas).
The frustrating thing about this is that businesses are profiting from the gift-giving tradition of Christmas by making catalogs of toys, jewelry, decorations, and plastic trees, all without wanting to admit any relationship to a Christian holiday.
Still, I don't want to patronize a "nice" store that uses "Christmas" in its advertising to get the money of the conservative religious any more than I want to buy from a store that uses "holiday" or "season" to avoid losing business from the less-religious and liberal.
My solution? We hand-make our Christmas presents (Thankfully, my family is creative enough to come up with some beautiful, useful gifts.) and donate the money we would have spent to a charity of our choice (We have given to World Vision, Voice of the Martyrs, and American Cancer Society in the past.). Then, we go have a fun day out, usually hiking in a local state park. Since we started doing this, our Christmases have been more fun and memorable that ever.

I don't think it's a matter of expecting the "world" to join in on our celebration, but more of a matter of allowing Chritians to celebrate the birth of their Savior. You have to understand it's. You can justify it by saying Christmas isn't a Christian holiday, but when can we come together as a body and remember His birth? And why should we allow the world to tell us we cannot?

Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus and there is a Christ who gave his all so that all could have life eternal. It doesn't matter how you celebrate Christmas or Xmas, but that as a Christian you celebrate him, the one who came to be the least. Give what you can and it doesn't have to be gifts to one another. Our children are grown and moved away, so when we come together no matter what day it's a celebration. When we come together as Christians, to celebrate what Christ Jesus has done for us all; that too is a celebration. Celebrate Christs' love for us everyday and then pass it on to another and another and another. Merry Christmas to all, in God's Grace John

Conservative or traditionalist citizens who want to persuade, encourage, cajole, coerce, boycott or do whatever they think will help influence the culture to do what they want have both the legal right and freedom to do so. But please, don’t use the word “Christian” as the basis for the movement. Jesus taught much more significant things to concern ourselves with than whether a department store says "Merry Christmas" or "Season’s Greetings."

How about boycotting all stores which exploit the poor? OK, that excludes nearly all of them but we should start thinking: when something is cheap, someone is paying for it.

We can't trace all goods back to the farmer but we can start paying a fair price because we really don't need as much quantity as we buy. Instead, if we purchase quality, correctly-priced goods it is, in general, better for all concerned, ourselves included.