A Meaningless Bland Bowl of Holiday Mush
An interesting letter to the editor in a recent Washington Times issue:
All the Grinches and Scrooges are really working overtime. They are slowly taking all the joy out of Christmas. Their holiday greetings and friendship trees and year-end parties are a big bore. Ten years from now, some reporter will ask a little child standing in front of a bare pole with white lights, "What are you celebrating?" And her answer will be, "I don't know. I guess it's when I get stuff."
Gone will be Christmas carols and Christmas cards and beautiful Nativity scenes and hundreds of years of tradition. Christmas will cease to be majestic and full of wonder. It will be a meaningless bland bowl of holiday mush. So to all you retailers who want to keep Christmas out of your holidays, I have one thing to say. Since Christmas is gone, I won't be doing any Christmas shopping. Why bother? I think I'll just go to church this year; where Christmas is still alive and well.
-Anna Miller
Camus, Washington
posted by Crystal Paine at 4:47 PM
5 Comments:
Agreed. I got a card this year that said something to the effect of: "May the peace and tranquility of this festive season be with you."
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What a ridiculous thing! I wonder when people will catch on that without Jesus...everything is empty and boring.
Thankfully, it doesn't take the retailers,etc. to celebrate the birth of Christ. I refuse to ignore the meaning and purpose of Christmas. I believe that the more the commercial world tries to push out Christ, the more He will be seen. Those who hate Christ try to convince those who love Him that we are a dying breed....we are not! There are more like us, than them...but too many are silent.
Let's pray they get louder.
I agree with Sommer. I don't understand the fuss over retailers' saying "happy holidays" at all. It may be a bit bland but it makes good business sense given that not all customers (or employees) celebrate Christmas. There is nothing stopping churches and families from honoring Christ to the fullest extend during Christmas or any other time.
I always believed that saying happy holidays was said to include the new year.
Walmart, where I work had a meeting about it. It was agreed that it was okay to say Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Chanauka, Happy Three Kings Day, or Happy Holidays.
I wish people a Merry Christmas. If they wish some other holiday first, Kwanzaa or Chanauka or what have you then I just wish them the same back.
It's the focus on gifts, and Santa, and commercial flurry that has sapped the meaning of the season, not the words we use to acknowledge it. When it's about joy and anticipation, of things immaterial rather than material, then nobody will need to feel so defensive about the observances of anybody else...
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