Re: "anti-Xmas" thread followup


jmorngstar@xxxxxxx wrote:
> What I don't get - people putting their money where their mouth is. It
> has been all over the news about Wal-Mart's decision to say Happy
> Holidays. They interviewed people left and right in the parking lot,
> who said that they were really upset about this and they think that it
> is horrible. Of course, this was on their way into or out of Wal-Mart,
> where they had spent money.
>
> That makes me sick. I am anti-Wal-Mart and have been since I first
> heard of them. How can people be so hypocritical as to spend their
> money in Wal-Mart when they disagree so strongly with the principles
> being exhibited. Are the churches preaching picket from the pulpet.
> Where is Jerry Falwell and President Bush on this issue? Could it be
> that too many people have Wal-Mart stock and so money speaks louder
> than principle.
>
So, you're so upset and unhappy that some of the folks at WalMart don't
say Merry Xmas that you want to organize a boycott, put them out of
business and leave hundreds of people in your community unemployed?
Did Jesus really command his followers to celebrate his birthday by
supporting economic sanctions against companies that don't follow the
"correct" religious doctrine for two months preceding the date
(December 25) on which his wasn't born? For that matter, where is the
commandment for Christians to celebrate Xmas at all? (Book, chapter and
verse, please.)

Heck, none of the store employees anywhere here wish me a Happy
Hanukkah or put up decorations for the holiday, and I'm not getting in
a lather about it. Come to think of it, they didn't do anything at the
stores for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Purim, Pesach, Shavuot, or any of
the other Jewish holidays, either. Of course some of this may be just
because we haven't commercialized them and turned them into
celebrations of conspicuous consumption... In any case, relax. It's
really a tempest in a teapot, being sustained mostly by the very people
you'd expect to oppose commercialization of their religion and
religious holidays.

Eliyahu

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