In recent years the season of Christmas has become more secularized. The word Christ has been replaced with the letter X. Merry Christmas is now seen as offensive, and therefore has been replaced by Happy Holiday's. Municiple Nativity scenes have been questions and challenged. For example in many places like Ellwood the scenes have been challenged. (http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Community-Supports-Nativity-Scene-at-City-Building/xNRMmbrB8U2eYxmxEaZ_3A.cspx). From the Friday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, until the end of the Christmas season many people go carzy for shopping. They wake up early and go bargin hunting for the best deal. They focus so much on this day that they forget that the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the beggining of Advent. Many forget that the whole reason for the season is the birth of the son of God. They begin to focus on material things so much that they go to great lengths to get their desired items. For example in California a woman actually pepper sprayed a whole group of people to egt what she wanted. (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/25/ten-injured-after-woman-uses-pepper-spray-on-black-friday-crowd/) Twenty people where injured. In Long Island, NY another case of a security guard being trampled by people trying to get into a store that had just opened.(http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008448574_shop290.html). This move from a Christmas about being with family and celebrating God, to a Chritmas about getting the best gift for all has caused problems in America and is just getting worse.