The so-called "War on Christmas" (or less sensationally, the #Christmas controversy) is a right-wing demagogic neologism referring to real or imagined secularist attempts to keep the annual December solstice holiday shopping season culturally inclusive. Setting the standard by which all other manufactroversies may be judged, it is most famously hawked each and every year by none other than former Fox News Channel contributor Bill O'Reilly.
Few people, even among those who promote this idea, know that its modern-day form started out as a conspiracy theory promulgated by groups affiliated with the John Birch Society, which termed it the "Assault on Christmas". In 1959, they released a pamphlet called "There Goes Christmas", in which they claimed that there was a new communist plot to "take the Christ out of Christmas" by replacing Christmas decorations with jewish United Nations iconography.
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