Friday, November 11, 2005
Do They Know It's Christmastime? Well, We'll Make 'Em Know!
In China, there are Christians who cannot meet and pray. Were they to do so, they would likely be arrested by the Chinese government for being dissidents. People have been arrested in China for as little as selling a Bible. Which is why I believe that, were any of those Chinese Christians to come over here and hear William Donohoe bitch about how Christians are being discriminated because of "Happy Holidays", they would rip his fool ass in two.
I love how people like Donohue can't wrap their head around the fact that there are other faiths with other holidays in this country. He's a Christian, and therefore, everyone else should be one. And he will not be deterred by simple things such as evidence that Christmas already has a place in this country to which every other religious winter holiday aspires. Here's his response to an e-mail from Wal-Mart that points out that their stores are closed on Christmas:
"It's nice to know that Wal-Mart is closed on a federal holiday," explains Donohue, who says he's asking the leaders of 126 religious organizations spanning seven religious communities to boycott the retail giant.
Yes, Donohue. Wal-Mart is closed on Christmas, which is a federal holiday. Unlike Eid al-Fitr, the Winter Solsitce, or any of the days of Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. And he has the gall to say Christmas is threatened?
There are people in the developing world who won't have the money to celebrate the holiday of their choice. Maybe, if William Donohue was such a good Christian, he would focus on helping the poor with their respective holidays rather than forcing the well-off to celebrate Christmas.
I love how people like Donohue can't wrap their head around the fact that there are other faiths with other holidays in this country. He's a Christian, and therefore, everyone else should be one. And he will not be deterred by simple things such as evidence that Christmas already has a place in this country to which every other religious winter holiday aspires. Here's his response to an e-mail from Wal-Mart that points out that their stores are closed on Christmas:
"It's nice to know that Wal-Mart is closed on a federal holiday," explains Donohue, who says he's asking the leaders of 126 religious organizations spanning seven religious communities to boycott the retail giant.
Yes, Donohue. Wal-Mart is closed on Christmas, which is a federal holiday. Unlike Eid al-Fitr, the Winter Solsitce, or any of the days of Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. And he has the gall to say Christmas is threatened?
There are people in the developing world who won't have the money to celebrate the holiday of their choice. Maybe, if William Donohue was such a good Christian, he would focus on helping the poor with their respective holidays rather than forcing the well-off to celebrate Christmas.
