And if it is a legitimate email, who cares? They are absolutely right... Wal-mart is the largest retailer in the world and they have to cater to more than the Christians during the month of December.
Boycott Wal-Mart? Ha! Fat chance.
Try the searches on their Website!! They refuse to acknowledge Christmas for fear of offending but they sure come up with a lot of Islamic propoganda and stuff when you do a search for Ramadan. Nice that they want to include everybody EXCEPT Christians.
Wal-Mart is too big to be brought down?
US Steel.
Let he who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.
Reality is framed by the incarnation of God in flesh, and those who deny it will find themselves adrift in a pointless universe.
I guess you didn't read the whole article Donohue wrote. He said that on the Walmart site if you click on Kwanza you get lots of items, same is true clicking on Hanukkah. But, when you click on "Christmas" up comes the advice "We brought you our "holiday page", why not "Christmas page." Sounds discriminatory to me. Donohue is a smart cookie. He would't get his panties in a bunch over nothing. Read John Gibson's new book on why we don't have Christmas any more. Christmas isn't PC.
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.
You assessed correctly exept for month of December attributed to Christians, or so we think.
The birth of Osiris coincided with the day of the summer and winter solstice, depending on the hemisphere, and on this day the sun god would ride through the heavens in his chariot. The sungod Helios would ride through the sky in his sun chariot drawn by horses as depicted in the great fountain of Versailles. In the Hindu culture, it is the Sûrya, and his horse-drawn sun chariot, driven by his charioteer Aruna who rides across the sky, and in other cultures the chariot is drawn by other animals such as the goat (Zeus) or the reindeer. This same pagan practice is held in high esteem to this day, and has virtually successfully supplanted Jesus Christ as the main feature of Christmas. On the 25th of December, Santa rides across the skies in his reindeer drawn chariot. He is made acceptable by his friendly rotund appearance as introduced by Walt Disney, but he has the same characteristics as the ancient sun deities.
Origin of Santa Claus: 4th century: Historical evidence shows that St. Nicholas never existed as a human. He was rather a Christianized version of various Pagan sea gods —the Greek god Poseidon, the Roman god Neptune, and the Teutonic god Hold Nickar. In the early centuries of the Christian church, many Pagan gods and goddesses were humanized and converted to Christian saints. When the church created the persona of St. Nicholas, they adopted Poseidon’s title “the Sailor.” They picked up his last name from Nickar. Various temples of Poseidon became shrines of St. Nicholas.[xxiv]
The theology of Santa is also in line with this thinking, since Santa, as taught to most children, has the attributes of God.
1. He is virtually omnipresent. He can visit hundreds of millions of homes in one night.
2. He is omniscient. He monitors each child; he is all-seeing and all-knowing; he knows when they are bad and good. He can manufacture gifts for hundreds of millions of children, and deliver them in one night — each to the correct child.
3. He is all-good and all-just. He judges which children have shown good behaviour and rewards them appropriately. Bad children are bypassed or receive a lump of coal.
4. He is eternal.
Want to know about Ishtar (Easter)also?.
click here: http://www.amazingdiscoveries.org/wineofbabylon-p3.html
You assessed correctly exept for month of December attributed to Christians, or so we think.
The birth of Osiris coincided with the day of the summer and winter solstice, depending on the hemisphere, and on this day the sun god would ride through the heavens in his chariot. The sungod Helios would ride through the sky in his sun chariot drawn by horses as depicted in the great fountain of Versailles. In the Hindu culture, it is the Sûrya, and his horse-drawn sun chariot, driven by his charioteer Aruna who rides across the sky, and in other cultures the chariot is drawn by other animals such as the goat (Zeus) or the reindeer. This same pagan practice is held in high esteem to this day, and has virtually successfully supplanted Jesus Christ as the main feature of Christmas. On the 25th of December, Santa rides across the skies in his reindeer drawn chariot. He is made acceptable by his friendly rotund appearance as introduced by Walt Disney, but he has the same characteristics as the ancient sun deities.
