2007 Christmas Stamps (Vanity)

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2007stamps/downloadcenter.htm</em: ^ | 10-25-2007 | None

[lilylangtree]

The Postal Service announced the new 2007 Christmas stamp "The Madonna of the Carnation" for Catholics. Also, the USPS came out with the Christmas stamps commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID (Sep 28). Plus, USPS will release stamps recognizing Kwanzaa and Hanukkah (Oct 26). And for those in the "none of the above" category, the Holiday Knits stamps series will be available as of today.

I commend the Postal Service for its political correctness. However, as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?

Has our country moved so far away from its Christian foundation that we must now ask "where is our representation"?

[Bluegrass Conservative]

What? Christians don’t revere the Virgin Mary?

Well, evangelicals don't much. She was the mother of our Lord . . . but that is all she is seen as. No different from other true believers in the Bible.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Do any other freepers believe that we are being slighted?

What would you want on a Christmas stamp to keep from being slighted?

[LibertarianLiz]

Aren’t Catholics considered Christian?

I was also confused the first time I heard someone separate Catholics from Christians.

I believe that Evangelicals do not consider Catholics to be Christian.

I once had an Evangelical tell me that Mother Teresa was not going to heaven because she hadn't been "born again". I responded that if Mother Teresa wasn't getting in, the rest of us have no chance at all.

[gridlock]

Well, evangelicals don't much. She was the mother of our Lord . . . but that is all she is seen as.

OK. That's fine. So what is the problem here.

My wife is in a lot of my daughter's baby pictures, too.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

So I guess we’ve got 2 more months of some Freepers finding silly things to feel slighted about concerning Christmas.

*sigh* Unfortunately so. And let's not forget O'Reilly pandering to them.

[Alberta's Child]

I believe the stamp designers are of the opinion that the mortal mother of Jesus, having been arbitrarily elevated to the rank of co-redemptrix, is a wholly adequate and appropriate symbol of Christmas.

What in Hades are you talking about? That infant Jesus would look kinda funny sitting up on His own, wouldn't He?

[gracesdad]

“The country has not, meaning we the people, but those in charge of putting things out in public (the media, marketing guys, government) are so afraid to offend someone that they stay away from anything considered Christian.”

Baby Jesus and Mary on a stanmp is staying away from everything Christian? I had no idea that imagery had become secular. When did that happen?

[Renegade]

How come the stamp shows $.39 when it should be $ .41 ?

[Bluegrass Conservative]

OK. That's fine. So what is the problem here. My wife is in a lot of my daughter's baby pictures, too.

Oh, I agree! Speaking as a Southern Baptist, I have NO problems with this picture. I mean, after all, I'm pretty sure that Mary was there for the original Christmas Day! haha!

[ladtx]

See post #40.

[gate2wire]

“My wife is in a lot of my daughter’s baby pictures, too.”

LOL. Good perspective.

[napscoordinator]

Why don’t they have Christmas stamps with candy canes on them????

[muawiyah]

There are folks who don't know that's Baby Jesus.

I'd apologize for them, but I've met their kind before ~ and in their view Baby Jesus better be laying down in a strawfilled manger ~

Several years back I found it necessary to dispute the legitimacy of one of the secular stamps. Although Santa Claus is a favorite figure, this time the stamps had Little Red Man's colors and decor (white dots on a red background) and Reindeer man (as a shamen) blowing a shamen's trumpet and/or beating a shamen's drum.

Technically no one believes in the Old Religion these days, so that wasn't a problem, but Little Red Man is the amanita muscaria mushroom which is halucinogenic. Reindeer love 'em. They'll snarf one up and run around with it on their nose, their eyes rolling in their heads as they imagine they are flying (SEE: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer).

I thought it a tad inappropriate for the Postal Service to be issuing stamps celebrating dopers.

Some of my posts in FR regarding those stamps are among the highest volume cites found in Google.com 4 years later! Guess everybody wonders what Santa Claus did for kicks eh?! And why's he wandering about with all those flying reindeer.

[KarlInOhio]

How come the stamp shows $.39 when it should be $ .41 ?

Look at the little tiny words in the lower right: "Preliminary Design". See post 40 for the final design.

[napscoordinator]

Come on now. Not everything has to be religious. I am Catholic and think that a nice variety of stamps would be nice. FREEPERS complain too much. Do we all have inferiority complexes??? Sometimes I think we do.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

Interesting. I’m a big fan of the Jesus stamps, but only the baby Jesus ones. You can have the hippy Jesus stamps all to yourself, FRiend.

[SouthTexas]

USPS came out with the Christmas stamps commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID IED.

Fixed.

[verity]

"...commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID IED..."

[muawiyah]

The USPS is not validating anything. It's publishing stamps the public will buy and use happily. If you don't want a Madonna and Child stamp buy a different one.

We had that problem with the Roosevelt stamps. Post offices all over the country would be down to their last stock on hand and it'd be Roosevelt stamps the locals wouldn't touch because, as they said "They'd not kiss Roosevelt's a**". That's about the time I went to work for 'em.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Not everything has to be religious. I am Catholic and think that a nice variety of stamps would be nice.

I agree. I'm still waiting for one to honor one of my favorite Christmas traditions!!