Where are the Christian Christmas cards?

Should stores be expected to stock Christmas cards with an overtly Christian theme? Some in the UK think so. But it was Adam Smith who pointed out the fallacy of this thinking. Stores are denying shoppers something they want: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest” wrote Smith.

The Christian Institute:

Probe: most Christmas cards don’t have religious themes

Critics have hit out at revelations that less than one per cent of Christmas cards sold in top supermarkets have religious themes. In a newspaper investigation of over 5,000 Christmas cards at leading supermarkets in England and Wales, only 45 had a religious theme. The Daily Mail’s investigation labelled Morrisons the worst offender. Out of 973 cards surveyed at the chain, only six had a religious theme.

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Mr Pickles commented: “The war on Christmas is over, and the likes of Winterval, Winter Lights and Luminous deserve to be in the dustbin of history.”

In October the Church of England warned that supermarkets were reluctant to stock an Easter egg which mentions Jesus Christ and his crucifixion.

The Real Easter Egg, which has been launched by the Church of England, carries a panel which explains that Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and resurrected on Easter Sunday, and its packaging also depicts a hill with three crosses on it.

What’s with “journalists” and the verb “probe”? (See previous post.)