After shopping at Macy's, one member of FBC Dallas was left with a bad taste in their mouth after this shocking experience:
"Employees would only respond with "you too" when wished a Merry Christmas."
Oh, the horror. And someone in Crowley, TX added this review about their town hall:
"The city hall at Crowley has GIANT letters in front of the city buildings that say "HAPPY HOLIDAYS"......I say "booooooooo"!!! Merry Christmas is the true REASON for the SEASON!!!"
I suppose everyone will have to avoid shopping at the courthouse.
This is not a fight we need to have. Stores have become much more accepting of Christmas in recent years and signs saying "Merry Christmas" are a common sight. But that's not the point.
When we engage in these battles, we create enmity between ourselves and others. Rather than sowing peace and getting along with our neighbors, we are creating strife and casting ourselves as the enemy. Store owners are rolling their eyes and complaining about those whining Christians rather than seeing Believers as representatives of a loving God. Forcing people to decorate their store with your preferred religious icons is a a throwback to medieval savagery, and we would do best to leave those days behind.
I'm trying to add FBC Dallas to the naughty list on their website (GrinchAlert.com). Let's see if it works. (FBC Dallas, thanks for bringing us all the wrong kind of publicity.)
