holidays and consistency
Just saw a commercial for HEB. Something about a "holiday meal." I wonder how many evangelicals will get up in arms about this company, owned by a prominent evangelical, and its supposed refusal to speak the name "Christmas."
(Of course, "holiday" might very well refer to Thanksgiving as well, because this is the beginning of November. Yeeeesh.)
Nonetheless, you always hear from the war-on-Christmas crowd how horrible it is when people seemingly refuse to even speak the name of a Christian holiday, and instead just say "holidays," or — even more egregiously — "Winter Festival."
Replacing a time-honored historical name with some insipid seasonal blandness does seem like the sort of politically-correct nonsense you'd expect from the left, ripe for lambasting.
But I'm just now thinking of another Christian holiday, called by its Christian name and celebrated by Christians for centuries. All Hallow's Eve. Halloween. It's not an occult holiday; it's a Christian one. Except there's one group of people, mainly evangelicals, who flatly refuse to participate in it, as if dressing up as a pirate and getting candy from the next-door neighbor is some sort of pagan practice (as opposed to, say, putting a decorated tree in your living room or painting eggs). And the name they use instead of its Christian name?
Fall Festival.
You can't make this stuff up.
(Of course, "holiday" might very well refer to Thanksgiving as well, because this is the beginning of November. Yeeeesh.)
Nonetheless, you always hear from the war-on-Christmas crowd how horrible it is when people seemingly refuse to even speak the name of a Christian holiday, and instead just say "holidays," or — even more egregiously — "Winter Festival."
Replacing a time-honored historical name with some insipid seasonal blandness does seem like the sort of politically-correct nonsense you'd expect from the left, ripe for lambasting.
But I'm just now thinking of another Christian holiday, called by its Christian name and celebrated by Christians for centuries. All Hallow's Eve. Halloween. It's not an occult holiday; it's a Christian one. Except there's one group of people, mainly evangelicals, who flatly refuse to participate in it, as if dressing up as a pirate and getting candy from the next-door neighbor is some sort of pagan practice (as opposed to, say, putting a decorated tree in your living room or painting eggs). And the name they use instead of its Christian name?
Fall Festival.
You can't make this stuff up.
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