The novelty gift store Spencers, famous for their line of absurd and strange gifts has finally crossed a sacred line. They have insulted the most prestigious holiday in the Christian religion… Christmas.
With their disturbing line of Pornaments, Spencers has defiled several Christmas icons such as Frosty the snowman, Santa’s elves, and even the good ole gingerbread man himself. No bad deed goes unnoticed and many Christians are disgusted, including one Rev. Jim Patterson of the Hillcrest Baptist Church who had this to say:
"It is just sad they have to stoop to this kind of thing to defame Christmas. It says we are nothing more than sexual acts or psychical being and we are much more than that. We are spiritual beings and this is a spiritual holiday. And, why bring it to that level. It makes no sense to me."
Bravo Jim, you couldn’t be more correct brother! For centuries, the birth of Jesus has been celebrated the world over by faithful Christians in the most honorable and traditional manner. Make no mistake. Christmas, at least in the US, is not about running up gobs of credit card debt at Walmart in a desperate attempt to win your kids over with a bunch of crap that was made in China. Oh no sir! Christmas is not about that at all. The tens of billions of dollars we spend every Christmas season, in the US alone, are spent of the needy and the less fortunate in the true spirit of Christmas.
How dare companies like Spencers cheapen this glorious occasion with these trinkets of the flesh in a feeble attempt to denigrate Christmas. For shame!
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December 4th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
“It says we are nothing more than sexual acts or psychical being”
I wouldn’t consider myself an sexual act per se.
December 4th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Regarding our common origins, i would say we are all acts of sex, aren’t we?
December 4th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Results, perhaps, but not the acts themselves. An act isn’t a thing in and of itself, it is that which a thing does. I think.
December 4th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Oh, almost forgot: this doesn’t apply if you’re a test-tube baby, in which case it really doesn’t matter because you are guaranteed an eternity of fiery torment as far as I know.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
what does frosty the snowman and ginger bread couples have to do with the birth of baby jesus?
December 5th, 2006 at 4:13 am
Who knows? They obviously need something new to be outraged over.
December 5th, 2006 at 4:47 am
Everyone knows that the Gingerbread community are mostly Buddhists. They have a histroy of being comfortable with theirs oven browned bodies and believe frontal nudity as spiritual. Not only that, they are delicious! I call dips on the privates!
December 5th, 2006 at 10:41 am
“”We are spiritual beings and this is a spiritual holiday. “”
Riiiiight, because Christmas is so very Christian today, with the Christmas tree, the food and the presents…oh wait…
“”why bring it to that level. It makes no sense to me.”"
wonder where he thinks little Christians come from?
December 5th, 2006 at 11:03 am
Yeah, then why aren’t they mad about Santa Clause, too? The Easter Bunny?
They just want to be mad about something. It’s obvious people are gonna do whatever they want, and should. Freedom of religion does not include the right to take away other people’s freedoms. Besides, naughty Christmas novelty items have been around longer than rust. Why get mad now?
December 5th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Don’t forget the baby Jesus Butt Plug…
Find it here.
I am wondering when they are going to realize that the current incarnation of Christmas is simply the pagan holiday Yule with Jesus kind of crammed up in there… kind of like a Baby Jesus Butt Plug come to think of it…
December 5th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Good grief. Context people!This is Spencer’s! Let’s look at what else they have in the store. Edible underwear, massage lotions, erotic greeting cards, etc etc. It’s not like Hallmark is carrying these!
December 5th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Speaking of Hallmark, have you actually read some of the stuff that’s in greeting cards? Talk about messed-up… sexism, stereotypes, dirty jokes… I say we get the people to protest those instead. Hell, I bet if you did some searching, you could even find a few with pictures of Mohamed (probably not hallmark ones though).
January 15th, 2007 at 12:16 am
This, and the Baby Jesus Butt-Plug, reminds me of a joke I just saw on TV. People are mad about “adult” Christmas toys, but “any toy can be made an adult toy…location, location, location”
January 18th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
“Oh, almost forgot: this doesn’t apply if you’re a test-tube baby, in which case it really doesn’t matter because you are guaranteed an eternity of fiery torment as far as I know.”
I think very few Christian groups would teach that. Certainly many would say in vitro fertilization is a sin, but a human being who is conceived this way is not responsible for the sin. And in fact, even the parents, who did commit the sin, are not “guaranteed an eternity of fiery torment.” Anyone may repent and confess their sins and go to heaven, though perhaps not everyone does.
March 9th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Arktis,
‘Yeah, then why aren’t they mad about Santa Clause, too? The Easter Bunny?’
Seriously, some are. I grew up with a girl whose parents never did the Santa Claus thing ‘because it took the focus off of Christ’s birth.’ Of course, this same girl refused to call Godzilla anything other than ‘zilla, because a ‘big ol’ monster like that isn’t GOD.’
The only people I’ve run across that are this extreme are generally the most conservative Christian groups. Southern Baptists, for example. Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons…uh, I mean ‘Latter Day Saints’…
:::shrug:::