Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post

A quick scan of Wikipedia seems to indicate that the lion's share of this tax actually goes to pay for the churches' expenses!
Who else shall pay for it? You yourself wrote earlier: "Atheists don't object to Christmas, per se, but to government officials promoting Christmas at the expense of other religious groups, while using public funds."
And we have to remember: a considerable part of that tax money (not all of it, alas) goes back to society in form of social work like hospitals, kindergartens, women's refuges etc, and not only within those countries, but also in regions of the Third World.