After threatening to boycott the GAP because they had the audacity to mention the Solstice and Chanukah in their “happy holidays” ad, the AFA is now claiming victory because the GAP apparently succumbed to pressure from THEM.
Except they didn’t.
The new ad, launched by GAP subsidiary Old Navy, doesn’t mention these other holidays by name. This is at least true, but it does talk about ‘the holidays’ (it’s actually in the title of the commercial) and it stays very far from implying the bigoted exclusivity for which the AFA yearns.
And by the way, the old ad is still airing, so the AFA truly lost in their effort to own the whole season in the GAP’s eyes.
The AFA lost a battle it shouldn’t have started. Bigotry is on the decline, as is Christian hatred. This new ad is harmless and silly, and stays far from solemnizing the “true meaning of Christmas” like the AFA wanted.
The good guys won. The bad guys folded. Go Solstice.
Long before Jeebus was even invented, well actually plagiarized from earlier fairy tales, there were Seasonal Holidays based on the Winter Solstice. Without the benefit of the Nightly News or Good Morning America ancient folk had much more time to watch the position of the setting and rising sun. They noticed that every year on December 25 the Sun rose noticeably closer to the Equator.
Quite a few ancient religious delusions included an Imaginary Sky Daddy who was alleged to have been born at about the time of the Solstice. The early Jeebustards were not original enough to come up with a new fairy tale about their invisible friend, so they attempted to hijack December and they have been waging a war on The Solstice for 1700 years now, ever since Christianity was invented in Rome at about the year 300.
At our house we like to de-politicize the event, so we celebrate Seasonal Holiday Gift Man Day.
Ungodly, I suggest that religion developed much like language did. It probably started in one place, or a few small places and then spread from there. Most religions seem related and I can’t help but think it’s one big metaphysical telephone game.
I think actions like this really just show the true bigoted colors of the jeebustards in question. We see their actions as childish and founded on their hatred and bigotry. So do other Christians and it helps turn them away. Personally, I think the crazy fundamentalists need to be more vocal. If they were, we might have more atheists.
Hey, at least they used fake people!
The ad mentions holidays, and Uses “Merry Christmas!” in particular, so the AFA is satisfied. But what this ad points out is the the true meaning of the holidays, specifically xmas, is found in Alpine Hoodies. Can’t be a True Chhristian without one.
Hey darlin’ can you explain to this retard that I’m not JCC? Thanks.
Beyond the fact that the date on which Christians are celebrating the birth of their savior was usurped from heathens and has been determined by biblical scholars to be totally bogus (if the dude was born at all, it wasn’t in the month of December), how does the AFA know that all those companies they’ve given a green light to aren’t saying Merry KRISmas instead?
Why would you want your holiday in a commerical ad.Does not such a thing subtract from the sacred nature of your holiday[holy day].
Everything I have ever read or learned about Christmas is that the catholic church was trying to absorb the celtic, gaelic, and other “barbaric” tribes in mid europe by compromising the birth of jesus with the winter solstice.
Bible historians place his birth in early October, but, that’s assuming that any of the story is accurate. Probably not. Something about the altitude the shepherds were grazing their sheep. But, the bottom line is that christmas is the pagan celebration of the winter solstice. The burning of the Yule log which was a pagan orgy. You’ve heard of the Yuletide carol, well I want meet this Carol and know how far back in line I am. I guess I don’t want any sloppy thirty second. When I was eighteen, I would not have been so careful.
NeoWolfe
I thought that the whole boycott was idiotic to begin with, and i probably would have went insane if they would have won…