Breaking! Jesus has been sighted at several shopping malls. Here is one report:
Crucifixes sold in the US are being made in Chinese sweatshops At the Junxingye factory in China, the mostly-young women—including several 15 and 16-year-olds—making crucifixes are forced to work 14 to 15 ½ hours a day, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 or 11:30 p.m., seven days a week. There are also frequent 18 and 19-hour shifts ending at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. Before shipments of crucifixes must leave for the U.S., there are even mandatory, all-night 22 ½ to 25-hour shifts from 8:00 a.m. straight through to 6:30 or 9:00 a.m. the following morning. Workers are routinely at the factory over 100 hours a week, including being forced to work 51 hours of overtime, which exceeds China’s legal limit by 514 percent. Young women go for months on end without a single day off. After being forced to work a 19-hour shift, one worker cried out, "Jesus, take pity on me! I’m going to die of exhaustion."
I wonder if these people in Salt Lake City are looking for Him? Did they find Him?
How about these people from Boise? Don't you wish they would show up at an Anti-War rally?
That High Holy Shopping Day we now know as "Black Friday". I wonder if all those people found the true meaning of Christmas.
Then there was this young woman, who shows us that our youth have discovered the true meaning of the American Way of Life:
Could this be why the world hates us so much?
Of course, all good Christians would say that this has nothing to do with the real meaning of Christmas. The real Jesus supposedly said things like:
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."
"What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul."
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
There must be some awfully small camels (or large needles) in the US these days. Obviously all this blatant consumerism isn't Jesus' fault. Blame it on Santa Claus. He's the real culprit. But who is he anyway? Where did he from? Where is his workshop with all his elves? Here are a couple links with some elvish pictures:
Santa’s Helpers Suffer Constant Abuse
While Making Barbie, Thomas & Friends, and Other Toys for Wal-Mart
at the Xin Yi Factory in China At the Xin Yi Plastics Factory in Shenzhen, China, there are more than 5,000 workers toiling 14 ½ hours a day making Barbie and other Mattel toys, along with toys for Wal-Mart, and Thomas and Friends for the RC2 Corporation.
Ninety-five percent of the workers are illegally held as permanent temps, required to sign "new" employment contracts every two to three months, which is a scam to strip workers of their legal rights.
Workers are paid just 53 cents an hour and $21.34 a week. Forced to work excessive overtime, the toy workers are routinely at the factory 82 to 87 hours a week, while toiling 66 to 70 hours. The standard shift is 14 ½ hours a day, from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., six days a week. Mandatory overtime at the Xin Yi Factory exceeds China’s legal limit by 260 percent! Workers are routinely cheated on nearly 20 percent of the wages legally due them – resulting in the loss of two days wages each week. After deductions for primitive dorms (12 workers share each room sleeping on double-level bunk beds) and company food that the workers call "awful," the workers’ take-home wage is just 46 cents an hour.
It’s obvious now. Santa Claus is a Big Businessman. Probably a Corporate Executive. He's undoubtedly sold off his reindeer for big barges that deliver millions of dollars of toys from sweatshops overseas. Not only toys, but everything plastic, from artificial Christmas trees to Nativity Scenes. Most of his "elves" are Chinese, and many work in appalling conditions and often suffer terrible hardships. Santa should be jailed for letting this happen.
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