Hatchet Job
OK, I'm more and more convinced that Tyler Hahn is satire - no one could actually be this dumb:
First things first - there is no War on Christmas, unless you count the one being waged inside Bill O'Reilly's head. Second, Wal-Mart's communist? Um kay.
Wal-Mart is, in fact, one of the most purely capitalistic institutions on the planet, known for sacrificing its own employee's well-being for the sake of profit (though maybe Wal-Mart's negligence is actually a nod to the need for a welfare state, as that's what underpaid employees must rely upon for healthcare?) No, Sam's super-conglomerate-club is not communist. Godless, perhaps, but that's different. That it's so capitalist actually leads to the conclusion that "happy holidays" is probably the most profitable way for Wal-Mart to approach the winter shopping season. If "Merry Christmas" made more money, they'd use it.
I'll spare you a thorough fisking of Hahn's latest atrocity, and leave you with this thought:
Serious Christians ought to be thankful that the materialist binge that is holiday shopping is being divorced rhetorically from the holiday celebrating the birth of Christ, as the cognitive dissonance this has caused has certainly led to a lot of misunderstanding of the teachings of Christ. Anyone who cares about christianity should see the commercialization of its second most important holiday as having been a bad thing, and the secularization of shopping as, conversely, a good thing.
The real threat to Christmas comes from those who want to confuse it with buying stuff.
... can't resist correcting Hahn on one more bit:
This claim has been dealt with:
Is Hahn a moron, ideologue or work of satire? Hard to tell.
As we enter into the Christmas season, so do we again inevitably enter into our annual battle against the godless secular left. Each and every Christmas season, the stories of anti-Christmas (more broadly, anti-Christian) attacks grow more absurd.
In a widely underreported debacle, Wal-Mart's true colors (primarily Communist Red), have begun to show through.
First things first - there is no War on Christmas, unless you count the one being waged inside Bill O'Reilly's head. Second, Wal-Mart's communist? Um kay.
Wal-Mart is, in fact, one of the most purely capitalistic institutions on the planet, known for sacrificing its own employee's well-being for the sake of profit (though maybe Wal-Mart's negligence is actually a nod to the need for a welfare state, as that's what underpaid employees must rely upon for healthcare?) No, Sam's super-conglomerate-club is not communist. Godless, perhaps, but that's different. That it's so capitalist actually leads to the conclusion that "happy holidays" is probably the most profitable way for Wal-Mart to approach the winter shopping season. If "Merry Christmas" made more money, they'd use it.
I'll spare you a thorough fisking of Hahn's latest atrocity, and leave you with this thought:
Serious Christians ought to be thankful that the materialist binge that is holiday shopping is being divorced rhetorically from the holiday celebrating the birth of Christ, as the cognitive dissonance this has caused has certainly led to a lot of misunderstanding of the teachings of Christ. Anyone who cares about christianity should see the commercialization of its second most important holiday as having been a bad thing, and the secularization of shopping as, conversely, a good thing.
The real threat to Christmas comes from those who want to confuse it with buying stuff.
... can't resist correcting Hahn on one more bit:
Even the United States Postal Service, which has for years produced stamps with beautiful and historic paintings of Madonna and Child, this year halted production of "religious stamps" in favor of pictures of "holiday cookies."
This claim has been dealt with:
"It's absolutely not true," said Diana Svoboda, spokeswoman for the Pittsburgh district. Next year's printing will include a new Madonna and the price stamped over her left shoulder will explain why a new one wasn't printed this year: Rates are going up to 39 cents per letter Jan. 8.
Is Hahn a moron, ideologue or work of satire? Hard to tell.
posted by onlooker at 2:12 AM
1 Comments:
I vote moron. He hasn't said much intelligent all year.
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