Bill O'Reilly won the epic "war on Christmas," and he just can't stop bragging about it. And if you suggest that this war is a triviality or a distraction from a much greater threat to Christmas, then you just don't get it. C'mon.

That's the gist of what he told Rev. Derrick Harkins on the Radio Factor today. Rev. Harkins, senior pastor of 19th St. Baptist Church in Washington, shared a perspective shaped by his pastoral leadership (as opposed to, say, ginning up outrage for sake of ratings and bucks).

Since Bill has won the war on Christmas, perhaps he shouldn't take Harkins' wisdom as a threat. But since Harkins and other religious leaders signed an Open Letter to Christmas Culture Warriors as part of Catholics In Alliance and FPL's Christmas Campaign, O'Reilly has taken exception to it on TV and now the radio.

Now that the dreaded secularists have been defeated, maybe Bill could acknowledge that concerns about runaway commercialization and greed are not socialist nonsense. Check out the audio of Rev. Harkins suggesting that the Christmas warriors put their guns away or aim them at the culture of materialism that has so diluted the meaning of the holiday. As Harkins says, "the essence of Christmas is far weightier than whether a 19-year-old clerk at Wal-Mart says merry Christmas or happy holidays."