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I love Christmas and rejoicing at the birth of Christ our Saviour and did once live in a Christian country where even non-believers joined in with our great Christian traditions but now the country is apparently 'multi-cultural' and other faiths are given at least equal weight which has meant Christmas and Christianity have been down graded. You see it in advertising which just shows Christmas as a time for eating and drinking and giving presents with NO mention of the birth of Christ. Even the word Christmas is often 'removed' as I guess the advertisers believe the first six letters cause offence to other faiths. Tesco's -a big UK supermarket - is selling an "Evergreen tree' (made from plastic so I guess it would be 'evergreen' ) rather than a Christmas tree. Other supermarkets sell Winter cakes rather than Christmas cakes and refer to 'happy Holidays' and 'Winter Festivals' - rather then Christmas holidays and Christmas markets and Festivals. Are things as bad as this in America and other countries? Sorry for the rant but this really annoys me!!!!:mad:
 
Things are very commercial here in the US, and things are usually X-Mass or Happy Holiday's or some such nonsense. Things pertaining the the birth of Jesus are not very marketable in Walmart or Target I guess.
 
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I love Christmas and rejoicing at the birth of Christ our Saviour and did once live in a Christian country where even non-believers joined in with our great Christian traditions but now the country is apparently 'multi-cultural' and other faiths are given at least equal weight which has meant Christmas and Christianity have been down graded. You see it in advertising which just shows Christmas as a time for eating and drinking and giving presents with NO mention of the birth of Christ. Even the word Christmas is often 'removed' as I guess the advertisers believe the first six letters cause offence to other faiths. Tesco's -a big UK supermarket - is selling an "Evergreen tree' (made from plastic so I guess it would be 'evergreen' ) rather than a Christmas tree. Other supermarkets sell Winter cakes rather than Christmas cakes and refer to 'happy Holidays' and 'Winter Festivals' - rather then Christmas holidays and Christmas markets and Festivals. Are things as bad as this in America and other countries? Sorry for the rant but this really annoys me!!!!:mad:
It is a problem as old as time. Well maybe not that old, but certainly I have seen it for all of my 47 years. For as long as I have been alive people have been complaining about the commercialization of christmas.

On the other hand people certainly are still showing up in the store in many multiples of droves for the sales. So as long as people keep buying stuff the stores are going to keep commercializing the crap out of it.

"Vote with your wallet." Every year I keep getting out voted.
 
In the meantime here's one funny video about the corporate takeover of the North pole.

 
It is a problem as old as time. Well maybe not that old, but certainly I have seen it for all of my 47 years. For as long as I have been alive people have been complaining about the commercialization of christmas.

On the other hand people certainly are still showing up in the store in many multiples of droves for the sales. So as long as people keep buying stuff the stores are going to keep commercializing the crap out of it.

"Vote with your wallet." Every year I keep getting out voted.
Maybe you need a bigger wallet. :)
 
I love Christmas and rejoicing at the birth of Christ our Saviour and did once live in a Christian country where even non-believers joined in with our great Christian traditions but now the country is apparently 'multi-cultural' and other faiths are given at least equal weight which has meant Christmas and Christianity have been down graded. You see it in advertising which just shows Christmas as a time for eating and drinking and giving presents with NO mention of the birth of Christ. Even the word Christmas is often 'removed' as I guess the advertisers believe the first six letters cause offence to other faiths. Tesco's -a big UK supermarket - is selling an "Evergreen tree' (made from plastic so I guess it would be 'evergreen' ) rather than a Christmas tree. Other supermarkets sell Winter cakes rather than Christmas cakes and refer to 'happy Holidays' and 'Winter Festivals' - rather then Christmas holidays and Christmas markets and Festivals. Are things as bad as this in America and other countries? Sorry for the rant but this really annoys me!!!!:mad:
Yes, we need to put "Christ" back into Christmas. The problem starts with the church. We have allowed Satan to infiltrate our societies, flooding us with people hostile to Christ. I met someone in the UK who works to help Muslim immigrants settle into the country. Some of those migrants would cheerfully cut off his head if he said one negative word about the unholy book and their supposed prophet.

The church is supposed to be salt and light. We are neither. I believe this to be the great apostasy that Jesus warned us would come. We have His authority and power. What have we done with it? I think the evidence is obvious from the circumstances. America has elected a Muslim mayor. Islam, in spite of its evil ways, has taken root in the West in a way that I never imagined possible.

My late mentor and friend warned of this in the 1970's. He saw Islam like a black mist rising out of the ground and covering the earth.

