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Monday, December 26, 2005
Happy Holocaust!
There goes Christmas -- the most commercialized holiday in the world. Now we can look forward to Easter, the second most important holiday on the Christian calender and one that has also been commercialized to the point where its meaning is obscured by bunnies, chocolate and painted eggs. I know why these two holidays have been commercialized -- it's part of the overall war on Christianity. But why not commercialize other holidays too?
Hanukkah is almost untouched. Maybe marketers can't figure out how to make draidels profitable. I can understand why nobody wants to commercialize Ramadan. Come out with a line of Ramadan snacks and your factory will probably be blown up.
The line of tastelessness was crossed when businesses started holding Memorial Day sales. For some reason, furniture stores seem to hold blowout sales around the date originally intended to decorate the graves of our fallen warriors.
So why not throw drunken parties during Holocaust Day?
Why not have picnics, fireworks and blowout sales on 9/11 Day?
Offensive? That's my point.
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Never been to Catholic school. I just figure, if the Messiah hadn't been born, he couldn't have been crucified and taken up into Heaven -- not to mention all the other things in between those two events.
You've made a good point. I personally don't pay much attention to the commercialization of Christmas. Not anymore, anyway. I keep Christmas in my own heart. I expect you do, too.
Here's my prediction: by 2021, sales and other tawdry celebrations will be commplace on September 11th.
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