[Excellence]

Click on "holiday items" and get: Items 1-20 of 7970 total sorted by: Best Match Price High to Low Price Low to High Top Seller New Alpha A-Z Alpha Z-A

That's seven thousand seventy nine items.

[I'm ALL Right!]

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.

[CDHart]

It's a fake.

Carolyn

[Steve_Seattle]

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.

[familyop]

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.

[sockmonkey]

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.

[ChessExpert]

I went to Target.com and searched on Christmas, Hanukah, and Kwanzaa. Here are the results:
Christmas 46913
Hanukah 52
Kwanzaa 298

[Fruitbat]

"Walmart is a worldwide organization?"

That's it?

So why don't they have San Francisco 49ers wear in the DC area stores instead of Redskins and Ravens stuff?

Seems to me they can do a store-by-store "holiday" theme as well.

[familyop]

And "Siberian shamanism"...? That appears to be a straw man inserted into a fake e-mail. Historians point to Saturnalia and Sol Invictus (and Mithra for some), instead. During the 4th Century, the Roman Emperor Constantine consolidated Christmas with the celebrations of those December 25th holidays.

[no dems]

Has anyone checked this out on Snopes.com?

[Sam Cree]

So does this mean that retailers and shopping districts are going to stop putting up Christmas decorations and playing carols from October through December?

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

FYI - Walmart head honchos think the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ is equivalent to "Kwanza", the fabricated, fake holiday invented by a felon (which, incidenetally, sounds more like a festival of communism than anything religious - God isn't even mentioned in its description).

I vote for homemade presents anyway. More fun, more meaningful, and also this - wouldn't it be a good idea if Jesus were the center of Christmas, rather than "me" and "what I want"? Or feeling obliged to cater to others' selfishness? How many people buy presents because of a feeling of obligation? Just give it up. Give something that helps a person remember God. That's what it's all about. The other stuff is just fluff at best.

Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.

[Edit35]

If true, no shopping at WalMart this year.

Probably the better anyway. Most stuff we get there is unnecessary. I'll save $$$$$.

[Doohickey]

Oh, for crying out loud. It's not even Veteran's Day yet. Some of you people need to enjoy the good things in life instead of searching far and wide for ways to get pissed off.

[armymarinedad]

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.’

On the holiday page is a link saying "not what you are looking for click on the link to match your word Christmas. Click on the link and 7970 items to match Christmas. That's over 20 times as many as both of the others combined.

[SaltyJoe]

The Wal-Marts I visit sell statues of Jesus...made in CHINA of all places. I've also see posters of Pope John Paul II sold at Wal-Mart right in front of the check out registers!

Sometimes I think there are forces trying to manipulate Wal-Mart into becoming tied down with unionized shipping/trucking. I just haven't found enough evidence to say "Wal-Mart is the devil". In fact, I've even run into Target managers scouting out Wal-Mart to see how it's done the right way.

If there's a department store that bucks the trend, I'll bet it's Wal-Mart. Who knows, since most of the stores are in the back woods and rural areas, Wal-Mart shoppers wouldn't be offended to see Christ put back in "Christ"mas. Wal-Mart may just take up the banner on this and soundly defeat anyone who gets offended with religious imagery.

"Don't like it? Don't buy it."

I have to walk by near-nudy women magazines all the time. I get ramped-up like a rocket ship every time I see a busty bikini babe flirting at the camera. I'd rather not have to gimp along poking a hole through my pants zipper; yet, our nation makes this something I have to deal with. Thus, everyone is going to have to deal with a Crucifix in the face the same way I have to put up with busty bikini making all of the women feel inadequate babes at the news stand.

[Clemenza]

Bill Donahue is a drama queen.

[muir_redwoods]

Bravo Sierra

[ArcadeQuarters]

WalMart isn't this stupid.

[Jackknife]

I guess I need to go put on my waders.