Posted on 11/18/2006 5:53:56 AM PST by Wil H
The Christmas shopping season is upon us and it seems that we have won the opening skirmish it the war with secularism to stamp out Christmas. Walmart have agreed to let Christmas back into their stores this year. That is great news but I am sure it is the power of the almighty dollar rather than the Almighty himself that drove them to that decision, but then, God does move in mysterious ways.
This year I am going shopping prepared and I invite you to join me in the campaign.
I am going to carry a number of letters, sealed in envelopes and addressed to the Store Manager. Any time I don't find any evidence of Christmas celebration in a store I will give the manager a letter and leave.
Here is what the letter says:
Dear Sir or Madam,
I came to your store today with the express purpose of spending a significant percentage of my $XXXX (put what you like in here) Christmas shopping budget.
However I note that your store chooses to no longer participate in the celebration of Christmas and therefore you don’t qualify to receive my Christmas dollars.
A quintessential part of Christmas is the sharing of the joy of giving and doing so in festive Christmas environment, it is estimated 95% of Americans celebrate the holiday and fortunately for them, and I, there are many other stores that embrace the Christmas spirit.
My Christmas spending, as I am certain many other’s, will be done with those that wish to share the spirit of holiday. Should you ever decide to participate again I will consider returning as a customer, until that time, ALL my business goes elsewhere.
Sincerely,
XXXXXXXX
Merry Christmas
If a substantial number of people did this, maybe the message that Walmart got would reach the other retail outlets and perhaps we could get our Christmas back into the public square. If the stores all start decorating for Christmas again do you not think think they will pressure the municipality to decorate the streets appropriately?
This year, Prescott AZ has street banners on downtown lamp posts declaring "Prescott, Your Christmas City" I might just take a trip there to do my Christmas shopping.
Thanks. Believe me, it's a long time in coming. I have three children whose concept of Christmas revolves very largely around what and how much they can get. My wife and I are both feeling a bit guilty and resolved not to let it continue.
I sympathize. I have eight children, and we always seem to buy too much. My husband, especially, likes to give them (and me :-) Stuff that we don't need, when I would rather just have some time free from rushing around.
And now, college football beckons...!
Happy Christmas to you, too!
I think the boss gets to decide what employees say to customers.
Frankly if they say Merry Christmas and use it in advertising it is fine by me. But to turn Christmas shopping into boycotting is silly and frankly makes Christians look bad.
After all, what would Jesus think about Wal Mart or Target or boycotts in honor of his birthday. For crying out loud.
Right, and I suppose they don't let their kids even know there's a Christmas, and they probably work on Dec 25.
LOL
You should go there just because Prescott is one of the greatest places in the world. They always light up their courthouse every Christmas. I need to go there this year. Probably not until closer to Christmas with our schedule. My younger children still keep asking when we're moving there.
If by some magical means the word "holiday" were to be removed from our vocabulary the entire media, retail stores, advertisers and the such would be rendered mute at this time of year.
Neither of us speaks for Jesus. Boycotting is not silly. It is a legal non violent way to make a point. It is done all the time on issues you may be in sympathy with. It doesn't make Christians look bad at at all, except to people that want to put them in the back of the bus, anyway, and why would Christians care what they think? I don't think any employee should be forced to say Merry Christmas. They simply should not be prohibited from saying it. The store has ever right to decide to advertise the holiday or not. Christians have every right to shop where they want, and if the store is prohibiting its Christian employees from saying the word. I can understand why they would want to shop elsewhere.
Which brings us to the phrase "He has more money than God".
I always used to tell girls I had more money than God.
It was a true statement.
I can't find any reference to God ever having had any money whatsoever.
And no doubt it will be once the ACLU figure out it is a concatenation of the words "Holy Day"...:-)
It's one of the worst commercials I've seen connected to Christmas. The implication is too obvious to ignore.
Macy's just played their holiday commercial that uses a Beatles' song instead of a Christmas one. They threw in a 'Merry Christmas' as part of a decoration on the backdrop. Underwhelming.
Eliminating Christmas from the public square is only their (the Leftists) first step. They've already abolished Nativity scenes from Public Property. Next they'll come after the Holiday itself. There's no stopping point for these fanatics.
A line has to be drawn somewhere and I think this is it. See my tagline for further explanation.
Besides, do you honestly think that they'll get away with abolishing the public holiday? PLEASE! The Unions would go berserk! They want that day off!
According to the report I heard late last week on local radio, Salvation Army bell ringers took in an estimated $9 million in front of Target stores last year. Seems Target has $8 million to make up for. I'll shop elsewhere this year.
Stores will and have acknowledge Hanukkah - straight up and straight forward - but somehow they seem to fear acknowledging similiar products for the Christmas holiday. I blasted Lands End last year when their advertising for their "holiday catalog" had a spread of stockings for sale (they were obviously Christmas motifs), but absolutely no mention of Christmas. They lost my business too.
I won't bother spending any money at Needless Markups either.
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Ha! I did all my Christmas shopping at Wal*Mart last weekend and as I was leaving I wished the "greeter" Merry Christmas and was told "And the same too you and a happy new year.
I was shocked but pleased.
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