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"?

[Larry Lucido]

It also looks like a thirty-nine cent stamp. When are we supposed to use this?

When you don't care if and when your mail arrives. :-)

[SouthTexas]

;)

[A.A. Cunningham]

Do you know what the English translation is for the Latin word coredemptrix?

[muawiyah]

I happily use Madonna and Child stamps because they're pretty. Also, Mary is one of the people prophesied in the Bible ~ and if the Catholics think she's a Co-redemptrix, that's between them and their crowd.

I'd go for a John the Baptist stamp for that matter. He's also prophesied.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I won’t use a stamp with Jesus on it unless he looks like a hippie.

Don't forget the "Buddy Christ"!

[It's me]

Correction...the Madonna stamp is “Madonna and child” - this seems to reflect a bit of a Catholic perspective,

How is that a "Catholic perspective" as opposed to a Christian perspective? What would be a Christian perspective? Santa Claus?

[jackibutterfly]

"Aren’t Catholics considered Christian?"

We'd better be - WE started Christianity!

[KarlInOhio]

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**".

I think I would be that way with a XXX-42 stamp (or even worse a PIAPS-44 stamp).

On the other hand I still have a few Reagan stamps that I can't bear to use because then I wouldn't have them anymore.

[pgyanke]

He was a convicted criminal sentenced to the death penalty. Whether he was fairly convicted or not is a different matter.

No, it's the heart of the matter. If He earned death, then He wasn't the unblemished, sacrificial Lamb of God. Jesus was not a criminal... not even by the standards of the day... and your point, albeit a humorous take, is nonsense.

[Frank Sheed]

Why would the USPS put out a stamp with the Madonna and a flower—a carnation yet?

I could see the Madonna of the INCARNATION. That makes plenty of sense. But then I’m just a Papist.

“And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us....”
ET VERBUM CARO FACTUM EST, et habitavit in nobis...

Frank

[highball]

While I do disagree with them, many evangelicals do not consider Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, etc. to be Christians.

That's their problem.

Do they consider Jesus to be Mary's mother? Because a picture of the two seems rather appropriate for Christmas.

[muawiyah]

All REAL EVANGELICALS consider Catholics to be Christian.

Like that correction?

[Obadiah]

Whether he was fairly convicted or not is a different matter.

With all deference to you, that is a huge, huge point. In fact, the whole of Christianity pivots on this point, for if He was rightly convicted He was guilty of a crime and thus could not be the Christ.

[Tanniker Smith]

"The Madonna of the Carnation" for Catholics.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the Madonna the Virgin Mother and Child. So what's the problem?

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Jesus was not a criminal... not even by the standards of the day... and your point, albeit a humorous take, is nonsense.

I'm not really trying to be humorous. I'm sure if you could find the records of the day, Jesus would be listed as a convicted and executed criminal.

Do I think he had sinned? No. Do I think he deserved to be executed? No. But that doesn't take away from the fact that he was a convicted criminal.

I'm sure he was not the first nor the last innocent person to be convicted and executed.

[lilylangtree]

ROTFL! :)

[Larry Lucido]

Hey, 3 seconds apart. Texas puts out some great minds!

[Larry Lucido]

Hey, 3 seconds apart. Texas puts out some great minds!

[Frank Sheed]

I guess you’re saved then...

[napscoordinator]

lol.