Even as a protestant, I always found the phrase "practicing Catholic" funny. It seemed to always be a catch phrase for dissenters who put their personal opinions above immutable and unchangeable Church doctrine. Like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry bragging about being "practicing Catholics", all the while never letting their "faith" affect their decisions or actions regardless of how morally repugnant they were. To this day I've never heard an assenting Catholic use that phrase.
I've been shopping at Target for years and will continue to do so regardless of their decision to keep the Salvation Army bell ringers from the front of their stores.
I'm not surprised someone who brags about being a "practicing Catholic" would put their own self-interests above their princliples, assuming they even have any.
I donate every single charitable item I have to my local Salvation Army,
How "practicing Catholic" of you to limit your charitable giving exclusively to your used junk. You are certainly in good company in giving others your trash. President Bill Clinton is famous for donated his used underwear for the tax right-off.
but I refuse to stop shopping at Target.
I would guess that there are many other behaviors you refuse to stop doing because you find them inconvenient, regardless of their moral, political, or economic implications.
Just as other people here have the freedom believe one thing, the people at Target have the freedom to believe another.
Yes, the question is whether to support someone else's actions with your discretionary spending. A "practicing Catholic" probably would not see any problem with anyone's actions, regardless of how overtly anti-Christian they are.
I'm certainly not saying the boycott is wrong. Go for it.
That's the most morally relativistic thing I've heard in a long time.
I just have too many reasons not to follow it.
Selfishness is a surprisingly honest excuse for your admittedly unprincipled behavior.
So, while I understand the strength of all of your convictions, I don't share them.
Not surprising at all. I doubt you could share any convictions with anyone since it is so doubtful that you have any.
Christmas does not mean RETAIL for me.
Nor I suspect does Christmas mean anything profoundly religious to you, either.
What these stores believe in or don't believe in doesn't mean anything to me.
Exactly. When one lacks principles, the actions of others are meaningless.
They are a means to an end.
Thank you for confirming my working hypothesis about self-proclaimed "practicing Catholics". Catholic doctrine has always explicitly condemned the concept of a means justifying an end, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to know that or even care if you did.
You are hilarious.