Sunday, December 04, 2005

SOMEONE finally says it!


Have you heard that the wingnuts, especially at FoxNews, are UP IN ARMS over the lack of references to "Chistmas" instead of simply "Happy Holidays" and the like? I never thought the day would come where religious leaders would be upset that the secular world wasn't properly exploiting the birth of our lord and saviour for retail profits!

Religious conservatives have a cause this holiday season: the commercialization of Christmas. They're for it.

The American Family Association is leading a boycott of Target for not using the words 'Merry Christmas' in its advertising. (Target denies it has an anti-Merry-Christmas policy.) The Catholic League boycotted Wal-Mart in part over the way its Web site treated searches for 'Christmas.' Bill O'Reilly, the Fox anchor who last year started a 'Christmas Under Siege' campaign, has a chart on his Web site of stores that use the phrase 'Happy Holidays,' along with a poll that asks, 'Will you shop at stores that do not say 'Merry Christmas'?'

And another thing...if you EVER hear someone bitch about the use of the word/contraction Xmas because it 'takes the Christ out of Chirstmas', you tell that person that "X" is one of the oldest known symbols representing Christ...and if they love the baby Jesus SO LITTLE that they can't be bothered to learn these things, then they should just be ashamed of themselves! ;)

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