Christmas just got among the majority of Protestant Christians when it gained wide acceptance by the American public in General. And that can be attributed to the rising pantheon secular Santa Claus. Old Saint Nick becomes a giant marketing for retailers, who in the 1920s had embraced as the primary season for Christmas shopping. Church leaders don’t mind Christmas on the grounds that it was a pagan holiday. On the other hand their concerns shifted to the ungodly materialism and indulgence of their desire to see promoted in the name of Christ.
New York Times conducted a survey of Christmas sermons in 1931 and reported on the general theme: “the suggestion that Christmas could not survive if Christ is put into the background by materialism.” Other popular preaching the advent period Muslims have become more than “a profiteers.”