Why are Retailers Embarrassed About Christmas?

11.20.02 | mlmr

[VermiciousKnid]

I have not had the same experience as you...or at least not entirely. While I have noticed that almost no stores use "Christmas" in their advertising, they DO in fact carry a large variety of both secular and religious goods. Still, it does bother me that they seem almost afraid to use the word "Christmas," and opt for the allegedly less-offensive "Holidays."

If it makes you feel any better, my 6-year-old first grader (who attends Catholic school) was given an assignment to write down what he thought of Christmas. This is what he wrote:

I think Christmas is a day of love. It makes us happy to get presents, but the best present of all was the one God gave us: Jesus. And Mary helped, too.

(I helped with the punctuation, but the words are his alone -- and now he knows what a colon [:] is!)

Regards,

[Skooz]

Very nice. I hope I don't sound presumptuous when I say that you will never regret one dime you will spend on your son's education. He seems to be getting a good one.

[ApesForEvolution]

Amen. Praise God for His grace, mercy, love, wisdom and peace, among much more!

[VermiciousKnid]

Thank you very much for your kind words. Billy will be happy to hear that you enjoyed it. He is a good boy who takes pride in his work and who tries very hard to do "what Jesus would do."

My husband and I have not regretted the expense of his tuition, though I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a bit of a hardship, as property taxes on Long Island are sky-high (we pay close to $10K/year for a 4 bedroom Cape Cod on 1/3 acre).

When our youngest son is in school all day next year, I hope to get a part-time job there. All I'm asking for is tuition remission -- I don't really need a salary or medical benefits because I'm already covered under my husband's plan. Free tuition would be a blessing.

Regards,

[Skooz]

Free tuition would be a blessing.

It is. My daughter has attended a great private Christian school since Kindergarten. My wife taught there for 7 years and we received free tuition. My wife changed jobs this year and now we are paying the full amount. Quite a change! I had taken that free tution for granted.

[shhrubbery!]

A few years ago I suggested to my son's eighth grade English teacher that she have the class read A Christmas Carol. She was looking for short texts that junior high school kids could understand and enjoy. I thought this would be a great introduction to Dickens -- and I'd been assigned it in seventh grade. All the students loved it.

"Oh, I don't know about that," she said. "Since Christmas is a religious theme and I think that's not permitted."

[mlmr]

Christmas is a scary place for some public school teachers!!

[mlmr]

Even if your not Christian but you celebrate Christmas why would the religious part of it be offensive?????

I don't know when Christianity became offensive, but in some sectors, it is...

[mlmr]

I think Christmas is a day of love. It makes us happy to get presents, but the best present of all was the one God gave us: Jesus. And Mary helped, too.

How delightful... and true too!

[dr_lew]

I remember seeing a news story on one of the networks about 10-14 years ago about how the Japanese were trying to embrace Christmas, but had no idea what is was about.

10-14 years? HA! I remember a segment by David Brinkley on the Huntley-Brinkley report back in the early sixties about Christmas in Japan. I particularly remember his wrap-up. "People complain ... about Christmas losing its religious meaning ... but here ... it never had any ... Over to you, Chet."

[JavaTheHutt]

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Ooops, got distracted, didn't do my pruf-reeding on that post. Should be 5900. Sorry, I got distracted while typing.

[2sheep]

>I prefer to do my research in the oldest library in the world, specifically in the book of St. Matthew (another saint, you wanna go ahead and call him a pagan like you did St. Nicholas?

Satan has a twist for everything in the Bible and I suspect you haven't even read yours.  There is no St. Nicholas in my Bible.  Seriously, seek deliverance!

[Zack Attack]

If the secularists want Christmas all to themselves, why don't the churches get together and redefine the date that Christ was born. With today's scholarship, you'd think they could pin that down retty close.

Many already have. I'll give a link. Messiah Yeshua(Jesus) was born 6 months following John, probably on Tishri 15(early Fall), the first day of the Feast of Sukkot and was circumcized on Simchah Torah(Rejoicing in Torah), the 8th and final day of the Feast. The same Feast will be commemorated annually in the Messianic Kingdom to come as the anniversary of the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. All of the Fall Feasts of the Lord will be fulfilled at His second coming, as the Spring Feasts were fulfilled during His first coming.

Messiah's Birth at Sukkot

[JavaTheHutt]

Satan has a twist for everything in the Bible and I suspect you haven't even read yours. There is no St. Nicholas in my Bible. Seriously, seek deliverance!

Duh, of course St. Nicholas isn't in the bible. Every time you attempt to prove your intellectual superiority, you end up doing the exact opposite.

I would seriously like to hear your explanation for the satanic twist that you allege for Matthew chapter 2.

[mlmr]

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