Posted on 06/06/2006 7:51:04 PM PDT by Coleus
Don't let the anti-Christmas crowd kick Christ out of Christmas this year
Companies are now working on their Christmas promotions. Let them hear from you today.
June is not the time when we think of Christmas. But June is the time when retailers begin making their plans for Christmas promotions — store banners, newspaper ads, TV commercials, etc.
Remember last Christmas when many national retailers banned the use of Merry Christmas and allowed only the use of Season's Greetings or Happy Holidays or even winter holidays? Remember how some stores did not allow their employees to say "Merry Christmas" to their customers? Remember how Christmas trees were called Holiday trees? There are companies which don't want to offend a small handful of their customers by mentioning Christmas because Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ. However, they don't mind offending Christians by refusing to use the term Christmas.
We could be headed for another year when similar incidents occur, unless we let companies know right now that we will not accept the banning of Christmas in their promotions. Now is the time to let the retailers know that if they ban the use of the term Christmas, you will not be shopping with them during the Christmas season!
Send a message to the nation's largest retailers. Your message will also go to the National Association of Advertisers which most major advertisers are members of.
Take Action
Please help us secure one million signatures by forwarding this to friends and family. We will not be able to secure the one million signatures without your support. So please forward this message. It will be too late once the companies already have their plans made and material printed. Let them hear from you today!
Click Here To Petition Retailers Now!
or copy and paste this link to your browser:
https://secure.afa.net/afa/afapetition/signpetition.asp?id=1550
Then from Thanksgiving to Super Bowl Weekend (when the decorations officially come down), my house is 100% decked out for Christmas and I am usually sitting by my fireplace with eggnog or some other festive drink listening to Christmas music.
Screw the miserable atheists.
Sheehs, let us at least enjoy the 4th of July before worrying about Christmas.
Thank you for the reminder.
Last year the local TJMaxx stores had lots of Happy Hanaukkah and Happy Holidays signs. Not one Merry Christmas sign. I'll have to email them.
Well then we'll have to remember to shout out a 'Happy Birthday' to Mr. Newton.
Good thing God created the universe, or else we'd have never heard of Mr. N.
At the same time, I want it to be sincere when people celebrate.
Last year I knew folks who were putting up "Merry Christmas" signs in awkward locations, basically just for spite. They would not have been doing this but for the sake of annoying everyone, Christians and non-Christians alike.
But then this is a weird state I live in, and these people behave weirdly all year 'round...
You know what would really put Christ back into Christmas? If we stopped celebrating Christmas by shopping. Just say no to making the Christmas season an occasion for greed. Give to charities instead of buying presents for people who already have a lot of stuff. Why on earth does a religious holiday depend on merchants reinforcing a religious message?
May I be the first to wish you Merry Christmas!
The folks against Christ, Christians and Christmas bitched about all three last Christmas, and what did they achieve besides the usual? Nada. FOX personalities helped create this phony crisis just like certain media personalities are creating other crises which don't exist.
Who gives a damn what the anti-Christmas crowd says or does? It hasn't affected one single person's enjoyment or celebration.
This year for Christmas I hope come people get a grip.
I think the point is.....there was NO CHRISTMAS in many places.....only Happy Holidays, Happy Hannukah....etc....the frogs water has boiled...
And a Merry Christmas to you pbrown.
And may you enjoy many, many more.
Merry Christmas to you and yours as well, NM, and a Happy New Year. May you also enjoy many many more:-)
Where was this, a Wal-Mart? (I'd think people would be grateful their religious holy day wasn't being commercialized.) Seems to me Christmas came right on schedule last year.
BTW, if a place I shopped at did something like that I'd just tell them "Too bad you don't have Christmas here, I'll have to go someplace else for my shopping."
O, ne Zot! JUNE, people. It's JUNE!
LOL.....actually I don't shop much for Christmas anymore in stores......so in some ways being "grateful" that it's gone from stores could be a blessing, except they try to pretend and skew it so much.....I am more into celebrating DEC 25th....not Oct 31 through Jan 20th.....
LOL!
The incessant blasting of "GET THIS GIFT!!!!!" for months leading up to the actual holy day itself is really grating. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if we soon see the opposite--people asking stores to tone DOWN their pushing of Christmas hype.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.