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Leading supermarket chains Target, Walmart & Costco, all announced today that they will not be using the phrase "Merry Christmas" in their advertising.

What is wrong with including "season's greetings" alternatives, such as "Happy Holidays" and "Happy Hanukkah", in order to avoid offending non-Christians? The drive towards omitting "Merry Christmas" altogether, I think, is a clear demonstration of the anti-Christian mood that is currently moving through the US.

http://www.mediarelationsblog.com/

 

Oh, well I didn't see the thread. It was also discussed by Bill O'Reilly and he confirmed that Target, Walmart and Costco would not use the word Christmas in their advertising.

Walmart did announce that they would allow The Salvation Army at their stores:

http://walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=26&contId=5784

Here in part is what Bill O'Reilly said:

O'REILLY: Here's what we found out: Sears/Kmart would not answer our questions. Spokesman Chris Braithwaite simply ducked the issue. Their website banners: "Wish Book Holiday 2005." They were the worst we had to deal with. OK? Sears/Kmart. JCPenney says its catalog is always called "Christmas catalog." Federated Department Stores -- Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Burdines -- says the words "Merry Christmas" will be used in most advertising. Same thing at May, Filene's, Lord & Taylor, and Marshall Field's. But Kohl's refused to define how the company will deal with Christmas. Dillard's, however, will use the slogan "Discover Christmas, Discover Dillard's." So there you go. Shop where you like the atmosphere. Just remember, Kohl's and Sears/Kmart, basically, not all right.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511100014

 

I don't see how the heathen are offended by the word Christmas since they consider it just a secular holiday anyway. I think that if the merchants were really sincere, they would say that they do not believe in Christianity and would not advise anyone to buy a Christmas gift from them.

 

For some reason, I am really disgusted with merchants this year. I am a child of the 1950s, the golden age in America, when Christmas was a happy time even if you didn't have anything. I am getting sick of this annual fight over Christmas. We used to visit Marshall Field's in Chicago just for the wonderful decorations--and they were a Jewish store. It's only once a year. If you feel left out, maybe it's you, not society.

These merchants should keep a civil tongue in their heads. If they cannot be kind to their customers, they should say that they do not want Christmas business and leave us alone.

You know, we have a little restaurant downtown that is run by some people who are Eastern Orthodox. Because they have a different date for Christmas, they don't put up any decorations. But they refrain from discussing the issue, and they are nice people who love Jesus, and all is well.

I worked in a building in Chicago years ago that had a small poster from the humane society. It showed a 10-year-old boy with a puppy in his arms and the caption was, "Kindness spoken here."

 

Well, Daisy, I don't see why speech has to be controlled during this season. There is a problem with the word holiday also as it is short for holy day. I think that we need the freedom to express Christmas greetings in public even if we do work for some God-forsaken store like Target.

 

I work for an old office building; my boss has some of the most beautiful Christmas decorations in town but part of it is just the beauty of the old-fashioned lobby.

 

Newdow is claiming that he is a Grand Lubitz in his own church.

http://www.restorethepledge.com/

I have to wonder if these stores are not hurting themselves by not mentioning Christmas. They seemed to have turned it into a period of greed and materialism judging by the mob behavior of some of the crowds seeking a bargain even if others were knocked down, etc.

Maybe it is time that we Christians took a hard look at our Christmas spending patterns and maybe paid more attention to Easter.

What is your opinion?

 

The heathen are so lost. I was in Nordstroms, which caters to the upper-middle class, last night. There was not a sign of Christmas there.

As for the idea that athiests are in the minority, non-Christians are in the majority worldwide. When the American people tell Gallup that they believe in God, I take it as a sign of admission that they are living wrong, not as a sign that they are born-again--would that they were, StraightandNarrow.