Origin of Santa Claus: 4th century: Historical evidence shows that St. Nicholas never existed as a human. He was rather a Christianized version of various Pagan sea gods —the Greek god Poseidon, the Roman god Neptune, and the Teutonic god Hold Nickar. In the early centuries of the Christian church, many Pagan gods and goddesses were humanized and converted to Christian saints. When the church created the persona of St. Nicholas, they adopted Poseidon’s title “the Sailor.” They picked up his last name from Nickar. Various temples of Poseidon became shrines of St. Nicholas.[xxiv]
The theology of Santa is also in line with this thinking, since Santa, as taught to most children, has the attributes of God.
1. He is virtually omnipresent. He can visit hundreds of millions of homes in one night.
2. He is omniscient. He monitors each child; he is all-seeing and all-knowing; he knows when they are bad and good. He can manufacture gifts for hundreds of millions of children, and deliver them in one night — each to the correct child.
3. He is all-good and all-just. He judges which children have shown good behaviour and rewards them appropriately. Bad children are bypassed or receive a lump of coal.
4. He is eternal.
Want to know about Ishtar (Easter)also?.
click here: http://www.amazingdiscoveries.org/wineofbabylon-p3.html
You are right, I urge all Christians to do their Kwanzaa, Ramadan and Hanukkah shopping at Wal-Mart. I'm sure that they will not miss the puny amount of purchases Christians make at this time of year. All of those shipping containers that appear in Wal-Mart parking lots at this time of year are filled with Kwanzaa Corn Husks.
You assessed correctly except for month of December attributed to Christians, or so we think.
The birth of Osiris coincided with the day of the summer and winter solstice, depending on the hemisphere, and on this day the sun god would ride through the heavens in his chariot. The sungod Helios would ride through the sky in his sun chariot drawn by horses as depicted in the great fountain of Versailles. In the Hindu culture, it is the Sûrya, and his horse-drawn sun chariot, driven by his charioteer Aruna who rides across the sky, and in other cultures the chariot is drawn by other animals such as the goat (Zeus) or the reindeer. This same pagan practice is held in high esteem to this day, and has virtually successfully supplanted Jesus Christ as the main feature of Christmas. On the 25th of December, Santa rides across the skies in his reindeer drawn chariot. He is made acceptable by his friendly rotund appearance as introduced by Walt Disney, but he has the same characteristics as the ancient sun deities.
Origin of Santa Claus: 4th century: Historical evidence shows that St. Nicholas never existed as a human. He was rather a Christianized version of various Pagan sea gods —the Greek god Poseidon, the Roman god Neptune, and the Teutonic god Hold Nickar. In the early centuries of the Christian church, many Pagan gods and goddesses were humanized and converted to Christian saints. When the church created the persona of St. Nicholas, they adopted Poseidon’s title “the Sailor.” They picked up his last name from Nickar. Various temples of Poseidon became shrines of St. Nicholas.[xxiv]
The theology of Santa is also in line with this thinking, since Santa, as taught to most children, has the attributes of God.
1. He is virtually omnipresent. He can visit hundreds of millions of homes in one night.
2. He is omniscient. He monitors each child; he is all-seeing and all-knowing; he knows when they are bad and good. He can manufacture gifts for hundreds of millions of children, and deliver them in one night — each to the correct child.
3. He is all-good and all-just. He judges which children have shown good behaviour and rewards them appropriately. Bad children are bypassed or receive a lump of coal.
4. He is eternal.
Want to know about Ishtar (Easter)also?.
click here: http://www.amazingdiscoveries.org/wineofbabylon-p3.html
Wal-Mart's base is in the U. S. and it started in the U. S.
therefore, Those Wal-Mart stores that are in the U. S. should show christian holiday greetings, symbols, etc.
Sorry for the multiple post Fringe, no excuse anyhow due to lost connection
At least we now know where your tast lies.
I, on the other hand, will have no trouble boycotting Walmart, whether they are guilty of this discrimination or not. I rarely set foot inside Walmart doors.
I agree. I won't boycott Wal-Mart over this.