Coca Cola, Typical Pluralistic (Except for Christianity) Company
About the Author: The Party of Kennedy is NOT the Party of Pelosi. The Democratic Party has radically degenerated into a socialistic and postmodern perversion of its former place in American political thought. In place of Judeo-Christian values they embrace secular humanism; in place of a strong national defense they embrace a reliance upon internationalism; in place of a strong family they embrace a radical abortion agenda that increasingly includes outright infanticide.
I can't sit idly by and watch the culture war pass me by. It is time to choose sides. As Joshua 24:15 puts it, "choose this day whom you will serve."
Polls have shown that the more committed one is to (any) religious belief, the more conservative one tends to be politically. One’s views toward religion profoundly affect one’s commitment to political, social, and moral issues. In my articles, I seek to argue in favor of a religion-friendly view of culture, morality, and politics. Read more from this authorThe crescent moon and star — yes, the same symbol featured on the flags of so many Muslim countries — is an internationally-recognized symbol of the Islamic faith in much the same way as the cross represents Christianity and the star of David Judaism. When I learned the symbol of the Islamic faith will appear on Coca-Cola packaging during Ramadan 2008, I found myself wondering whether or not the Atlanta-based soft drink maker will soon include the Christian cross and Jewish star of David in future holiday packaging designs targeting people of those faiths.
Here’s what the new cans look like:
Coca Cola - ever the profit-seeking enterprise - puts cute polar bears on their cans to “celebrate” Christmas. Jews don’t even receive the token snub that Christians get for their Hannukah.
In the name of pluralism and multiculturalism we are downright hostile to our own religious traditions even as we eagerly celebrate others.
Coca Cola and companies that now shun “Merry Christmas” greetings in favor of the neutral “Happy Holidays” pursued this reverse discrimination tactic only after years of lawsuits and judicial-activist government rulings.
World Net daily had an article titled “‘Five pillars of Islam’ taught in public school” that begins:
Another school has been “teaching” Islam by having students study and learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims, and a lawyer who argued a previous dispute over this issue to the U.S. Supreme Court said such methodologies wouldn’t “last 10 seconds” if it were Christianity being taught.
Educational Issues has an article titled, “Muslim Prayer in Public Schools: Are Public Schools Accommodating Islam Over Christianity?” And the answer is clearly, “YES.”
The ACLU, so vigilant of any “intrusion” of Christianity into public life, make it a point to look the other way when Islam is thrust upon us even when public funding is used to do the thrusting.
It is frankly amazing how liberals and secular humanists are so unrelentingly hostile toward Christianity in the name of “multiculturalism” and “separation of church and state” even as they embrace religions such as Islam in the name of the very same things!
As government creates a “gulag-like” mentality about expressing Christianity in public, corporations like Coca Cola follow the trend and go where the most money - and the least controversy - is.
And we continue to surrender everything that made this nation - and the Christian religious tradition that both formed and informed it - great.
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Great post. It seems to be Counter Culture Strikes Back and everything they are doing is destroying the traditions and religions that formed this nation. It is truly becoming a sad, sad spectacle.
Thanks, Alcamadus.
The whole gay marriage thing is another great example. Marriage has always been a union between a man and a woman. Yet now we are denounced for “trying to take away gay rights.” How can we take away something they never had? It is rather they who are taking away OUR rights: the right to understand marriage as the legally-recognized spiritual one-man-one-woman union it has always been.
These people turn tolerance upside down and then label us as “intolerant” by their warped definition (disapproving their lifestyle) when THEY’RE intolerant of us by their own use of the term.
Secular humanist liberals argued that our culture should be a values-free vacuum in the name of “tolerance,” and then rushed their depraved values in to fill the hole.