New York — The annual installment of the War on Christmas heated up last night as a group of militant atheists set fire to New York City’s iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

Onlookers were stunned as the Atheistic Society for Sexual Hedonism and Terror (ASSHAT) stormed Times Square and set the tree ablaze.

ASSHAT also had with them five abducted mall Santas which they lined up and executed gangland style before dumping their bodies into the quickly charring conifer.