Posted on 11/29/2005 11:36:32 AM PST by Pastor Fletcher
Please, PLEASE, tell me you are kidding!
When I saw the line “’A Petition to Stop the Ban on the Use of "Christmas" By Major Retailers” I thought it was a joke. I was not taken back by the possibility of retailers ‘banning Christmas.” No, I was taken back by the absurdity of a petition to address this issue.
Christians in America, will you please wake up and get a grip? We are so focused on the “culture war” we are neglecting the battle for the souls of men. The slippery slope is not the eventual dechristianization of America. GOOD GRIEF! The slippery slope is the growing distraction away from the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Why are Christians asking non-Christians to live, act and think like Christians? We have been begging the public schools to pray to God for us. We have been all hot and bothered because our courts will not publicly display the Word of God for us. Now, we are miffed that retailers do not love the Son of God for us. This latest tempest in a teapot is indicative of how desperate Christians are to be embraced by the culture.
We have got our heads buried so deep in our history books that we have lost our theological and biblical vision. If the only way we can “keep Christ in Christmas” is to boycott Walmart for saying “Happy Holidays” we have the problem, not Wal-Mart. The sad ironies of this are profound.
We preach, “You cannot serve God and mammon.” Yet, when the local retailer does not serve up our mammon with the proper Christian greeting, we take our maxed out credit cards and go buy our mammon elsewhere. We are using money to bribe if not outright extort retailers into making us more comfortable with our own convictions. We have become Simon the Sorcerer for the new millennium. We are telling retailers “say what pleases me, and I will give you money.” When the world will not give us what we want, we whine and complain like spoiled children. Our boycott is little more than sophisticated temper tantrum. Miffed, we sign our petitions and take our money to the closest store that will gladly tell us what we want to hear as long as we bring our money.
What’s next: “Concerned Christians Petition Satan to Stop Being So Mean.”
Geez, the stories of what goes on in schools is unbelievable. I'm glad my kids are out of school, but I have grandkids in there now. It's hard to imagine what the future will bring.
Male Bovine Fecal Effluvia.Objecting to retailers' active burying of the reason for the season is not being "too lazy to get off their fat butts and shine a little light themselves."
Methinks you need a premise check.
B'shem Y'shua
No! As followers of the Christ we can Cast out the Devil.
b'shem Y'shua
Methinks you're being a tad defensive. Does this mean you're just sitting back expecting the government and retailers to spread the message of Christmas on your behalf? Sounds like it to me.
Wow...Christian taliban here on Free Republic? The muslims also think God commands them to make non-muslims "think and act" like muslims.
Wow, someone who is clueless about history and reality.
Besides, the original poster of this thread is supposedly a Pastor.
No REAL pastor would speak like that.
You're defending a troll.
My philosophy exactly. Unfortunately, my town is full of elitist SOB's who don't realize when they're being incredibly rude or petty and certainly won't apologize for even the most grievous of errors.
I've got a burqua just your size!
Let me break out the Crayolas so you will be sure to understand.
Either Jesus is the Son of God and there is only one triune God or what the Muslims say is true. The Muslims deny the deity of Christ.
I would not be so sanguine to be drawing a moral equivalence between Christianity and Islam. It's one or the other.
Choose.
No real pastor would speak like that? Yeah...right. I guess your pastor is just sweetness and light and never points out the moral faults of American Christians. the ugly truth is that Christians in America as a group are...LAZY. We've turned over our role in society to government and demanded respect while we whine.
I don't know what brand of Christianity YOU practice but having lived in a Muslim theocracy for many years, in my opinion, it's a heck of a lot closer to Islam and the Christianity of the dark ages than the spirit of Christ.
No real pastor would say the stupid garbage the hony pastor troll said.
IF you knew anything about REAL Bible believing Christians, you'd know immediately that the so-called pastor is a troll directly because of what he said.
How come everyone else knows this guy is a liar troll but you?
I don't know...perhaps for the same reason so many people on this thread don't recognize the truth in what he said?
What truth?
There is a culture war goign on, and his premise is false.
I also suppose you'll agree with teh troll spotted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1533021/posts?page=34#34
Thanks, Mel.
What truth? Are you deliberately being obtuse or do you just not know any better? Do you REALLY think it's the job of the federal government to promote Christianity? Do you REALLY think it's the obligation of retailers to spread the Christmas message in a way that is pleasing to you?
IBTZ? Deserves something along those lines, mebbee...
If the earliest of Christians had to depend on government and merchants to spread the Word of God in their behalf, we wouldn't be having a conversation about Christianity, would we? Did they sit back and whine because they had to do it on their own at the risk of their very lives?
Defensive?
How so?
You're amusing me.
How is being amused defensive?
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