A baby was born and WalMart rejoiced

In a manger, a baby was born and the word spread throughout the world.

God has given the Earth his only son.

The wise men traveled to bring him gifts. The little drummer boy played. All the world rejoiced when Walmart ran their "Black Friday" sales, in celebration.

The people, gathered the day after their great feast, to show the world what Christ means to them.

They pushed their fellow man for a camera. They shoved little children for an Elmo. They, in great recognition of the Messiah, trampled store employees to prove their devotion.

There was no person they wouldn't harm to get a better deal on electronics. They must show their love for the chosen One by storming Circuit City in great hordes.

They gathered their bounty with great pride. Telling of the great department store battles. Bragging how they snatched products from the hands of the elderly. Recalling, with amusement, how they knocked an employee to the ground to be first inside the store.

In their descriptions and tales it was apparent - no American holiday is sacred.

Thanksgiving, the truly American day of feast, is disrupted with mothers and fathers going shopping. At the very least - eating early, to rise earlier on the day after, to pillage the stores.

Christmas worship is begun by fighting fellow men for discounts.

We lament of the "good old days" and how "it used to be". Then we set the example for our children, not even Thanksgiving or Christmas is sacred.

They are just days of greed celebrated by material possessions.

A baby was born in a manger.

If the celebration of his birth is not sacred - what is?