Is this becasue the postal worker automaticaly thought that i was against religion? i would have like a christian one, but it turns out they dont have any. I'm not racist, or religionist, or whatever hating people who celebrated kwanza is called, but I think it's unfair for them to have a stamp, and I dont. The question: Why do you think the united states post office carries kwanza stamps, and not christian ones?
2006-12-08 18:57:43 · 13 answers · asked by Your hero until you meet Jesus 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lady Madonna is not a christian icon, she's a catholic icon. Christianity does not worship idols like this.
2006-12-08 19:04:36 · update #1
They carry christian ones and they SOLD OUT. Don't be all persecuted about it. Move on.
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2006-12-08 18:59:52 · answer #1 · answered by Laptop Jesus 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Postal Service prints a variety of stamps so people can have choices. The madonna and child stamps are supposed to be for all Christians, not just Catholics - Protestants think Mary was Jesus's mother, and since they are celebrating a birth, the mother is definitely involved!
Actually the secular Christmas stamps (snowflakes this year) usually outsell the religious ones by a wide margin - something like 5 to 1.
Your post office should also have Hannukah stamps and stamps with motorcycles, Disney characters, quilts, baseball players, superheroes, etc., plus Judy Garland and Ronald Reagan and the Purple Heart. Surely there is some stamp at the post office you'd really like - ask what "commemoratives" they have.
2006-12-10 12:54:59 · answer #2 · answered by Maple 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do carry them. They just ran out. When I went today, the choices were supposed to be Christian/Catholic (virgin mary), Kwanza, Snowflake, something in Arabic, and a few others from major religions. They just gave me the snowflake generically without asking or assuming anything - which is what I wanted anyway.
Edit: Oh, are you saying the the virgin has nothing to do with your religion? I'm sorry, I must have missed something. It had jesus on it - what, do you want one per denomination? Wouldn't that make it about 30,000 different stamps?
2006-12-08 19:03:27 · answer #3 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Christian Stamps are the most popular and so its not surprising that they were out. If you local post office is out of the stamps you like, then you can order by phone.
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2006-12-08 19:05:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I asked for the stamp that had Mary and the Christ child on it.
But you are right ,I would love a Christian stamp.
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2006-12-08 19:01:18 · answer #5 · answered by funnana 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At stamps.com you can print stamps with whatever you want on them! I'd suggest paying a visit, and CHRIST IT UP!
Heaven forbid Christians not be fairly represented in the postal service fee mechanism.
2006-12-08 19:03:05 · answer #6 · answered by Jacob S 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Awww, you are not giving everybody postage stamps again for Christmas this year are you? You are such a Scrooge!
2006-12-08 19:05:06 · answer #7 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they've always had christmas stamps. Yeah, this year they have a brown Madonna stamp.
2006-12-08 19:01:59 · answer #8 · answered by Middle Man 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ill cry with you when you no longer have a national holiday in direct defiance of the freedoms your country was founded on.
oh yea, and it's a secular holiday, as Kwanzaa has nothing to do with religion.
2006-12-08 19:02:24 · answer #9 · answered by PandaMan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's cause you suck as an individual in society and have nothing better to worry about. Get a life.
2006-12-08 19:02:04 · answer #10 · answered by Nikki W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