Focus on the Family Playing Santa… to Retailers

Ya know those idiots who seem to want to focus on what your family is doing wrong? They’re at it again.

They’ve come up with a “naughty or nice” list concerning the language that retailers use in their holiday advertisements. If a company uses “Merry Christmas” they are said to be “Christmas-friendly” retailers. If they use “Happy Holidays” then they are deemed “Christmas-offensive”, those who use both phrases are said to be “Christmas-negligent.”

This is one of the dumber things I’ve heard, a group of people who are supposedly followers of Jesus are going to selectively procure their materialism by standards of the faith? Ah yes, I vividly remember sitting in Sunday School to hear the parable of where Jesus wanted to buy his ipod from. Remember how Peter was all like “My lord, let’s go to Best Buy” and Jesus said “Nay naïve! Verily I say unto thee that he who doth not use ‘Christmas’ in their holiday advertisements shall never know the glories of Heaven.”

FoF went so far as to send out letters that basically stated we could boycott you if you don’t change your wording. Gap’s response? “So”, I’m paraphrasing of course.

I just hate this type of stuff. One, it doesn’t even fit your own meaning of Christmas, good will towards men and what not. Second, why do the xtians insist on acting like Christmas is their holiday? Oh right, because they teach their kids lies about the holiday and they just keep getting passed down.

To any Christians reading this, #1) points for bravery, well done, and #2) do you not find it odd that the Pagans (gasp!) had their biggest holidays in late December and somewhere around March / April. Then the Christians drove out the heathen pagans so that they could make their holidays most important which just so happen to also be in late December and around March / April? Look it up!