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To: Echo Talon

The majority isn't being silenced. The majority is being forced to share its place with other cultures as it exits said stores. These stores are not catering only to Anglo-Saxon protestants, after all. Aah, the beauty of capitalism.

Christmas is a convoluted holiday to begin with. Isn't jesus the one who is supposed to be receiving presents?


3 posted on 12/24/2004 1:21:48 AM PST by MaelstromWar
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To: MaelstromWar
Christmas is a convoluted holiday to begin with. Isn't jesus the one who is supposed to be receiving presents?

It's a celebration in Western culture. Exchanging of gifts is a long-held tradition.

5 posted on 12/24/2004 1:32:32 AM PST by stands2reason
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To: MaelstromWar

I'm not Anglo-Saxon nor a Protestant and still I celebrate Christmas. Is that unusual where you come from?


6 posted on 12/24/2004 1:33:53 AM PST by stands2reason
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To: MaelstromWar; ETERNAL WARMING
"These stores are not catering only to Anglo-Saxon protestants, after all. Aah, the beauty of capitalism."

I don't think what we're witnessing is the beauty of capitalism. What we're seeing is the banality of greed. We have a retail establishment that in its collective greed has basically said, "Now that we have over 76 percent of the market locked up, let's just disregard their cultural biases so we can grovel for the last blood cent." I think the beauty of capitalism would be more rightly demonstrated by some retailer that says I know who my market is, the 76 percent of Americans who believe Christmas stands for something other than spending money, and sticks to its principles...not sells them.

7 posted on 12/24/2004 1:38:09 AM PST by Cornpone ((Aging Warrior))
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To: MaelstromWar
Christmas is a convoluted holiday to begin with.

Someone pissed in your glass of eggnog again, didn't they.
29 posted on 12/24/2004 3:46:33 AM PST by pyx (Luke 2. [11] For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.)
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To: MaelstromWar
These stores are not catering only to Anglo-Saxon protestants, after all.

Christmas is only a Protestant holiday?

Somebody better tell the Pope.

49 posted on 12/24/2004 8:22:58 AM PST by B Knotts
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To: MaelstromWar
These stores are not catering only to Anglo-Saxon protestants, after all.

Tell that to the to the thousands of Christians in the Sudan that are have been murdered the past year... Maybe you have a misunderstanding of what Christianity is? Christianity is NOT a race...

52 posted on 12/24/2004 12:23:49 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: MaelstromWar

Too difficult for you to even capitalize His name???

SOB


57 posted on 12/25/2004 6:56:14 AM PST by realpatriot (Some spelling errors may have been intentionally included)
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To: MaelstromWar

"Isn't Jesus the one who is supposed to be receiving presents?"

I believe that He was the present to us.


58 posted on 12/25/2004 7:02:08 AM PST by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: MaelstromWar

You are confusing inclusion with assimilation. It is one thing to respect & acknowledge holidays of various cultures... It is another to pretend that your own doesn't exist.


62 posted on 12/25/2004 7:12:53 AM PST by Sloth (Al Franken is a racist.)
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