Some say that Islam is harmless. Those living under the Iranian regime or in any Muslim majority country would disagree. Some say that a democracy would never vote for Sharia law. Except Muslims out breed everyone. Eventually, they will be the majority, for example, in the UK. It will be easy to amend the law to enforce Sharia. It may take many more years. Hopefully, Jesus will return and put an end to the rot. Alternatively, a Muslim controlled country will have access to a modern, if small, military and nuclear weapons. What could possibly go wrong.
 
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Corporations do not care and will do anything to make money.

It goes with the territory that they are greedy and self exalting and want power and control.

Operating as a small nation competing with each other and only care about themselves.

Everything they do is to exalt themselves and money is one way they do it.

They use money to exalt themselves as better.

But if they were the only person on earth they would not care about money for who would they exalt themselves above.

If they do give money away they do it because they want people to say you are a nice person to exalt themselves.

But they give very little away because they love money.

They care nothing about people but only themselves.

America is very bad at greed, and self exaltation.

Which I do not understand the level of greed they have that they cannot get enough.

Americans fight, and belittle each other, and exalt themselves above each other, more than any other nation on earth.

And it is worse than people realize which a lot of the hateful comments are deleted.

Their husbands and wives, men and women, parents and children, teachers and students, and politicians, cannot get along.

And in general all around rooten tooten fighting wherever they can fight loving to exalt themselves.

They are the most selfish, greedy, stingiest, arrogant, self exalting, and me me me, out of all the nations.

The business people's attitude is they can never have enough finding excuses to raise prices so they can have more money that they crave oh so much.

If they are walking down the sidewalk and they a bum bending down to pick up a dime they will "bum rush" the person and get the dime and fondle it with joy and delight.

They are like a homeless person that has not eaten in 5 days and they come across a garbage can and are frantically searching through it for something to eat.

Perhaps a ketchup packet, half eaten donut, a quarter cup of a drink, a napkin with chicken residue on it from a wiping of the mouth, and such miniscule things of food.

The business people are frantically searching for money as if they are starving.

And that is the general attitude in America which they learn from an early age.

The way America operates in its greedy and self exalting behavior it made the youth/ young adults feel insecure, and have low self esteem because they do not feel important, and a nobody in society.

Which they desperately want to exalt their fragile ego hence the birth of the Woke movement.

Which they are stepping out of the bounds of reality to exalt themselves and go against mainstream society.

They want to identify with what gender they want and have whatever pronoun they want to confirm their attitude they can be whatever they want and live how they want so back off.

They like the belief they can be whatever they want to be and it makes them feel special.

They are in competition with each other to be more unique than the others because it makes them feel special turning the transgender scene in a fashion show.

Also because how America behaves it is the reason for the so called Karens as they lash out at a society that they believe does not care about their feelings and want to belittle her like they do other people.

But people do not want to find out the psychological reason why they act that way but they want to laugh, call her crazy, and belittle her.

The American people created the monster and then they want to cry about the monster.

Black Harvard Sociologist Orlando Patterson said, America, “is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other society, including all of those of Africa".

Author Kathleen Brush visited 114 nations during the course of her “racism” research and has found what common sense informs us: The United States is among the least racist countries on Earth.

“I have been studying racism around the world for more than a decade, including visiting 114 nations. I know what systemic racism looks like. It is opposite to the United States,” Brush told Carlson.

BLM matter crying when they have it better in America than any other nation.

The major influences in the past did not like to put others on their level for they wanted to show superiority above them.

But in America millions of black people do better than millions of white people.

Greediness, arrogance, fighting, belittling, whining, and things of that sort.

And businesses that can never have enough money and charge ridiculous prices and find excuses to raise them higher and if they cannot find an excuse the prices are going up anyway.

Ripping off the very people that made them rich by higher prices, lower quantity, and less quality.

And sometimes all 3 at the same time the trifecta of greediness.

So they will try to make as much money as they can for the Christmas season for it is all about money to them..

Pro 30:11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Pro 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

Pro 30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

Pro 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

God already told us that they will heap money to themselves and not care about the poor and needy.

Which can only happen at the time of technology which they can make more money for they can reach more people and money flowing like a raging river.

Which we see millions of dollars and billions of dollars is not good enough for them.
 
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I love Christmas and rejoicing at the birth of Christ our Saviour and did once live in a Christian country where even non-believers joined in with our great Christian traditions but now the country is apparently 'multi-cultural' and other faiths are given at least equal weight which has meant Christmas and Christianity have been down graded. You see it in advertising which just shows Christmas as a time for eating and drinking and giving presents with NO mention of the birth of Christ. Even the word Christmas is often 'removed' as I guess the advertisers believe the first six letters cause offence to other faiths. Tesco's -a big UK supermarket - is selling an "Evergreen tree' (made from plastic so I guess it would be 'evergreen' ) rather than a Christmas tree. Other supermarkets sell Winter cakes rather than Christmas cakes and refer to 'happy Holidays' and 'Winter Festivals' - rather then Christmas holidays and Christmas markets and Festivals. Are things as bad as this in America and other countries? Sorry for the rant but this really annoys me!!!!:mad:


They apparently don't know that holiday derived from the word "holy day". smh
 
Yes, we need to put "Christ" back into Christmas. The problem starts with the church. We have allowed Satan to infiltrate our societies, flooding us with people hostile to Christ. I met someone in the UK who works to help Muslim immigrants settle into the country. Some of those migrants would cheerfully cut off his head if he said one negative word about the unholy book and their supposed prophet.

