Wal Mart Will Say "Merry Christmas" This Year

[Booko]

Whaaat, where'd you get that? According to the CIA World Factbook, 84% are Shinto and Buddhist.

Yes, well in many circles Buddhists are considered atheists, especially the Mahayana Buddhists.

It depends on how you define things like "atheist" and "God."

It makes enumerating religious adherents very entertaining.

 

[Booko]

I can simultaneouusly lift seven fully inflated Acme Latex Love Dolls. Does that count?

I can lay a dozen eggs in a short space, and am an expert at hen-pecking.

In extreme circumstances, I've been known to give birth to kittens.

 

[lunamoth]

In extreme circumstances, I've been known to give birth to kittens.

 

[nutshell]

I blow things up, torture cute girls who don't know any better, then blow more things up.

 

[Ðanisty]

That might be what a person claims to be or it may be the tradition they follow, but when you get down to it and ask if they believe in God or a type of god - then the answer is usually "unsure" or I don't know.

Just because I have a standard Japanese funeral based on Buddhist tradition or a Shinto-based wedding does not make me Shinto or Buddhist.

In fact, most Japanese brides are opting for Western style weddings with a Christian priest, white dress, and all. Does that make them Christian now?

Interesting...just because people go to church and participate in other Christian rituals, it doesn't necessarily mean they are Christian either. So can we really say what the religious makeup of any country is?

Personally, I'm glad they've gone back to saying "Merry Christmas." It was always so fake so say something else...it was obvious they were going out of their way to be politically correct. I don't see how anyone can reasonably get offended by it anyway.

 

[evearael]

I don't really care if they say Merry Christmas or Happy Agnostica... I still won't shop there. I just get irritated with the people who demand a Merry Christmas but throw a hissy fit about Samhain, or vice versa.

 

[Draka]

I just don't understand why anything has to be said at all? I mean, I don't wish people a Happy Valentine's Day weeks before Febuary 14th. Why wish people a Merry Christmas or Happy Kwanzaa or any of that, for two months prior to the actual event? Who cares?

 

[doppelganger]

I just don't understand why anything has to be said at all? I mean, I don't wish people a Happy Valentine's Day weeks before Febuary 14th. Why wish people a Merry Christmas or Happy Kwanzaa or any of that, for two months prior to the actual event? Who cares?

To create and extend the sense of the Christmas shopping season and encourage spending while people are in the store.

 

[Draka]

To create and extend the sense of the Christmas shopping season and encourage spending while people are in the store.

You'd think that would be easily accomplished by the fact that Christmas decorations, dancing and singing Santas and Snowmen, and Christmas music are everywhere you look for over two months before Christmas anyway. :sarcastic I would personally hate to be a greeter at Wal-Mart...after so long of having to work beside that darn singing Santa I'd be too tempted to go back to the sporting goods section and pick up a ballbat or a shotgun.:areyoucra

 

[YamiB.]

I don't like it simply because of the fact that they are bowing to the idiots who were angry about them saying happy holidays.

 

[Doodlebug02]

I don't have a problem with them saying Merry Christmas to me because I am a Christian but not everyone who shops there is a Christian or even a Theist for that matter. Therefore, they should say Seasons Greetings or Happy Holidays instead.

 

[Radio Frequency X]

Just heard on the radio that Wal Mart will drop "Happy Holidays" this year and instead say "Merry Christmas" to its customers. Last year, it said "Happy Holidays" and was mercilessly attacked by bimbo talk show hosts for undermining Western Civilization.

Does this change matter?

No. It's just good business.

 

[sojourner]

What I don't like is that Christmas has been extended forward so far by consumerism. Christmas properly begins on Decedmber 24, on the eve of Christmas, and continues to the Epiphany on Jan. 6. The four weeks preceeding Christmas constitute a completely different liturgical season called "Advent." Maybe we should insist that Wal-Mart say "Happy Thanksgiving" around Thanksgiving, and "Happy Advent" during Advent. Personally, if I'm going to find something to be offended about, it's that the whiner-Christians snivel about being told "Merry Christmas" when it's not Christmas yet.

 

[NoahideHiker]

Persopnally I'm tired of everyone expecting so much from retailers. I believe in free markets and capitalism and I couldn't care less what a retailer says or supports or conducts it's business. All I care about is weather the salad is on sale and how good their imported beer isle is.

Keep on rockin' in the free world!

 

[Doodlebug02]

Persopnally I'm tired of everyone expecting so much from retailers. I believe in free markets and capitalism and I couldn't care less what a retailer says or supports or conducts it's business. All I care about is weather the salad is on sale and how good their imported beer isle is.

Keep on rockin' in the free world!

You make a good point. They should be able to say whatever they want to say.

 

[CanuckRasta]

Working as a cashier at a major Canadian retail store, the unspoken rule last year (my first Christmas there) was to say "Happy Holidays".

Usually I would say Happy Holidays, and if the customer caught on and replied with "Merry Christmas", I would reply "Merry Christmas". That way, no harm, no foul

I think, with my store at least, when the music has already started being played before Halloweeen, Christmas trees up, walls of Christmas lights, I think its a pretty tough sell on not saying "Merry Christmas".

I celebrate Christmas as a time to get together with family and friends. Its my absolute favourite time of the year.

That said as a Rastafarian, I have two spiritual Christmases a year.

One Love
Ras Marques B.

 

[Jaymes]

Perhaps retailers should just drop "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" and say "Happy Consumerism Day"? If you're out shopping at their stores, that's what it amounts to.

 

[doppelganger]

Perhaps retailers should just drop "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" and say "Happy Consumerism Day"? If you're out shopping at their stores, that's what it amounts to.

But that would spoil the illusion.

 

[Sunstone]

Perhaps retailers should just drop "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" and say "Happy Consumerism Day"? If you're out shopping at their stores, that's what it amounts to.

How about "Happy Potlatch"?

 

[doppelganger]

How about "Happy Potlatch"?

Or "Joyous Usury"