For years Christmas has not been tolerated in the public sphere. The Christmas Break we geezers enjoyed in our school days is now "Winter Break." You can buy a "Holiday Tree" or "Holiday Lights," because certainly anyone wishing to decorate their home in December would be offended if their Christmas lights actually said the "C word" on the package. I mean who are they trying not to offend?
Now it appears that the Thanksgiving holiday is also under attack.
I received a promotional email from a company having specials all week the week of Thanksgiving. But they are not "Thanksgiving Week" specials, they are "Black Friday Week" specials. Not Black Friday specials. Black Friday WEEK specials... the important day that week is the Friday.
You might let this slip by if it were a retail company taking advantage of what has become a day for big discounts. But these specials are not on sale items. The company doesn't sell anything. They pay people for their time. The specials are bonuses in that pay. So this is not simply a retailer that extended Black Friday for the whole week. This kind of company could have picked any holiday and made a week out of it. This makes it especially grievous to me that they called it "Black Friday Week" instead of the other choice they could have made to call that week.
Oh, and get this: the email points out that they "will be closed on Thursday November 27th." I wonder why? It's only the day before Black Friday, and that's nothing special is it? No mention that they will be closed for Thanksgiving Day, just "Thursday November 27th."
I have resisted and boycotted Black Friday for twenty years. I always said it would become the Devil's alternative to Thanksgiving and I didn't want any part of it. Now that Thanksgiving, like Christmas, has apparently become an unmentionable day and not tolerated, what happened?
Black Friday is now the reason for the late November season, not that other day. This email I received is simply part of a trend. In time to come, anything going on around that time will become more and more linked to "Black Friday" than to Thanksgiving. Even the football games on Thanksgiving Day (which I also oppose) will soon be called "The day before Black Friday football games."
This is madness. This has gone too far too fast. A time for giving thanks to God for His sustaining blessings has been turned into the exact opposite: a time for shamelessly spending money you don't have, buying baubles you don't need, from godless Chinese commie slave-labor companies you don't know anything about. And now THAT has become the focal point of the fourth week of November.
It's because somebody might be offended if you suggest they should take a day to be thankful. But nobody will be offended if you suggest they take a day to spend like there's no tomorrow. Nobody will be offended... except us thankful Christans, and we don't count any more.
Have a Happy Black Friday if you can now.
VM
Now it appears that the Thanksgiving holiday is also under attack.
I received a promotional email from a company having specials all week the week of Thanksgiving. But they are not "Thanksgiving Week" specials, they are "Black Friday Week" specials. Not Black Friday specials. Black Friday WEEK specials... the important day that week is the Friday.
You might let this slip by if it were a retail company taking advantage of what has become a day for big discounts. But these specials are not on sale items. The company doesn't sell anything. They pay people for their time. The specials are bonuses in that pay. So this is not simply a retailer that extended Black Friday for the whole week. This kind of company could have picked any holiday and made a week out of it. This makes it especially grievous to me that they called it "Black Friday Week" instead of the other choice they could have made to call that week.
Oh, and get this: the email points out that they "will be closed on Thursday November 27th." I wonder why? It's only the day before Black Friday, and that's nothing special is it? No mention that they will be closed for Thanksgiving Day, just "Thursday November 27th."
I have resisted and boycotted Black Friday for twenty years. I always said it would become the Devil's alternative to Thanksgiving and I didn't want any part of it. Now that Thanksgiving, like Christmas, has apparently become an unmentionable day and not tolerated, what happened?
Black Friday is now the reason for the late November season, not that other day. This email I received is simply part of a trend. In time to come, anything going on around that time will become more and more linked to "Black Friday" than to Thanksgiving. Even the football games on Thanksgiving Day (which I also oppose) will soon be called "The day before Black Friday football games."
This is madness. This has gone too far too fast. A time for giving thanks to God for His sustaining blessings has been turned into the exact opposite: a time for shamelessly spending money you don't have, buying baubles you don't need, from godless Chinese commie slave-labor companies you don't know anything about. And now THAT has become the focal point of the fourth week of November.
It's because somebody might be offended if you suggest they should take a day to be thankful. But nobody will be offended if you suggest they take a day to spend like there's no tomorrow. Nobody will be offended... except us thankful Christans, and we don't count any more.
Have a Happy Black Friday if you can now.
VM
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