a Festivus for the rest of us
Wal-mart has successfully ticked off the Catholic community. seems that not only is Christmas a pagan holiday, but the bitter employees who work for the company are discouraged from uttering the traditional 'merry Christmas' greeting. according to Wal-mart, 'happy holidays better encompasses the heathens and degenerates who regularly shop at our stores.' what i find surprising about all of this hullabaloo, however, is not that Wal-mart has yet again caused Sam Walton to flip in his grave but that the Catholic community has a problem with this turn of events. in past years when Wal-mart employees were mechanically spewing merry Christmases at customers who clawed and punched their way past their own grandmothers to grab the last Furby or ten dollar microwave, the Catholic community said nothing. turns out a commercialized Christmas is A ok. a commercialized holiday, however, is a reason to boycott.
posted by christine on Saturday, November 12, 2005
2 Comments:
Now even the purest of holidays FESTIVUS has become commercialized through half-witted books and even a Festivus Pole is one sale
now THAT is a travesty! it's one thing to commercialize a religious holiday like Christmas. why, it's even the American way, but now people have tainted the pure bitterness that is Festivus? what is the world coming to?!?!?!
Smartie Pants- nothing Wal-mart does surprises me anymore. the company that began as a real embodiment of the vision of a great man has become the latest butt of the American globalization joke. i guess Mr. Walton's descendants adhere to the motto that any publicity is good publicity.
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