Losing Christ in the Holidays
My cousin Theresa flew in Christmas eve from Alabama. I was lucky enough to be selected for airport pickup of her and her two daughters, as I am lucky enough to happen to be the closest family member to O’Hare.
After getting the kids buckled in the safety seats, and settling in for a short ride back to Bolingbrook, I started complaining about the lack of Christmas music [less 90.1 & 93.9] I had heard on the radio this year. Well… Terry, as she likes to be called, informed me that she went to a Kmart in Alabama and was looking to get a new Nativity Scene. She couldn’t find them and asked the store manager where the Nativity Scenes were. The store manager promptly responded saying that they were not allowed to sell Nativity Scenes.
Of course, after hearing this story I was complaining about it to some family members, and my mother mentioned that my sister-in-law went to Walmart and Target looking for a baby Jesus to put on a cake for the children’s Christmas party. She did not find any Nativity Scenes either. Of course, she didn’t ask the store manager, but it would have been interesting to find out if they were likewise forbidden to sell Nativity Scenes.
What I want to know is…who’s forbidding them from selling these items? Could it be…. SATAN!?!?!?! hahahaha
Still, its quite disturbing when 80% of a store’s holiday business comes from people who would agree that something is quite wrong when stores aren’t allowed to sell Nativity Scenes. Very disturbing.