There are many reasons to picket Wal-Mart - their discriminatory hiring practices, their predatory expansion policy, their exploitation of cheap foreign labor - to name just a few. The shear stupidity and single-mindedness that leads these religious nuts to picket a Wal-Mart because they don't use the word Christmas is astounding and incredibly sad. A true Christian would be using their spare time in a more positive way - like feeding the hungry or caring for the infirmed or maybe protesting an illegal war for oil. In the end, Jesus doesn't care about Wal-Mart’s ad campaign. He can handle his own PR.
Amen.
[Hat tip to Born at the Crest for the link.]
3 comments:
Kind what this says, but they're not advertising Jesus, they're repackaging him. Or maybe rebranding him.
Mike
The bottom line is that Christmas is in the heart. Real Christians know that and all the retail signs or media slogans in the world will not change that.
Semper fi, thanks for the reading recommendation. I'll check that book out.
I agree that attempts to take the Ten Commandments out of courthouses or off the Pledge of Allegiance go a bit far, but as a Christian I'm not happy about dragging the retail industry into the fracas. Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ and has absolutely nothing to do with shopping and consumerism. I prefer to celebrate Christmas as a Christian by going to church, giving to the poor and sharing my love and time with family and friends.
Actually, I'd like to see Christians boycott the mass consumerism of Christmas completely. Its lost its meaning and does very little to glorify God - regardless of the sentiment on that Hallmark card.
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