To continuously and rigorously be encouraged or forced by local, state, and federal governments to remove any mention of the word God, Jesus, prayer, any Christian symbols, Christmas, even red poinsettais, etc, etc etc, from any and all facets of the community, and not just during Christmas season but year round makes many people feel threatened.

This threatening feeling is not much unlike how some lefties feel about the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act provides some necessary tools for preventing future 9/11's, but some people feel it takes us down a road which leads us to a police state. It is utterly ridiculous to say we live in a police state at this very moment, but people opposed to the Patriot Act still make that leap to demonstrate an example.

Many Christians feel that the never ending "war" on their symbols, traditions, words, and actions, are leading us down a road where Christianity is outright abolished - something that is certainly threatening given human history's proclivity to do such things and enforce them violently. What isn't helping is the fact that secularist organizations that push such fronts, such as the ACLU, tend to mostly target the traditional Christian elements of society, and seemingly would never "come after" Muslims or Jews.