Merry Christmas...AND Happy Holidays!!!
On a Christian radio station here locally where I live, a mall had a commercial that said in sing-song, and I quote: "Merry Christmas, and happy holidays." Talk about wanting to have your cake and eat it too!
Actually, though, this is probably one of the better scenarios. It would be impractical--to say the least--and perhaps even insincere, for a commercial to say "Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, and Happy whatever-else-you-might-celebrate." And, on the other hand, I think you all already know how I feel about the total exclusion and demoting of Christmas through the use of "happy holidays" and "season's greetings" as "one size fits all" terms.
It's interesting, isn't it, to see how a business will try to position itself for success? This mall is obviously trying to make all their demographics happy. They probably will succeed with such methods, as well, except, of course, making the most "tolerant," "relativistic," and--frankly--extremist secularists happy.
~Kingdom Advancer
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7 comments:
Ask away, Jonathan. I hope I can answer them satisfactorily.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot: the invite has been sent.
Question: What happens to this blog after Christmas?
We keep going for the next Christmas.
We have more time that way!
Lanna:)
We can broaden it, if you want, KA. Right now it's about taking Christ out of Christmas, and after Christmas it can be about taking Christ out of American society, or something like that.
That's exactly what I was thinking, Austin. I'm just wondering whether we'd change the name, and, if so, what we'd change it to. Would we give it a new URL, as well?
I guess we'll just cross that bridge when we come to it.
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