That's an incredible amount of hatred you packed in there, Drake. What's the source for all your hatred?
Couple of points:
1. While the term "Christmas" literally means "Christ's Mass" i.e. the birth of Christ, it has become synonymous with the winter holiday season. I've known many Jewish people who routinely wished me a "Merry Christmas," including one of my best friends in high school, as well as a lady who attends my writer's group. The only two groups who routinely find it offensive are Islamic radicals and atheists. Given the association, this fact doesn't paint either group in a very appealing, much less rational light.
2. Jefferson's "Separation of church and state"
letter to the Danbury Baptists in no way promised or even hinted that it would keep religion out of the government. When you read his letter en toto, his "wall of separation between Church and State" clearly indicates protecting the Church from the State, and not the other way around. In fact, this sentiment was abundantly and repeatedly echoed by many of the other Founding Fathers who unmistakably considering attempting to run the U.S. Government without a firm grounding in Christian and/or Biblical principles to be an exercise of high folly. John Adams wrote, "The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God." (Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Washington D. C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XIII, p. 292-294. In a letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813.). With this in mind, Jefferson himself routinely opened up the old Treasury buildings to churchgoers during his Presidency in response to the rapid increase in the D.C. population that outpaced the building industry's ability to erect houses of Christian worship. Jefferson's letter most certainly did, however, reaffirm the First Amendment's prohibition that Congress "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Even more revealing, however, is the letter written by the Danbury Baptists to Thomas Jefferson, along with Jefferson's final word. The Danbury Baptist letter concerned itself with federal meddling in the affairs of churches. Jefferson's response (in full, below), includes the following: "Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem." In short, this means, "I agree with your position, respect it, and assure you a federal encroachment on religious belief will not happen." We must never forget the second part of our First Amendment's protection of religion: "nor prohibit the free exercise thereof." This isn't merely federal law. Amendments are part of the Constitution (Article V), "the supreme Law of the Land" (Article VI). As such, they "shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution" (Article V). Any subsequent federal law, including the directions given by Department of VA staffers, must fall in line with the mandate that "Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise (of religion)." If it does not, then the directives given by such directors and staffers directly violates the Constitutional rights of its employees.
As utbagpiper correctly noted, not only are the taxpayer dollars spent on the VA very well-earned by those who risked all for their country, but meeting the spiritual needs of patients is critical to their overall care.
To cop a quote: "Oh the travesty! Persecution! Lion's den! poor widdle you!"
Seriously, Drake, We the People do not agree with you: "A 2008 survey of 1,000 people concluded that, based on their stated beliefs rather than their religious identification, 69.5% of Americans believe in a personal God, roughly 12.3% of Americans are atheist or agnostic, and another 12.1% are deistic (believing in a higher power/non-personal God, but no personal God)." Furthermore, "Most of the 50 affiliations cited are Christian denominations, ranging from the Assembly of God to the United Church of Christ. Added up they show that 53 percent of Americans are Protestants, 22 percent Catholics and 8 percent other Christians, such as Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses. Protestant Groups."
That's 83% of Americans who are Christians.
Our country is a Republic, not a Democracy. If we attempted to appease every minority, we'd have to flip coins to chose which minority ruled, as many of them are on conflict with one another. Freedom of religion remains one of the most valuable foundations of our country.
If you don't like it, I suggest that instead of trying to shove your 1% view, "an atheist to the extremes," down everyone else's throats, you wake up, realize we were founded as a Christian nation, remain a predominantly Christian nation, and you either chose to live here peaceably or move to either the Czech Republic or Estonia:
"According to Pew Research Center survey in 2012 religiously unaffiliated (include agnostic and atheist) make up about 18.2% of Europeans population. According to the same survey religiously unaffiliated make up a majority of the population only in two European countries: Czech Republic (75%) and Estonia (60%)."
Other sources indicate China and Japan outpace the Czech Republic.
You'll be much happier there than amongst all us Christians.