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Excellent point Morgan
Santa isn't a religious symbol any more than Christ was actually born on Christmas.

They celebrate his birthday on a day that was traditionally a pagan holiday so that it would be easier to convert pagans to the christian religion. the thinking that .... well if they're already celebrating something on that day we'll make it easy for them and just ask them to celebrate something else instead. Other examples of this in christian religion... adding things to the religion so that it would be easier to convert the heathens. The halo around angels head. A pagan symbol for the sun god. there are many many more but i'm still pissed about the piggy bank thing so i can't think of anything.

what was the pagan holiday you ask? the winter solstice. Christ was actually born sometime in late january.

And whoever said it would offend 5% of the customer base is full of shit. It will offend some tiny percentage of the muslim population. As mentioned, it will only offend religious zealots that demand everyone else respect their religion and culture but make no effort to respect others.

My biggest problem with the PC movement isn't the ideas behind it, because i happen to respect a lot of things I don't necessarily understand. The problem with it is that we seem to be catering to a miniscule percentage of the population that demands respect for themselves and their culture but refuse to return the favour.