Best Buy Bans Use of "Merry Christmas"
The American Family Association brings to our attention yet another retailer to avoid this coming Christmas shopping season:
Best Buy has announced they will be using "Happy Holidays" this coming Christmas shopping season, and they will not be using "Merry Christmas."(emphasis in original)
Dawn Bryant, a spokeswoman at Best Buy Co. Inc., says their advertising will not be using the term "Merry Christmas." "We are going to continue to use the term holiday because there are several holidays throughout that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of them," Bryant said. Click here for reference article.
While many other retailers have decided to return to the traditional "Merry Christmas", Best Buy will not be among them. Best Buy considers the use of "Merry Christmas" to be disrespectful.
But while Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics company in the nation, will not be mentioning Christmas, they sure do want the shopping dollars from those who remember the Reason for the season.
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My Comments:
"Best Buy considers the use of "Merry Christmas" to be disrespectful."
And I consider it disrespectful for a retailer to try to make money off of a holy day celebrated by the overwhelming majority of people in this country without even acknowledging it.
Previous Pro Ecclesia posts on this subject:
Wal-Mart: We're Not Afraid to Say Merry Christmas
Merry You-Know-What
Jewish Groups: Okay to Say "Merry Christmas"
Catholic League Ends Its Boycott Of Wal-Mart
Catholic League: Wal-Mart Joins Neo-Puritan Left In Banning Baby Jesus' Birthday
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:32 AM
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As I have pointed out with the similar Wal-Mart issue... many Jews that I know do not care at all about the phrase "Merry Christmas." In fact, many of them have Christmas trees and participate in different ways in these holidays.
As we all know, this initiative as many others of this same nature are just a sign of a growing secularism in the world that seeks to push religion completely out of the human experience.
Once we reach that point, if we let them, that will be the complete destruction of the human person, as Benedict XVI points out in his encyclical.
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