I don't really go in for this "war on Christmas" topic. I mean, can't "happy holidays" refer to the whole schedule of holidays that hit the calendar between November 25 and January 1 (officially: Football Day)?

Mark Steyn doesn't really, either, but he's written a fun article about it, containing this interesting point about the effects of anti-religious litigation in the U.S.

In Britain and Europe, by contrast, the formal and informal symbols of religious faith remained in place in national life and there were no local equivalent to America's militant litigants, and the result is the total collapse of Christianity: Across the continent, the churches are empty.