Posted on 11/18/2006 5:53:56 AM PST by Wil H
The Christmas shopping season is upon us and it seems that we have won the opening skirmish it the war with secularism to stamp out Christmas. Walmart have agreed to let Christmas back into their stores this year. That is great news but I am sure it is the power of the almighty dollar rather than the Almighty himself that drove them to that decision, but then, God does move in mysterious ways.
This year I am going shopping prepared and I invite you to join me in the campaign.
I am going to carry a number of letters, sealed in envelopes and addressed to the Store Manager. Any time I don't find any evidence of Christmas celebration in a store I will give the manager a letter and leave.
Here is what the letter says:
Dear Sir or Madam,
I came to your store today with the express purpose of spending a significant percentage of my $XXXX (put what you like in here) Christmas shopping budget.
However I note that your store chooses to no longer participate in the celebration of Christmas and therefore you don’t qualify to receive my Christmas dollars.
A quintessential part of Christmas is the sharing of the joy of giving and doing so in festive Christmas environment, it is estimated 95% of Americans celebrate the holiday and fortunately for them, and I, there are many other stores that embrace the Christmas spirit.
My Christmas spending, as I am certain many other’s, will be done with those that wish to share the spirit of holiday. Should you ever decide to participate again I will consider returning as a customer, until that time, ALL my business goes elsewhere.
Sincerely,
XXXXXXXX
Merry Christmas
If a substantial number of people did this, maybe the message that Walmart got would reach the other retail outlets and perhaps we could get our Christmas back into the public square. If the stores all start decorating for Christmas again do you not think think they will pressure the municipality to decorate the streets appropriately?
This year, Prescott AZ has street banners on downtown lamp posts declaring "Prescott, Your Christmas City" I might just take a trip there to do my Christmas shopping.
I really like that, almost has a little jingle to it.
The "Christmas War" seems to start earlier and earlier each year...
Okay, okay. But my remarks still are my opinion. Why should the store be obliged to acknowledge Christmas when other religious observations are at the same time.
Seems there are two veins of religious thought here. Some insist on a public advertisement, others eschew consumerism.
But a store owner should be bullied by CHristians to adverise Merry Christmas?
"can Christians just please drop the subject this year?"
No, we cannot just drop it this year, or any year for that matter. I'm not gonna let the secularists, the leftists and the communists, continue to rob Christians of what rightfully belongs to them. This "holiday" is a Christian observance and if the stores want to profit from it then they darn well better not call it something other than what it is. If a store has a specific policy to NOT allow people to say Merry Christmas or advertise with the word Christmas in it, then they do NOT get my money.
I wonder just who it was who claimed this country is still a "Christian" nation.
Your right!
I was thinking about buying the wife a $55,000,000 Gulfstream business jet for Christmas but I like your idea and have settled on a hang glider instead. ; )
I just can't go with that, any way you cut it, it is stifling and repressive to way too many people. I understand a person of another faith, or no faith, may not enjoy it, but to request the silence of everyone else(which is what you are asking)is simply repression and tyranny. I would certainly agree that if one wants to boycott over the uttered word Christmas, being tossed in their direction, that is their right. But for that tiny sliver of people to expect everyone else to just shut up, as they celebrate, a holiday they apparently like, is just too much. Their must be a way to approach it from the other direction. No employee, for example should be made to say anything. They should not however be punished if they choose to do so, or, conversely if they prefer to say nothing at all.
Good for you. I will pay attention to political correctness problems when I chose where to shop and celebrate this Christmas season. "Holiday shopers" on this thread can do their thing...while Christians can do their thing.
How do you find the time?
I'm so busy working OT to afford all the Christmas presents that I just don't have the time to make presents!
Oh, wait a minute..../snicker
No, they should not be bullied into it. They have a right to do what they want. But, if their policy is to prohibit their employees from uttering the words "Merry Christmas", and if their policy is to not use the words "Merry Christmas" in their advertising, then I am not going to give them my business. This so called "holiday" IS Christmas, and if these stores chose to profit from the Christmas "holiday", then they ought to respect the 85+% of the nation who celebrates Christmas, and who spends the bulk of their money in their store. The stores can have whatever policy they chose to have, and I can chose to not do business with them--simple as that.
It is to me!! : - )
I don't recognize "Christmas shopping season" as a sacred event, sorry.
Happy Thanksgiving, though.
LOL!!!!!
It is perfectly legit, for a person to boycott a store. It is not bullying, in a free society. Those are the tools we have. Boycotts have been used throughout history, as legitimate tools for social progress. It wasn't bullying when blacks boycotted the Montgomery Bus System, because they were forced to sit on the back of the bus. It isn't bullying whn Gays boycott corporations for not providing partner benefits. Boycotts are legit and available to all who have a grievance. In every case of boycott there are those not sympathetic with the cause. But you should refer to people, that peacefully excercize a right as bullies.
Oh, and I'm not crazy....
Raucous round of applause! I plan to have all my catalog orders in by the end of November, and then that will be it for my purchases. (I can't stop my husband from shopping, but at least I won't be out there :-).
Well you finally woke up did ya?????
Thats right, your opinion and then there is MY OPINION....
so what's the problem?????
Here, have another cup of java (_)> It will help ya.....
Ahhh, a breath of fresh "individual thought"!
I like it!
Your point is absolutely correct. When a store prohibits its employees from saying Merry Christmas. They have crossed a line. It would be equally wrong for them to require it, in my view. They should step aside and let it happen. Christmas celebration is not a forced or phony holiday. It is the holiday of my people. I will celebrate it.
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