Protestors demand WalMart put CHRIST back in Christmas

[TalkingDog]

The small city near where I live. Very red. Very Christian....well, nominally Christian.

WalMart basically brushes them off, suggesting they don't cow-tow to the Christians anymore since they've started opening stores in China. Maybe they'll celebrate the Chinese New Year instead....moneywhores.

http://www.statesville.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=SRL/MGArticle/SRL_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128768376848&path=%21frontpage

Of the huge crowd at Wal-Mart on Saturday morning, about 20 came not to shop but to protest.

“Wal-Mart has been eliminating any word of ‘Christmas,’ ” said demonstration organizer John Thomas. “It’s all ‘Happy holidays.’ ”

They stood near Applebee’s after being asked to move from the store’s parking lot, Thomas said.

[mucifer]

1. wow that is the STUPIDEST reason to protest walmart yet!

[rucky]

10. Does it really matter why they're protesting Wally World?

useful idiots, to put it in their vernacular.

[Hippo_Tron]

19. Agreed

[Eugene]

2. I am so torn on this.

While I don't like Wal-Mart, I'd love to see
them brush off these crazies.

Oh well. :popcorn:

[mucifer]

3. LOL, I agree!

[BlueJazz]

4. Damn..If this was my College Days, I'd go down to Wally-World....

..(at Night) and put up a GIGANTIC Sign that says "Merry Fucking Christmas"

[pstans]

7. That is hilarious

:rofl:

[jazzjunkysue]

15. Please don't let a few gray hairs stop you.

:popcorn:

[zippy890]

27. HAHAHA Sign that says 'Merry Fucking Christmas'

:rofl:

I'd be right there with you!!

thanks for the laugh

[wryter2000]

9. True

In a case like this, I sit back and watch the show. Pass the popcorn. :popcorn:

[baldguy]

5. To do that, they'd have to close down.

Not much CHRISTmas spirit in sending American jobs to third world countries, paying slave wages, and cozying up to totalitarian regimes so they can save a buck or two.

[pstans]

6. Tell Wal Mart to put Human back into Humanity

Treat their employees right, give them health care, a living wage, etc.

[melody]

8. Why don't non-Christians start protesting, too?

I'm so sick of these Christopath morons. Why don't we non-Christians start picketing churches? Especially, we should start picketing churches that try to influence politics. We can protest stores that insist upon telling their customers "Merry Christmas" when they don't celebrate it.

[GreenInNC]

11. Statesville

This does not surprise me. I am casting no stones because I live in Mint Hill, NC. Never heard of it I bet.

[nickyt]

24. No, but I've heard of "Lizard Lick"!! n/t

[TalkingDog]

26. Mint Hill is the Big City from where I stand....

Hi neighbor! Welcome to DU.

[GreenInNC]

31. precinct 235 (Lebanon Rd Elem) here

[msongs]

12. HEATHENS are the primary beneficiaries of all this shopping...

the chinese and other asians who are overwhemlingly non-christian and make most of the crap in WalMart.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Bigmack]

13. Really old-time religion.... Mithra!

I demand that all those Xian whackjobs put the Mithra back in Christmas!
- - - -
Have you ever wondered why December 25th was chosen to celebrate the birth of Christ?   If the accounts in the Bible are correct, the time of Jesus birth would have been closer to mid-summer, for this is when shepherds would have been "tending their flocks in the field" and the new lambs were born. Strange enough there is an ancient pagan religion, Mithraism, which dates back over 2,800 years that also celebrated the birth of their "savior" on that date.   Many elements in the story of Jesus' life and birth are either coincidental or borrowings 

Some Similarities Between Mithraism and Christianity  are:
Virgin birth
Twelve followers
Killing and resurrection
Miracles
Birthdate on December 25
Morality
Mankind's savior
Known as the Light of the world

http://www.vetssweatshop.net/dogma.htm

[jazzjunkysue]

18. I totally love this. Thank you. There were many cultures that practiced

sacrifice, and it was often the male consort of the reigning woman of the society. He would be chosen to sit by her side all year, knowing his head was already in the noose. In later times, the sacrifice was minimalized to blood letting, etc, but the whole thing about sacrifice was everywhere. The christians act like it was their idea, alone.

All my life I felt a little crazy because I was the only person I knew who didn't think the crap they spewed in churchschool could possibly be true. How nuts do you have to be to believe that a guy lived in the belly of a whale for 900 years? They lock people up for less.

[Mz Pip]

14. Where would Jesus shop??

All this frenetic shopping has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus.

Christmas has devolved into a very secular holiday and Walmart is on the bottom line of that.

THose who demand that Christ be put back in Christmas should be working in homeless shelters or convelescent hospitals not protesting Walmart.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[booksenkatz]

17. When the Christians put CHRIST back into Christian

then I'll pay attention.
:boring:

My mom's a pretty liberal Methodist, and I've told her that people like her have GOT to reclaim their religion from the nutbags. Or call themselves something else.

[BattyDem]

16. Wal-Mart is being protested for taking "Christ" out of "Christmas" by ...

the same people who took "Christ" out of "Christianity" :eyes:

[tsuki]

21. Good one.

[tlsmith1963]

20. Stupid Fundies

Not everyone in this country is a Christian. That is why people say "Happy Holidays". But the fundies just have to have everything *their* way, don't they? They can't accept the fact that they are no longer the only game in town.

Tammy

[lady raven]

22. How STUPID

I'm a Christian, I celebrate and LOVE Christmas (once I can block out all the commercialism), but come ON... That doesn't mean I want my beliefs forced on everyone else. These people need to get a grip!

[killbotfactory]

23. Why don't they protest that Walmart does most of it's business

with a country that has forces women to have abortions?

[MercutioATC]

25. It's the HOLIDAY season.

Assuming you start saying "Happy Holidays" in mid-November, here's a partial list of what you're covering:

November 15 Guru Nanak’s Birth (Sikh)
November 24 Guru Tegh Bahadur’s Martyrdom (Sikh)

December 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic)
December 25 Christmas (Roman Catholic, Protestant, Eastern and Greek
December 26 First Day of Hanukkah (Jewish)
December 26 - January 2 Kwanzaa

January 1 New Year’s Day
January 2 Eighth Day of Hanukkah (Jewish)
January 5 Guru Gobind Singh’s Birth (Sikh)
January 6 Feast of the Epiphany (Roman Catholic, Eastern, Greek and Russian Orthodox)
January 6 Christmas (Armenian)
January 6 Feast of the Epiphany (Christian)
January 7 Christmas Russian Orthodox
January 10 -13 Feast of Sacrifice (Eid of Adha) (Islamic)
January 14 Maha Shivaratri (Hindu)


Are the Wal-Mart greeters supposed to change their greeting every day?

[TalkingDog]

28. Winter Solstice or Yule Dec. 25 (Pagan)...and then there's Festivus

For the Rest of us.

[Bridget Burke]

29. Guess they didn't get the message!

Concerned Women for America said that WalMart had skirted the Boycott.
www.cwfa.org/articles/9461/CFI/freedom/

And the Catholic League reported that "WalMart Caves"
http://www.catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter%204/051111_boycott_ends.htm

Guess these fine rural folks are out of the loop!

[Loonman]

30. I fail to see what the big deal is

Some people have way too much time on their hands.