It has already started only it's more obnoxious than ever and we haven't even gotten to sit down at the Thanksgiving dinner. Capitalism at its finest. It's the imaginary War on Christmas cam-paign,"a pretend persecution complex that is built upon lie after lie of supposedly angry companies and a mythical organized disdain for Christmas that would make even the Grinch blush." Even for folks like me that live in the back of End of the Rainbow Valley know that there is no war on this Christian holiday except for people like evangelist Joshua Feuerstein who insists that Starbucks has "removed" the holiday off of their disposable coffee cup.
Seriously, when you see red and green don't you think of the holiday of Christmas?/ Does a coffee cup provoke the true meaning of Christmas and why it's being celebrated? Do we remember we live in a pluralistic society where more than one religion celebrates holidays during the month of December?
Well, we can be certain that FaceBook will be inundated with the fear of Christmas being removed. Maybe it's time we practice what we preach and not let what's important religiously to us become so commercialized. Perhaps instead of war, we could work on peace.
* BTW I am happy ecologically Starbucks has 'disposable' cups.
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