Black Friday and the Bankruptcy of the American Soul

by Sidney Carton

A 34-year-old Wal Mart employee was crushed to death today after being trampled by 200 people rushing to get cheap HDTV’s and Laptop computers offered as so-called “doorbusters” by the chain store. There are no words to convey the horror and disgust that accompany this story. We are reminded every year by self-righteous pontificating news-personalities of a so-called “war on Christmas” in which the forces of the Godless Left are trying to undermine the spirit of the Season by uttering such words as “Happy Holidays” in order to utter the name of Christ, and the religious holiday we supposedly celebrate on this day.

And what would the Savior think of this? What would he think of those who mindlessly slaughtered a man because he stood between them and the cheap items they sought after? I ask those who blindly and stupidly crushed one of their own in a mad rush to consume, was it worth it? Was the electronic device that you got at cut rates to either sell or discard within 5 years really worth this mans life? Was your momentary pleasure worth snuffing out the yet uncounted years this man might have lived, to say nothing of the wife and children who will pass this Christmas without ever seeing their father alive again? Was it worth it? If so, then I condemn you for being as cheap and as soulless as the garbage you bought with that man’s blood.

As for Wal Mart, a corporation which in the interests of full disclosure I must admit I have shopped at due to poverty, I had long thought that they had permanently sunk beneath my contempt. I find I was wrong. Shame is too tame a word to describe what they should be made to suffer for inciting such feelings. We have long known that they have no sense of decency, but this should be the ultimate wake up call that mega retailers not only do not care about the People, their contempt for us is open, and they eagerly seek to drive us to depths of depravity to which rabid and diseased animals rarely sink.

And to those who will, as they have ever done in years past, decry once again their fictive “War on Christmas” I can only point to episodes such as this and remark, “If this holiday inspires and encourages such vicious and brutal behavior, should it not be warred against, with all the energy of our souls?” This is no celebration of the birth of the Christ child, the Prince of Peace who extolled not the power of ones pocket book, but the contents of one’s soul, this is a blood festival in support of Mammon itself with little care for love hope or faith. Defense of such shameful displays of selfishness deserve only the deepest scorn and reviling (Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity I’m talking to you) anything less would truly be hypocritical.

Anna Quindlin once stated that “consumption is a wasting disease” if so, then we are truly seeing the final stages of the death of America. May it not be so.