Silent night, violent night.

Well,
I am sitting here with a scratchy voice after a late night meeting. I was able to spend time with my folks, which is a treat. My mom always keeps Dove Bars stocked - which I dig.

One thing that I could blog about, that is way too easy and tired, is the constant drone about whether or not we can call this season "Christmas" or whether or not we can have "Christmas songs" or "Christmas trees" instead of "Festive" songs, seasons or trees... I find getting up in arms about this is pointless and not worth our time. What do you think?

If you don't think... what do you eat?
sd

Comments

Anonymous said…
I find that prayer works much better since it's the enemies strategy to get us angry and distracted. I do believe we should stand for what we believe and support the stores and businesses that keep Christ's name in their advertising.
Bill Oreily has a good article on it.
11:33 PM
Kevin Stinehart said…
I whole-heartedly agree Steve. It is not the darkness' responsibility to be less dark. It is our job to be more light. It is not WalMart's (a store that many Christians are boycotting this season because of this issue) responsibility to tell people about Christmas and Jesus. It is ours. What they are doing is including everyone, Christians, Jews, Muslims etc. by saying things like "Seasons Greetings." They're not saying, "Screw you Christians but everyone else is cool." They're secular corporations who are in the business of selling merchandise to all consumers. Not just Christians. They should try to include all holidays, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Years, Hanukkah etc. We shouldn't force our religion down their throats and they shouldn't on us. They're not saying, "Happy Holidays, except for Christmas. Screw you Christians!" They're being accepting and inclusive not exclusive like the boycotting Christians. The bottom line is this is such a silly topic to make a cause out of. It is not eternal. God will not care if we fought to keep the word Christmas at WalMart when we were alive. He will care about if we loved the "least of these" and served and gave money to those in need. We need to stop listening to Bill Oreily, or Pat Robertson's rants about what Jesus wants us to do and read the word and see what God really values. Sorry, you struck a nerve in me Steve. Thanks for the prompt. :)
12:25 AM
Anonymous said…
I eat whatever Sam Walton chooses.

Walmart is evil, and only "Evil-doers" shop there!!

Convert or die! All you Muslim, Jew, Pagan scum!! When will you understand that your belief's are false and that you will, one day soon, suffer for your folly in a, torturous, lake of fire

Evil-doers are the silliest people...
;-)
9:06 AM
Kevin Stinehart said…
WalMart is evil actually. But not because they don't say "Christmas." I watched a PBS documentary about it a while ago and they basically bully the companies whose products they sell. Essentially they say, "We need your product to sell at (we'll say) 2.42 a unit" and if you can't lower the price to that we'll nix you from our store. So the company is forced to have kids in India work for 4 cents an hour because it's cheap labor so they can stay at WalMart. It's really sad. But they're WalMart so they get to call the shots. Sadly the golden rule is still true, "Whoever has the gold makes the rules." So go ahead and boycott WalMart but do it because of these poor kids in sweatshops not because they say, "Happy Holidays."
10:47 AM
Deur said…
I shop at Walmart because it drives my friends crazy and I get more food for the money. :)
1:44 PM
Kevin Stinehart said…
Sinner ;)
2:21 PM
Doug Witte said…
what are the chances we could hit up the idle hour (or some other fine dining establisment) again sometime soon?
10:24 PM
Dave Deur said…
I'm thinking that if they're (Walmart) willing to make money off a Christian holiday, they should at bare minimum acknowledge the name of the holiday. However, there's nothing stopping me from screaming Joy to the World and Merry Christmas in the local Walmart, and watch as people bow in worship.

This just goes to show that it rubs me the wrong way.
10:33 PM
Anonymous said…
What a strange topic for people to be so sensative about...

I don't get it. New Year's is a holiday and Christmas is a holiday. There can be no argument about this right? So if you have two holidays and you wish to say to someone be happy at both what would you say?

Now I understand you could say Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, but wouldn't it be much easier and perfectly acceptable to say "Happy Holidays!"

Come on people... Don't read something that's not there into every little thing that is said or done. Don't you have something better you could be doing?
6:50 AM
Doug Witte said…
I was born on Christmas day, and my mom's name is Mary. I think that pretty much makes me an authority on Christmas. I don't care if walmart doesn't use the word. It's only one day out of the year anyways. I'm sure we could find better ways to show Christ's love than to make walmart recognize the day.
5:32 PM
Anonymous said…
The truth is that all of the customs of Christmas pre-date the birth of Jesus Christ, and a study of this would reveal that
Christmas in our day is a collection of traditions and practices taken from many cultures and nations.

The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god.

This was done long before the birth of Jesus.

It was noted by the pre-Christian Romans and other pagans, that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed that the sun god died.
5:17 PM
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