It's a nice picture.  I didn't get it from a web site; this is the Christmas tree in the lobby of my work building.

 

But here's the funny thing:  The majority of the folks in my building are Indian and Hindu (or at least a plurality).  Of the rest, the next largest group is non-Christian Chinese.  A few Indians who are Muslim, and at least one Sikh.  The usual sprinkling of Jews (including myself).  I think it's safe to say that Christians in my building are a minority.  A small minority. 

 

And there was a Christmas tree in the lobby on December 1^st. 

 

Not a Channukiah (Menorah), even though the first night of Channukah was the next night.  Nothing for Kwaanza.   No nods to plurality.  A Christmas tree.

 

Nor was there any kind of acknowledgement for Rosh Hoshannah or Yom Kippur--and we sure didn't get the High Holy Days off as paid holidays.  The Muslims didn't get off Ramadam, nor were there any fast-breaking meals in the company cafeteria.  Etc.

 

But a Christmas tree appeared in the lobby on December 1^st. 

 

But this isn't a crabby-Jew post about Christmas dominating the culture for an entire month, or complaints about Christmas decorations everywhere.  Nosir.  You folks go right ahead and have fine; it's all good.  The only thing I want to say is directed at the right-wing folks who insist that there's a "war on Christmas":

 

Manure.

 

If there were any kind of "war on Christmas", the lobby of a building where Christians are a small minority would be an excellent place to show that.  And yet, there it is, that pretty tree.  Heck, it was probably a Hindu who asked to have it put there--most of the top management of my division is Indian.

 

I know what you right-wing loons really want:  December to be officially Christian, with creches in every school and the Ten Commandments prominently displayed in all public buildings.  And it honks you off that, gee, the Constitution kinda forbids that.  So you make up ridiculous stories about a "war on Christmas", and complain about people saying "Happy Holidays" and schools giving kids a "winter break" instead of a "Christmas break."  Because that is the only thing you can complain about, because everyone knows you can't hang the Ten Commandments in all public buildings, and put creches in every school.

 

So rest easy, right-wing loons:  if the lobby of my building is any indication, it's not a war on Christmas so much as a war for Christmas, and in that war, you folks are winning.  By a mile.