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in our Wachovia bank. A teller told me, after I commented on the nice Christmas decorations, that they were told to take them all down. I asked why and she said it was coming from Corporate - no more Christmas decorations. Anyone else ever hear of anything like this? (other than mangers outside public buildings) I guess all the stores remove decorations, too, and maybe we should stop buying gifts? I'm supposing it's offending non-Christians and non-believers?
Research the origins of Christmas, and you'll help them pull them down.
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Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. (Jer 10:1-5)
in our Wachovia bank. A teller told me, after I commented on the nice Christmas decorations, that they were told to take them all down. I asked why and she said it was coming from Corporate - no more Christmas decorations. Anyone else ever hear of anything like this? (other than mangers outside public buildings) I guess all the stores remove decorations, too, and maybe we should stop buying gifts? I'm supposing it's offending non-Christians and non-believers?
I think it was at Michigan State University, in the hallway or waiting room of the administration building were Christmas decorations and a Jewish professor I believe (it was a long time ago) took up issue with the decorations citing "separartion of church and state".....It was thrown out of court, the judge said and I quote, "Christmas decorations have nothing to do with Christianity" Takes a judge to figure that out.
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in our Wachovia bank. A teller told me, after I commented on the nice Christmas decorations, that they were told to take them all down. I asked why and she said it was coming from Corporate - no more Christmas decorations. Anyone else ever hear of anything like this? (other than mangers outside public buildings) I guess all the stores remove decorations, too, and maybe we should stop buying gifts? I'm supposing it's offending non-Christians and non-believers?
You should make new decorations out of dollar bills so it will be more "appropriate" to a hollow, profit oriented institution.
"If Best Buy will not acknowledge the true reason for the seasons (CHRISTmas) they will not be getting my $$. If they are too ashamed and offended by the true celebration to the point that they will not display it, then they should not be profiting from us."
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So they put them up only to be taken down? I would think that they would have sent a inter office or corperate wide memo BEFORE the branches started decorating discouraging them from it. It's a private company and really they can do whatever they want. Again, we will see more of this years from now.
Thank you for the ref. to Jeremiah. One might say Christmas is heathen at its worst and a Catholic concoction at it's best.
However you will note the verse says, neither is it in it to do good or bad. So, what think ye ? ? ?
Isn't that sort of legalistic? Christmas is between the individual and the Holy Spirit...is it not?
I detest how the desire to be holy is often met with cries of legalism.
Legalism is when someone is telling you to do something that God did not tell you do to. Abstaining from the appearance of evil, avoiding worship that is based in pagan practices, and separating from the world don't fall into that category. It falls into the category of obeying God.
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It's a private company and really they can do whatever they want. Again, we will see more of this years from now. 
