Ho Ho--No!

I've avoided posting on this "war on Christmas" thing because, well, it's silly, but I wonder how to resolve all the brouhaha about big retailers not using the word "Christmas" in their adverts with this:

Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that Christmas festivities have been polluted by consumerism.
...
"In today's consumer society, this time (of the year) is unfortunately subjected to a sort of commercial 'pollution' that is in danger of altering its true spirit, which is characterized by meditation, sobriety and by a joy that is not exterior but intimate," the pope said in his traditional Sunday blessing.

So it seems to me that the faithful would want to divorce the religious aspect of the holiday with the secular consumerism of it.