The church is supposed to be salt and light. We are neither. I believe this to be the great apostasy that Jesus warned us would come. We have His authority and power. What have we done with it? I think the evidence is obvious from the circumstances. America has elected a Muslim mayor. Islam, in spite of its evil ways, has taken root in the West in a way that I never imagined possible.

My late mentor and friend warned of this in the 1970's. He saw Islam like a black mist rising out of the ground and covering the earth.

Some say that Islam is harmless. Those living under the Iranian regime or in any Muslim majority country would disagree. Some say that a democracy would never vote for Sharia law. Except Muslims out breed everyone. Eventually, they will be the majority, for example, in the UK. It will be easy to amend the law to enforce Sharia. It may take many more years. Hopefully, Jesus will return and put an end to the rot. Alternatively, a Muslim controlled country will have access to a modern, if small, military and nuclear weapons. What could possibly go wrong.



Yes I agree we've rolled over in Britain and let the Muslims take control. Islam is not tolerant or peaceful and doesn't accept other religions or viewpoints. We have up to 40,000 mostly young men - mainly Muslim - arriving every year by boats and the socialist government does absolutely nothing nor do the previous government ( In fact they WANT it to happen) and if that's not an invasion I don't know what is. Crime in the UK gets worse ever year and record numbers are leaving as Britain is going down hill very fast. You go a lot of towns and you barely hear English. England will be an Islamic Republic one day. President Trump is right to say this. He is the only one that seems to recognise the damager. Every other politician seems seems obsessed by human rights but not those of the people they represent. Tragically Britain has deserted the word of Christ our Saviour and every day Satan's talons dig deeper.
 
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Wait is this a thread for complaining about how corporations have merchandised the crap out of Christmas, or for complaining about how other religions have encroached on our territory?

Either way it's futile.

It's really easy (and a whole lot of fun!) to point fingers, but it won't have any net benefit. The problem starts with us. If we would stop buying a lot of junk just because it's Christmas, they would no longer have any incentive to merchandise Christmas so much.
 
Yes I agree we've rolled over in Britain and let the Muslims take control. Islam is not tolerant or peaceful and doesn't accept other religions or viewpoints. We have up to 40,000 mostly young men - mainly Muslim - arriving every year by boats and the socialist government does absolutely nothing nor do the previous government ( In fact they WANT it to happen) and if that's not an invasion I don't know what is. Crime in the UK gets worse ever year and record numbers are leaving as Britain is going down hill very fast. You go a lot of towns and you barely hear English. England will be an Islamic Republic one day. President Trump is right to say this. He is the only one that seems to recognise the damager. Every other politician seems seems obsessed by human rights but not those of the people they represent. Tragically Britain has deserted the word of Christ our Saviour and every day Satan's talons dig deeper.
Thank you for confirming this. Some think that I'm overreacting. I last visited the UK, where I was born, in 2016. Jerusalem is not being built, more like Mecca. The "dark satanic mills" are minarets. I was shocked by the change since my previous visit in 1994.
 
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Gods word just running its course. The world has chosen worthlessness, an empty shell of vapidness, a people built on words without meaning, a soiciety built on principals that uphold nothing, a senseless hatred that pretends to be love, a circle of backstabbing that pretends to be business, a cloack and mask of great pride without substance; a brotherhood where every single man sees his neighbor as a stepping stone, and it will be called a bond of peace, freindship, and tolerence—and it's a hill they're going to die on, as great plagues torment them, God himself preaches to them, and the truth of what they really are is shoved in their face.
 
Are things as bad as this in America and other countries? Sorry for the rant but this really annoys me!
Based upon the commonality of reports throughout the world, the level of damage in the public eye may be the only thing that separates us, for the general direction for the shift of more of the same is identical.

We all know what Jesus said about kingdoms that stand, does culture happen to fit into that definition? Yes, going back through the world's so-called intellectual elites of power and academia came in the prominence of church chaff who left the fold of doctrinal consensus, all the while bearing the name of Christ to overthrow that precious consensus en masse. Yes, annoys me too. Can't hear the alarm enough, and thank you!
 
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