If conservatives embrace this attitude then why is it of any surprise when liberals embrace this attitude? Next month the left will make a big show about how Christmas is nothing special and there will be a collective and predictable howl on FR about it.
Yet I imagine that plenty of the people who've posted on this topic would agree that Christmas is nothing special if the observance of the holiday were to get in the way of making a buck.
Yes, FReepers generally rail against the damage the Democrats do to our culture yet the majority on this topic are themselves chip, chip, chipping away at it just the same as any atheist Democrat.
You want to complain about how Democrats and liberals are eroding our culture and our families yet here's so many of you casually dismissing a family-oriented holiday because, HEY!!!!, there's money to be made!!! And your worship of the Almighty Dollar comes at the cost of the worship of God.
So all of these workers...millions of them across the country...will be working on Thanksgiving Day instead of being closer to their families and a bunch of you are just fine with this.
But give it a week or so and every last one of you will be upset about the decline of the family and our culture and let me pull off a glove and slap you in the face with it when I say that each of you (you know who you are) has contributed to the cultural decline of our country with your posts here today.
And don't think the libs and the DUmmies won't quote the legion of hypocrisies on this topic because they will.
But worst of all is how so many of you will live out your crass, money-grubbing attitudes and (lack of) values and chip, chip, chip away at the things that made our country great.
How many of you would so easily surrender your liberties and our freedoms so long as you can shop at Wal Mart and buy pizza at a crappy pizza chain on one of our nation's most important holidays?
The Bible speaks to people like yourselves:
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[d])
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright.
And so a bunch of conservatives sold their birthright on Thanksgiving for some cheap crap at Wal Mart and a crappy pizza.
The liberals will whine about Christmas being nothing special...BUT, try to get them to WORK on the Christmas day that means nothing to them. Provided they have a job of course.
I don’t think people should have to work Thanksgiving, but they also don’t have to have the job if they make this decision on their own.