War of the Nondenominational Worlds

- December 19, 2005 @ 2:38 pm · Filed under Legalese

I haven’t paid attention to this year’s diversionary and invented “war” against Christmas, but I found this protest
of Walmart’s use of “Home for the Holidays,” instead of “Merry
Christmas” amusing for two reasons: (1) The Christian group involved is protesting against private action, not
governmental action for once (i.e. ban of prayer in schools, removal of
creches in front of the town halls, etc., etc.); and (2) I find the
hyped-up consumerism aspect of Christmas to be the least Christlike
aspect of Christmas.  Non-Christians haven’t hollowed Christmas
out, but blatant, American-style materialism has taken away the spirit
of the holiday.  I don’t think Jesus would would approve of people
trampling each other for $29 DVD players the day after Thanksgiving.

(Link via SSRD).

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Edit: Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year: Bono?! Bill and Melinda Gates?!  Looks like the rest of U2 won’t be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize anytime soon.

2 Comments

  1. ToastyKen

    December 19, 2005 @ 5:53 pm

    1

    That’s why I prefer the East Asian version of Christmas, which is all but completely secular to begin with, so there’s nothing to hollow out! 😀

  2. ToastyKen

    December 19, 2005 @ 5:55 pm

    2

    And let’s not forget the lesson taught to us by The Spirit of Christmas<br/>:

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