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It exhorts us to pay attention to what is important: Christmas with “No credit cards. No big business. Just Christmas”.
So what is “Just Christmas”? The anti-festive malcontents don’t propose to occupy Christmas with the birth of Jesus, joy to the world, the mystery of the Incarnation or anything so trite. The real meaning of Christmas, the logos of the layabouts is the damaging of corporate America:
Occupy Christmas is about turning the tables on Corporate American greed during the season when the 99% can cause the most economic damage and send the clearest message. Instead of spending your hard earned money with Corporate America this (or any) Christmas, why not make the conscious decision to fuel your own local economy? Why not refuse to use credit cards?
At least I have to give the Occupy movement credit for being non-inclusive: they could have called it “Occupy the Holiday Season”.
I want to thank-you for this post as it has inspired me to change my sermon for tomorrow. The penitential ‘sit-in’ of Advent so that Christ might occupy 99% (plus 1) of our hearts at Christmas; that we might reform the secular policies of our thinking that affect the heart, to the sacred policies of the LORD that redeem and beautify the heart and the world around us; etc. Again thanks.
You’re welcome; that sounds like a good subject for an Advent sermon.
Not sure what you find wrong about refusing to use credit cards and shopping at local small businesses rather than the chain stores. Seems like a pretty good idea to me, not to ‘damage corporate America’ but to keep my great locally owned toystore in business. I wish I had had the forsight to do that with my book shopping before most of the small bookstores closed down.