Whether or not you are a Christian, don't you think that reatilers who refuse to use "Christmas" in their

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advertising are exhibiting hypocrisy and cowardice?

Answer 1

Ah, nope.
They are being extremely polite and conscience.
They are showing that they are intelligent in the ways of the world and business.
They are being unprejudiced and in fact, doing exactly what a person of the Christian faith should be doing... loving their neighbors as they love themselves.

Should we ignore the people of this country below that are not Christian?
Or should we simply force Christianity down their throats like barbarians?

Judaism
Muslim/Islamic
Sikhism
Hinduism
Buddhist
Chinese traditional religion
African Traditional & Diasporic
Juche
Shinto:
Cao Dai
Zoroastrianism
Tenrikyo:
Rastafarianism

That's a lot of people, my friend.
Or how about the American Christians that find our celebration of "Christmas" activities revolting?

U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
Old Order Amish Church
Mennonite Church USA
Unitarian Universalist

This is not a one religion world, this is not a one religion country, and businesses are not a one religion business either.
How anyone could even suggest that a business goes out of it's way to openly insult a group of their employees' religion by forcing theirs on them is simply unacceptable.

Answer 2

first of all Rome replaced right into a us of a that compelled people to affix it. The emperors also proclaimed themselves to be GOD. So thinking those 2 information it really is why they did not serve. Christians were killed and persecuted by Rome for decades that replaced into likely a ingredient too. Christians received't serve in a warfare the position the military they'll connect is going out and forces people to placed as a lot as their will. no matter if that is how ever to look after a us of a which could chosen to strive against. A christian may connect the U. S. forces because the U. S. forces do not flow round forceing people to affix them nor do they automatically kill people for no reason. warfare now and again won't be able to be prevented. Ecc 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of warfare, and a time of peace.

Answer 3

First, it isn't Thanksgiving yet, so it's too soon for anyone to be talking Christmas.

Second, not everyone is Christian. Since there are a lot of people who aren't, and their money is as green as Christian's money, stores realize it's against their best interest to alienate many of the people who want to give them money.

No one is telling anyone NOT to celebrate Christmas (least of all retailers, since that's most of their year's income). It's just that many people have realized (finally) that not everyone celebrates that particular holiday, and have stopped excluding those people by assuming everyone is Christian.

Retailers are in business to make money. They make more money by treating all customers with respect -- not just some or most of them.

Is this really such a hard concept to understand?

BTW, even for Christians, the upcoming season is a multi-holiday season, so Happy Holidays, and Season's Greetings (which are NOT new coinages but have been around longer than I have) are perfectly reasonable and even more accurate than pretending there's only one holiday coming up.

Answer 4

No.

Listen my dear, retailers do what they do to make money.

There may be a very few company/corporation owners who occasionally make decisions based on political or religious convictions, but it's very rare.

It's about the bottom line, and any PR that they put out to convince you otherwise is a bunch of hooey. They regularly manipulate us to get us to buy things from them. If there are any chain retailers who are saying that there is some sort of religious or social reason for the "Merry Christmas" thing, they are lying to you in order to pump up a sense of religious righteousness and outage over this *extremely stupid* issue in order to get you to spend your holiday money with them as opposed to their competitors.



BTW, how could it be considered hypocrisy and/or cowardice to be inclusive rather than exclusive?

Further, the word "holiday" is from "holy day" (thus holidays = holy days), and in case you're not aware of it, many Christians celebrate more than one holy day at that time of year:

http://home.earthlink.net/~paulrack/id136.html

Obviouly this has worked with you, this manipulation of your relgious feeling for crassly commercial reasons.

Too bad.

Answer 5

No. They are acknowledging the fact that the Christianized Christmas is not the only winter holiday that people in this country celebrate.

But unfortunately a number of people feel that if you are not Christian then you need to ship out to another country if you aren't willing to convert.

Answer 6

I think it's stupid that for years Christians have been complaining about how Xmas has become so commercialized and how wrong it is to use it as a marketing ploy, then when stores STOP using Christmas in a commercial context the very same Christians complain that stores are "taking the Christ out of Xmas".

Make up your minds, already!

Answer 7

No..they are exhibiting the fact that there are other holidays.

I agree with Magpie 100%. Christians complain about how commercialized the holiday has gotten and then throw a fit because stores are not making it commercial enough.

Answer 8

The US has a long tradition of saying Christmas. Part of our history. If we tried to list Everything to keep Everyone happy, the advertising should read "Happy Whatever". Always thought they should list as "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays" to cover.

Answer 9

No, just good business sense. Not everyone celebrates Christmas, and may be reluctant to buy at a store that has its merchandise marked as "Christmas." And there are those who would object to taking a sacred holiday and commercializing it.

Answer 10

If they don't display Xmas in order to appease their neighbors, then yes they are hypocrite and coward. But if the reason is religious or consciencious, then fortunately this is the land of freedom.