2007 Christmas Stamps (Vanity)

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2007stamps/downloadcenter.htm</em: ^ | 10-25-2007 | None

[lilylangtree]

The Postal Service announced the new 2007 Christmas stamp "The Madonna of the Carnation" for Catholics. Also, the USPS came out with the Christmas stamps commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID (Sep 28). Plus, USPS will release stamps recognizing Kwanzaa and Hanukkah (Oct 26). And for those in the "none of the above" category, the Holiday Knits stamps series will be available as of today.

I commend the Postal Service for its political correctness. However, as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?

Has our country moved so far away from its Christian foundation that we must now ask "where is our representation"?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I would like to see a JESUS stamp....maybe with all of His name (Prince of peace, everlasting, the Lion of Judah etc) That would be cool and very representative of Christian faith. In addition I would like to see an Easter stamp.....stating He has risen.

What color would the representation of Jesus be? There's no contemporary images, so it would be only a guess and it would open up a can of worms with those who are dogmatic on the subject. White Jesus, black Jesus, in between color, it doesn't matter, but it would be another bone of contention for those who are contentious.

[silentreignofheroes]

Geneva Bible..?

[Excellence]

Do you think they found Him in a cabbage patch?

[surelyclintonsbaddream]

Wrong, Jesus was totally without sin

[Dr. Eckleburg]

lol. After reading some of the threads in the RF, it’s difficult not to agree.

[gondramB]

>>Hey, if we want to get technical, Jesus was a criminal too. : )<<

>>Wrong, Jesus was totally without sin<<

Breaking the law isn’t automatically a sin or even “wrong”

[muawiyah]

St. Nicholas may have done that, but at the same time when the Sa'ami shaman came to your tipi for a visit, he climbed up to the top and tossed his bag of drugs, herbs, spices and mushrooms into the smokehole. He shortly followed after. When he left he climbed up the centerpole and went back out the smoke hole.

St. Nicholas may have done it once. If we can use Joe Stalin's murder of the shamen as a guide, there were at least 10,000 shamen across North Asia still doing that (even far beyond the Sapmai) as late as 1935. Imagine those shamen visiting every tribe member a couple of times per year, and you get an idea of how common that was.

The St. Nicholas stories are pretty clearly Christian inventions used to justify their co-option of the ancient Sa'ami traditions ~ sans their religious significance, of course.

BTW, it was still common in the late 1800s for Christmas decorations and Christmas cards to bear pictures of elves and red mushrooms with white dots.

[gracesdad]

Not a problem. Sorry if I overeacted.

[SuziQ]

Mary is simply pictured larger in the Christmas stamps, because, at the time of Jesus's birth, she WAS larger, since she was the adult.

As for the Church's emphasis on Mary, again, notwithstanding artwork you may have seen, the Church recognizes Mary as the Mother of the Almighty, and she was a vital part, and made the decision to be so, in our salvation, by agreeing to be that vessel to bear Christ into the world. It is for THAT that the Church honors her; we are only following the example set by Jesus at the Feast of Cana, when he told the servers to do what she asked them to do. He revered his mother, so we do likewise. She is not MORE important than Jesus, but she IS important to us, as she was to HIM.

[muawiyah]

God can be whatever He wants to be. Interesting that He manifests Himself in the mind of so many artists as pretty representative of the locals.

[MrLee]

Did the USPS have Christmas stamps in the 40’s honoring Nazism?
Boy this country has changed.....

[muawiyah]

And, the nearly annual passage of the Moon through it's cycles, and the rising or setting of various bright stars, etc.

You name it somebody was doing it ~

[Squawk 8888]

You don’t have to be an atheist to recognize the fact that we all create God in our own image.

[muawiyah]

What I said earlier, Mary, Mother of Jesus, is one of the people whose existence is prophesied in the Bible.

Not too many folks were ever prophesied.

[muawiyah]

Thanks ~ and it is truly noteworthy that the USPS, officially speaking, sees no further advantage to publishing any of these stamps than that you keep some of them in a desk drawer for the rest of your life.

It seems that in each and every issue, millions of dollars of stamps are never used.

That's FREE INCOME for USPS.

So, beloved customers, keep up the good work!

[muawiyah]

If USPS had existed, and if they could have made some money from it, they’d had some strange stamps even back in the 1930s. However, USPS didn’t exist then!

[swmobuffalo]

“back in the 1930s. However, USPS didn’t exist then!”

This little factoid says differently.

Oldest Post Office is in Castine, ME. This office has been in continuous operation since 1814.

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/postalfacts.htm

http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/postal_service_begins.htm

[muawiyah]

You'll find, if you bother to look, the entity known as the United States Postal Service began operation on July 1, 1971.

See: http://www.usps.com/history/history/his3.htm#SERVICE

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I wasn’t actually seeing an image.....just the name JESUS.

[sionnsar]

I didn't know Carnation, WA, (named for the dairy) had a Madonna. It's only a few miles from here, I'll have to drive over.