Posted on 11/19/2012 11:08:47 AM PST by Gopher Broke
Dear Friend,
As the Christmas shopping season begins full swing, AFA has prepared its annual "Naughty or Nice" retailer list.
We have taken the top 100 national retailers and reviewed their websites, media advertising and in-store signage in an effort to help you know which companies are Christmas-friendly.
Over the past seven years, your AFA has stood firm in the "War on Christmas." Companies who used to refuse to acknowledge Christmas now have Christmas "shops" inside their stores. Many of them now liberally use "Christmas" in their advertising and in-store signage. Sadly, there are still some companies which refuse to use "Christmas." They continue to insult and offend Christian shoppers by sticking with their politically correct "holiday" term.
you just joined today and you post this?
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well yes there are may stores which are anti God and yes some anti American, you say you have never seen them , what have you been walking around with your eyes closed or watching MSNBC and reading the huff post?
If you have no problem with those who refuse to say Christmas then you are in the limp-wristed minority on that one - at least on FR. We could all do without your preaching about it as well.
youjust joined and you post two utter crap posts , do one troll
not on about how one celebrates Christmas, you are.
Read posts again.
Nobody is actually saying anybody should stop saying Christmas. That’s one of the great lies the “persecuted” Christian insist on. Out here in reality some people just don’t say it for whatever reason. I only ever say “merry Christmas” on Christmas day because it’s 80 where I live and I forget we’re in winter holiday season.
There is a bigger picture, the fact is there’s a dozen holidays in this season and subsequently it’s perfectly reasonable to say things other than Christmas.
Oh and it’s ‘ not ;. Really you gotta work on your whole prose, you’re borderline unreadable, bad punctuation, bad spelling, words just plain out of order.
have you spent time in other countries at Christmas, I have Napoli, Bergan, Oslo, Copenhagen, all around Europe nearly to cut it short.
All places say Christmas, only here with the utter hatred of Christmas and Christians does it happen with all this crap.
It’s Christmas, just as stores now say Thanksgiving or 4th July
I would read your posts again, but your Yoda language is getting more incomprehensible with every attempt. I don’t even know what your first sentence here is trying to say.
I was interested to hear what kids were (are?) being taught about Thanksgiving about five years ago. A kid in our church was taught that it was the Pilgrims thanking the Indians. Nothing about thanking God.
Christians in America have no idea what it means to be truly persecuted for one's faith. To them, a friendly, "Season's Greetings!" = hate for Christianity & all it stands for.
again I have not said you can;t say Christmas.
You keep getting of track.
The holiday is Christmas as is Thanksgiving, some celebrate it others do not.
But they do say Thaksgiving, have a good 4th July so if stores want to say Christmas ten good they get my Christmas money, if they do not because some are PC or bigots to Christians and Christmas then they don;t get any of my money.
Simple
I know my typo’s are bad so I hope you can make sense of what I just posted.
I still say no to JC Penney.
the country has become PC or bigoted toards the majority and sadly many jump on that wagon.
Maybe we should stop saying Thanksgiving and 4th July too.
ARF
But there is no “all this crap”. That’s what I’m pointing out to you. The vast majority of people and companies will be saying Christmas all the time starting Friday. There’s no record of ANYBODY being banned from saying Christmas EVER, there is NO war on Christmas. All the companies in AFA’s list will have Christmas displays, even the office supply stores.
And yet, there’s a crowd of dingbats that desperately want to be persecuted that come out every year and whine about companies not saying it enough. I mean look at this thread, we’ve got one guy that complained because there’s a rainbow near the Christmas sign. Really in what world is that a valid complaint? Some people just spend too much time wanting to be offended. Meanwhile in the rest of America Christmas gets used freely without fear or complaint.
“This season of Christmas has been celebrated as such since this nation was founded.”
IIRC, the Pilgrims were very anti-Christmas. They were anti-Catholic, objected to the “...mas” (mass), and looked on the holiday as pagan. They “loosened up” after a few decades.
It’s crazy. But think the real problem is that they really WANT to be persecuted. Which is why they take every possible slight and blow it up. I’ve got a co-worker with the same problem though not relating to religion, everything bad that happens in her life is a personal affront. Slow traffic exists just to be in her way, bad waiters singled her out for bad service, she even complains about the ringer on her cellphone. Some people just really want the world to be lined up against them.
I think that was the show where Fonzie jumped the shark and the gefilte fish, while singing Silent Night. ;)
They "compromised their principles" after a few decades...the way we are doing with gay marriage, abortion, and so on...
I’m 67. I grew up thinking “Happy Holidays” meant Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. I think for many it still does.
I didn’t know the first thing about Hannukah until the Jewish girls in the dorm taught us about it our freshman year in college!
Yes, some folks are out to silence Christians about Christmas, but I don’t see them everywhere and I think the AFA is creating unnecessary rancor with it’s insistence on “Christmas” only.
Any “holiday” occuring between Thanksgiving and New Years that involves gift-giving should be included.
I’m completely on track. The holiday for SOME is Christmas, for others it’s Hanukah, some celebrate solstice, I just like buying presents for friends and family.
Meanwhile you’re perpetuating a lie. For the 5th time. PEOPLE SAY CHRISTMAS FREELY IN THIS COUNTRY.
How do you know a company isn’t saying Christmas for PC reasons. Maybe they aren’t saying Christmas because it’s 80 outside and people forget it’s Christmas time. The vast majority of stuff that happens in this world isn’t about you or your religion.
If you know your typos are bad you just proof read. Of course I suppose I could be like you and assume you type like crap specifically to offend my sensibilities and religion.
Liberals areas seem to not say Christmas from what I have seen and heard and been to .
People have been banned and instructed to not say Christmas,it;s been well documentated over the years.
Thee is a crowd alright, that crowd is the PC turds which do not want to say what the holiday is for because it has a word called Christ in it.
Schools are the same thing BTW.
Again you ignore the points about people saying thanksgiving and 4th July but then again you did say you want others to acknowledge others around them so shall we ban those holidays or just those which you celebrate and not celebrate? Hope you can understand my Yoda language especially on the last paragraph.
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