Posted on 11/09/2005 11:50:22 AM PST by big'ol_freeper
WAL-MART BANS CHRISTMAS:
BOYCOTT LAUNCHED
A woman who recently complained to Wal-Mart that the store was replacing “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays” received an e-mail response from Customer Service. It appears below in its exact form:
“Walmart is a world wide organization and must remain conscious of this. The majority of the world still has different practices other than ‘christmas’ which is an ancient tradition that has its roots in Siberian shamanism. The colors associated with ‘christmas’ red and white are actually a representation of of the aminita mascera mushroom. Santa is also borrowed from the Caucuses, mistletoe from the Celts, yule log from the Goths, the time from the Visigoth and the tree from the worship of Baal. It is a wide wide world.”
To which Catholic League president Bill Donohue says: “This statement was signed by someone called Kirby. When I read it, I thought he might be drunk. But I was wrong. We sent Kirby’s response to Wal-Mart’s headquarters only to find that Dan Fogleman, Senior Manager, Public Relations, agrees. After acknowledging that he read Kirby’s response, Fogleman said, in part, the following”:
“As a retailer, we recognize some of our customers may be shopping for Chanukah or Kwanza gifts during this time of year and we certainly want these customers in our stores and to feel welcome, just as we do those buying for Christmas. As an employer, we recognize the significance of the Christmas holiday among our family of associates…and close our stores in observance, the only day during the year that we are closed.”
Bill Donohue says: “It’s nice to know that Wal-Mart is closed on a federal holiday. Now here is why I am asking the leaders of 126 religious organizations that span seven religious communities to boycott Wal-Mart. Go to its website and search for Hanukkah and up come 200 items. Click on Kwanzaa and up come 77. Click on Christmas, and here’s what you get: ‘We’ve brought you to our ‘Holiday’ page based on your search.’ In other words, Wal-Mart is practicing discrimination.”
Amen to that. Every store I've visited (and that's only about three of them) made me feel like I had left the United States for about 20 minutes.
If nothing else on this letter is valid, the fact that their website does descriminate, as stated, is disturbing...and makes me think again about shopping there.
Carolyn
The problem resides in the fact that Wal-Mart recognizes the proper name of religious holidays applying to non-Christians, but felt it had to change the word "Christmas" to something completely non-descript as "Holiday". The proper name is "Christmas", not "Holiday". "Holiday" could imply Memorial Day or Labor Day.
Maybe they could change Thanksgiving to "Black Friday Eve".
This is just another episode in the continuous cleansing of Christianity from the public square.
Martin Luther?
Jeremiah 10:3 & 4
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammer, that it move not.
Sorry for the confusion. It helps to look at the post being responded to for reference.
You should e-mail that to the Catholic League. I stand corrected regarding the website.
"A woman who buys her husband is definately a keeper.
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How much for the husband? What's a husband go for these days?
Let the left eat them up with lawsuits, bad publicity, regulation, unions, etc. Yawn....Wal-Mart? What's that?
THat is talking about carving it into a god and inlaying it with gold and silver, not leaving it as a tree. What self-respecting paganist would worship a tree that will put pine needles in their burbur rug that they would then snag in their foot in July because the Kirby didn't free it from it's velcro grip?
Okay, so what about Christmas. But what about the minimum wage hike they are calling for?
Is that you?
I am forwarding this hilarious picture to many of my beer drinking friends (which is pretty much all of them).
Ha! Thats a very polite way of saying it.
A couple of years ago I was browsing Christmas cards in a Fred Meyer store (West Coast chain, now owned by Krogers), and I didn't see ONE Christmas card with a religious theme.
D'OH!
I meant that buys her husband a shotgun.
PC is locking up. TIme for me to shut down.
We're boycotting the socialist "mainstreet" gangs instead of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart doesn't try to stop new business from being zoned or front fake greenies to stop competitors from doing business.
A google search for "Santa" +"amanita ascera" +"christmas"
turns up links to sites like cannabis culture, and I am shaman, as well as "the physics of christmas", which is a book which says all things Christmas have their roots in psychedelics...
Oh, yeah, I'm sure someone at Walmart, having become enlightened by the book, is sending out letters like this from Corporate-
I am guessing this is a hoax to promote the book, and I'm sorry Bill Donahue bit the apple.
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