Results tagged “christianity”

But what if attitudes and religious memeplexes aren’t changing because adapting to social pressure is necessary? What if the new millenarianism, instead of crashing computers, will be a fight to the death with a Frankenstein version of Mother Nature? What if environmentalism is becoming the new faith? What if responsible consumerism is the new moral ethic? What if recycling, dear Green God, is the new ritual of absolution?

Apparently there is a big hullabaloo about the semantics of selling those firs that we see on lots and at home improvement and grocery stores all over town this time of year. You know the ones: you can hang popcorn from them, string lights, dangle Shrinky Dink ornaments of Snoopy and Woodstock on ice skates. You know, Christmas, er, Holiday, er Christmas Trees. A Lowe’s Home Improvement Store in town had a banner hung advertising “Holiday Trees.” But you- know-who (ok, if you don’t, uptight conservative Christians who get verrry offended when they are oppressed, as has been the case in this country since its inception, right? Whatever) These good ol’ soap-figurine-of-Jesus-havin folks (who probably all voted for Proposition 2 recently) said it was just plain wrong, y’all, to take the Christ out of Christmas. Well, gosh durn if they didn’t start a petition. And gall darnit if the good folks at Lowe’s didn’t get more-than-a-little worried about the threat of these uber-consumers pulling their business. So Christ is back in business at Lowe’s.