by Stanley Anderson » November 15th, 2007, 4:28 pm
I could almost be for the stores that don't use the word Christmas, simply because it avoids having the word and the idea be associated with a way to get us to buy something we don't need. But of course I realize that is the last thing on their minds in a decision not to use the word -- it is a PC effort pure and simple. But even then, only because PC sells (unless well-intentioned, but probably misguided boycotts interfere with the consensus).
Myself, I can't help thinking, rather condescendingly I have to admit, "those poor non-Christians -- their constitutions are so weak and fragile that we daren't upset their delicate convictions and easily excited emotions by confronting them with that Very Ferocious and Threatening word 'Christmas' very many times in December or they might very well become downcast and feel put-upon, and we wouldn't want to subject them to that sort of torture would we?"
Do you suppose it would be ok for me as a Chri...er, I mean, one of those religious types, to purchase one of those nine-branched candle holders that some of those other religious types use around this time of year? Maybe I could call it a "seasonal multi-flame lighting unit". They look pretty cool, and might be pretty decorative. Buuut...I don't know -- someone might see it and be offended. Better not risk it, I guess. Let the easily-offended ones live in their own narrow, comfortable view of a world that doesn't confront them with ideas foreign to that media-dictated, generic, PC, grey, bland world, I say.
Whew! Sorry about that. I had to get an oversupply of sarcasm washed out of my system before Advent starts:-),
--Stanley
…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.