Is Santa Racist ?

" War on Christmas" redirects here. For the brief cessation of hostilities during World War I, see #Christmas truce

Christmas is the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, which, in western churches, is held annually on 25 December. Through its multi-century history, it has been the subject of several reformations, both #religious and #secular.

In the 17th century, the Puritans had laws forbidding the celebration of Christmas, unlike the Catholic Church or the Anglican Church, the latter from which they separated.[2] With the atheistic Cult of Reason in power during the era of Revolutionary France, Christian Christmas religious services were banned and the three kings cake was forcibly renamed the "equality cake" under anticlerical government policies.[3][4] Later, in the 20th century, Christmas celebrations were prohibited under the doctrine of state atheism in the Soviet Union.[5][6] In Nazi Germany, organized religion as a whole was attacked as an enemy of the state and Christmas celebrations corrupted so as to serve the Party's racist ideology.[7]

Modern-day controversy, often associated with use of the term "war on Christmas", occurs mainly in the United States[8][9] and Canada,[10][11] and to a much lesser extent the United Kingdom.[12] Some opponents have denounced the generic term "holidays" and avoidance of using the term "Christmas" as being politically correct.[12][13][14] This often involves objections to government or corporate efforts to acknowledge Christmas in a way that is multiculturally sensitive.[15]