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Boycott the Christmas Boycotters

The following images aren't totally on-topic for this post, but I found them on an athiest's anti-Christian and anti-Christmas website, and wanted to share.


Happy Holidays, not Christmas


Happy Holidays, not Christmas


Happy Holidays, not Christmas


Happy Holidays, not Christmas




I get e-mails from the American Family Association. They exist to get people upset and active about what's wrong morally in the United States. E-mail topics I remember from them are:

  • Boycott & Write WalMart about a donation to a pro-homosexual group
  • Boycott Target for banning the Salvation Army
  • Write your senators about preserving the legality of historical/traditional Marriage (will blog on this topic sometime)
  • Writing the President because rumor had it that Kid Rock would be at his inaugeration
And most recently:
  • Boycott all stores that don't require employees and posters to say "Merry Christmas."
When did Jesus get upset about not receiving corporate recognition and endorsement?

Where in the Bible does it say we should even have a holiday on a Catholic celebration which was originally a Pagan holiday that early Christians used to celebrate Jesus' birth so they wouldn't get killed for making a new holiday to what would have been to the pagans a "new deity."

Now... the logic that calling something a "holiday" - from the root of "Holy Day" as being non-religious is just poor logic. Yes, people outlawing "Christmas" are doing so out of personal repulsion for the "Christ" part. Halloween (Catholic - All Hallow's Eve), Easter (Persian to goddess Ishtar?), Valentine's Day (Catholic - St. Valentine) and all kinds of other "holidays" are clearly religious in origin.

So I understand the frustration at the corporate and state sponsored denial of Jesus. I'm more than frustrated about the monotheism of commercialism as capitalized shortly after the winter solstice. But we're not responding how Jesus did. Or am I forgetting the passage:

"Truly I say to you, do not purchase from this man, for he has not publicly displayed on his 'Buy1 sandal 2nd for half price' sign my divinity - truly he will be cursed and worse than Sodom and Gomorrah in the days of their destruction. For with each sale of cheap goods my divinity is to be acknowledged, and my name should always be associated with shoddy workmanship and the idolatry of mammon."


(From the gospel of Walton)
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  1. Jen on 12/20/06, 11:02 AM

    Nice, Juan. I particularly liked the "shoddy workmanship" bit.

     


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