No Xmas Sales — We're Christian
With the sounds of the cannons of the War on Xmas# booming in the background, Pat Boone had this bit of praise* for Wal*Mart:
This year, instead of bowing and kowtowing to militant atheist and super liberal "political correctness," so-called, I'm thrilled to see that Wal-Mart has banished "the Grinch" that threatened to steal Christmas, and will be advertising Christmas sales and playing Christmas music – and not conforming to the total "Holiday" imagery and advertising of other milk-toast wimp marketers.
Is anyone else confused, or is it just I?
Perhaps it's a false recovered memory, but I'm certain that it was only a few years back that major retailers (like, say, Wal*Mart) were excoriated by Righteous Xian Soldiers for usurping the true meaning of Xmas (the wee bambino) and turning it into some horrible, secular, commercial festival in which the winner was the one who spent the most on gifts at finer stores everywhere.
And now what do we have? A leading white-shod Xian praising a major retailer (the major retailer) for — wait for it! — actually using the C-word in its holiday-sales advertising! Praise the Lord, they've actually put the commercialism back into Xmas!
Do we live in interesting times, or what?
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# I know, it's actually the "War on C*****mas" — I'm just trying to stick to my resolution to use "Xmas" for maximum tactical benefit as part of my effort in the secular-atheist War on you-know-what.
* I read this quotation at Pam's House Blend ("Pat Boone on Sam Walton"). She gives the link to the WorldNetDaily source; I really prefer not to get my links all messy with that wacko fringe religious paranoia stuff.
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on Tuesday, 21 November 2006 at 18.21
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Right you are. There was great indignant harrumphing and righteous posturing throughout the land back in the 1980s and '90s. It was all about how Christmas (sorry, but Xian reads like it's supposed to be a Chinese province) had been completely taken over by crass commercialism. Children of all ages, it was said, were being encouraged to give in completely to the I Wanna's.
The problem with that religious-spirited complaint is that it runs head first into one of the Christian right's fundamental beliefs: Believers have not only a right but a sacred duty to get rich for God and country.
As has been observed in some quarters, rich ain't filthy as long as those who hit the big time remember to make big and regular contributions to Christian right churches and causes.