Best Buy is a "Happy Holidays" hold-out, so they are off my shopping list. They also have the most disgusting TV ads , particularly the slut who clears the table for sex when she sees her boyfriend at the door with a "happy holiday" Best Buy package. That's the true secular spirit of Best Buy's holiday, I guess, but I don't have to reward them for it.
If just 1/2 the energy you use to get people to say "Merry Christmas" were used to support the troops, perhaps they, too, could have a Merry Christmas.
Find a deployed serviceman (or womans ) family, and buy the kids toys, or pay their heating bill.
Buy some Christmas cards, and send them to the troops.
Gad, fight a fight that is significant.
I saw a Target ad last night that said "Merry Christmas". That and the Salvation Army donation will probably mean more Christmas spending for me there.
BTW, Prescott and the area around it are, IMO, are absolutely gorgeous. I love it up there. I'm stuck down here in the desert, so my shopping choices are kind of limited.
I thought we had enough about this last year.
There is no war, but constantly ranting about it will surely make it appear that way.
Christmas shopping is just shopping. If you want to turn it into a crusade, have a good time. Is that a good time???
Complaining and whining that some retail outlet doesn't yell "Merry Christmas" at you with it's advertising isn't exactly spreading the message Christ brought.
With Consumers Day.
MERRY CONSUMERS DAY
It's a good idea. Also, send a Christmas card with a Virgin and Child stamp, or a Ronald Reagan stamp to the ACLU.
Wish them a peaceful and happy Christmas.
If the retail store doesn't say: "MERRY CHRISTMAS" I don't shop there, I don't care if I have to die without what they have, die I will......
Any time I see a newspaper in our area that has some opinion of why we SHOULDN'T say Merry Christmas, I send in another opinion as to why we should....
If we boycott the retailers that won't say merry christmas, then they'll get the message....as the saying goes: "More bang for your buck".....
Oh yes, the 8th wonder of the world is that no matter what Walmart does or doesn't do, it is worthy of them being chastised for it.
Myself, I wouldn't shop there if they condemned Christmas OR promoted it.
I just didn't like shopping there when I went there.
Christmas is not only a Christian holiday. It was made a FEDERAL holiday in 1870.
So to not use the word "Christmas" in order not to offend other religions' followers in the United States, is silly. It is a government recognized holiday, that is called, by act of Congress, Christmas.
People need to be informed of this. It's like using the word niggardly. Nothing to do with the percieved offense.
What if all the Christians in the country went just one year where they didn't buy any presents, but went the hand-made route or just got together? It would be sort of a year of jubilee from the materialism and I can guarantee that the next year every retailer in the nation would be saying 'Merry Christmas'. It's a big what if and I know it won't happen. But it's always fun to dream.
Shop at the smaller specialty stores. It would give them a much needed boost against the giants who sell you nothing but crap anyway.
Best Buy considers the use of Merry Christmas to be disrespectful.
afa.net has a nice compilation of corporations which support Christmas and those which declare Christmas to be disrespectful.
The "Christmas War" seems to start earlier and earlier each year...
I wonder just who it was who claimed this country is still a "Christian" nation.
Good for you. I will pay attention to political correctness problems when I chose where to shop and celebrate this Christmas season. "Holiday shopers" on this thread can do their thing...while Christians can do their thing.
I don't recognize "Christmas shopping season" as a sacred event, sorry.
Happy Thanksgiving, though.
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