The Very Reverend Billy and Whose War on Christmas?

From the Raw Story here is the real question which Rev. Billy asks, ‘What Would Jesus Buy.” With that in mind read this Raw Story story and watch this video and think about your consumer choices and purchases.

What would Jesus buy? Preacher leads anti-shopping church in war on consumerism.

12/05/2007 @ 4:13 pm

Filed by Mike Aivaz and Mike Sheehan

With Americans expected to spend about almost $500 billion this Christmas, ABC's 'Nightline' takes a closer look at one man trying to spread the message that America is being crushed under the weight of consumerism.

"We're proceeding into the shopping season under an enormous misunderstanding. We think we are consumers at Christmas time," shouted the flamboyant Rev. Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping. "No, we are being consumed!"

Talen is an activist and performance artist who's made his presence known at malls and chain stores in New York City. His efforts to halt what he and his followers call the "shopocalypse" have been chronicled in a new documentary, 'What Would Jesus Buy?' In the film, Talen is shown being kicked out of a Starbucks, performing an exorcism at Wal-Mart headquarters, and getting arrested in front of a Disney store.

"I think the commercial Christmas has become the Grinch," says Talen. "Polls indicate that most Americans now think of Christmas with dread rather than happy anticipation, and that's sad."

And here is the trailer for the movie:

We don’t “need” all that stuff folks. And you know it