Does anyone else see the bizzarre irony (War on Christmas)

[rpannier]

I was looking at one of the AP Stories about a group in Sacramento picketing outside Wal-Mart over the Happy Holidays slogan. They are upset that Wal-Mart is ignoring the "Real Meaning of Christmas."
I posted the link below. Does anyone else find it odd that the Christian group protesting, has one of it's members dressed up as "Santa Claus?"
I didn't realize that Christmas was celebrating the birth of Santa Claus (although Bart Simpson did tell us that in 1989).

The link for the story:
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WAL_MART_HOLIDAYS?SITE=ILMOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-12-18-04-32-00

[mrcheerful]

1. Thats the real problem fundies seem to have

they confuse religious myths with other myths and lose touch with reality. They seem to worry about words instead of looking at the behaviors of the greedy. Since when has shopping been a christen tradition as well as the belief in santa? The real issue here is when fundies started believing that the way to heaven was through earthly riches.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Intellectual honesty is never the strong point of these ninnies...

Irony is lost on them...

[tecelote]

3. I think it might be good.

Let the idiots protest such nonesense.

It leaves the real issues to intellectuals.

These protests have the very people they are trying to reach scratching their heads and commenting about how true Christians care about much more important matters.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

4. I see it

just how are we supposed to remember the "real meaning" of Christmas in a greeting?

Happy Jesus's Birthday? Well, it really isn't...

I mean we're out shopping, for God's sake (pun intended) and I don't think we need to be flinging sacred words around at each other. Like, "Thank you very much for taking out my groceries: Hail Mary Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee!"

Is that what they want? Because personally, I don't like to get real sacred in the parking lot.