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Liberal News and Commentary
Wednesday, December 25, 2002

Slow Holiday Sales Due to
Increase in Atheism

      Retailers are perplexed as to why holiday sales were much less than anticipated, this year.  Even factoring in the usual disastrous Bush economy, sales were still slower than expected.  What could it be?

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      As report in the March 8, 2002, edition of Liberal News & Commentary, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York issued a Survey of Religion in America that revealed a surge in atheism in this country.  More people than ever before have come to the realization that God is make-believe.

      When you are an atheist, you don't have any need, whatsoever, to fight the crowds in the malls during December of each year.  Besides that, what self-respecting atheist would want to go shopping in a place that is inundated with Christian symbolism at every step?  What atheist would want to shop in a place where they are cramming Jesus music down your ears the whole time you are there?

      If stores want to do more business during December, they should provide the surging number of atheists in this country with a secular alternative.  Christians certainly have a right to celebrate their mythology, but could we atheists please have a place in stores where we could be left alone regarding religion?

      When stores become more atheist-friendly in December by providing us with a secular alternative, that's when seasonal sales at this time of year will pick up.

      Major stores across the country will be starting huge sales, beginning tomorrow.  Why would we atheists want to pay full price before the 25th?  That's what God created Christians for!

      Atheist Shopping Days begin on December 27th.  Why not, you might wonder, start it on the 26th?  That's when all the Christians are mobbing the stores to return the junk that they got, today, but didn't want.  We start our shopping the following day, after all the Christians have gone home.

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