Happy Holidays

Yeah, I said it!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! And here’s why I said it, because it doesn’t matter.
I don’t really keep up with a lot of news, but being a minister I hear a lot about retail stores not using the term “Merry Christmas” but instead using “Happy Holidays”.
Here’s my take on this…More...

1st, why wouldn’t a retail store want to make sure it wasn’t ignoring a portion of their customers. They’re in business to make money. Doesn’t matter if that money comes from a Jew, an atheist, a Buddhist, or even a Muslim, it’s all green! So from a business perspective, it makes sense.

2nd, as Christians when will stop being surprised to find out we’re living in a secular world. We do not live in a Christian society! As much as we’d all like to think so, we don’t!

If anything I can see an upside to all this. I won’t use the term “persecution” because as American Christians we have no idea what the word means, but I will say it’s about time our faith became a little inconvenient. We as the American church could use a little more inconveniencing anyway. Maybe we’ll start taking things like reading our Bible, praying, and going to church a little more seriously if we had people telling us we couldn’t do those things freely. Have the government shut the doors on Christian churches a couple of weeks, I guarantee the next week they’d be packed with “protesters” asserting their rights to worship. The fact is we have those rights, we just don’t use them. It’s like having closets full of clothes, you don’t wear them all, but you like having the option.

Either wear the clothes or get rid of them. Use the rights we’ve been blessed with or lose them. Let’s stop reacting with boycotts every time we realize that not everyone is Christian like us. All we’re doing is using intimidation to get what we want. I know another religion that does that, except they blow up buildings instead of just staying away from them.

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