After reading this, I’ve become more disappointed with this country. It’s a news story about a gas company that decided not to display their enormous cross this year. It has been their tradition for 40 years, and this year they decided they didn’t want to offend anyone.
I’ve just about had it with this world, and I can only imagine the point of hurt and frustration that God must be at. Imagine sending your child into the world to save everyone, and then watching as people slowly stomp his name into the dirt, and spit in his face with the most ridiculous and ignorant things ever imaginable.
I’m not talking about unbelievers either. Apparently, the guy who made this decision is a Christian. Has he lost his mind? Since when are customers more important than the One who was tortured and crucified for our salvation?!
You know what offends me? I’ll make a list for you…
- Pornographic calendars near the checkout isle at Walmart
- Seeing books like The Secret when I first walk into Waldenbooks
- The constant foul language that everyone seems to use nowadays
- The lack of customer service…EVERYWHERE
- The “New Age Beverages” isle at Target
- Darwinism bumper stickers
- The people that find it necessary to use the name of Jesus when they are extremely angry (it’s always the people that don’t even believe in Him)
I could go on, but you know what? Who cares? I don’t cry myself to sleep over these things any more than unbelievers cry themselves to sleep over seeing a cross! How many “offended” people have you actually encountered that say, “oh I just can’t believe they have a nativity scene in their yard” or, “can you believe he said Merry Christmas? That is so inappropriate!”
We are catering to the .086% of the population who would actually speak out against Christian imagery, and what is the real reason? It’s called a backbone, and it’s been deteriorating for years now. To all the whiners out there; cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it!
When your done wiping your tears away, you can start worrying about more important issues…like those pornographic calendars at Walmart.
I know what you mean! So many stores are censoring the word “Christmas” because it might offend somebody. People certainly have the right to get offended, but I also have the right to express myself freely, and if that offends them, that doesn’t limit my right.
Fortunately, this year less stores were censoring “Christmas”, but still the whole “politically correct” mentality has gone way overboard. I can’t believe how wimpy people have become these days, that folks get offended over almost anything.
This censoring that’s starting to happen so people won’t get offended is a slippery slope. If we start limiting what people can say and do, that takes away our freedom of speech and freedom of religion. And then we don’t have a free country anymore because the government will control what can and can’t be said. People need to wake up and realize what direction this nonsense is headed.
Comment Submitted: January 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm