@onewhiteSparrow wrote:
@Pearlee wrote:
@chrystaltree wrote:
I don't know what Christmas the OP is talking about. The one we celebrate with our trees, cookies, candy canes, presents, shopping, Turkey's etc etc is not a religious celebration by any stretch of the imagination. It's a secular or civic holiday that isn't limited to "believers". There is the religious holiday but that's not what our ho ho ho Christmas is about. I'm not in favor of stores opening on Christmas because it is a major holiday and people should be allowed to enjoy it with their families and friends. Yes, people who work in hospitals and firefighters and policemen and other workers that are essential have to work. There's no way around that. But department stores and malls do not fall into that category. Those workers should not be required to service shoppers on Christmas or Easter. Which is also another holiday that is both religious and secular. We don't fill Easter baskets or buy marshmallow Peeps as a demonstration of our faith. We do it because Easter is secular holiday full of fun, food, family and a ham dinner.
Christmas and Easter are religious holidays, meant to commemorate the birth of Jesus and Jesus' resurrection, respectively. They have been declared legal holidays so people can take the day off to go to church or however they celebrate.
Many people in this country who are not Christians do not celebrate either of those two holidays; they are just another day.
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Correct there are a lot of people not celebrating those days....but we all are being forced to close businesses or else some people protest the businesses. And it hard to find a place to go out to dinner for the evening. Can't do anything. In some towns the whole town shuts down.
When one religion flows over on those that are not part of that religion that is down right wrong.
Oh well in time world religions will be ban. Would be part of a action that would help stop wars.
Pagan do not take the masses to war actions. Notice that?
Where do you live? I live in the south and they close for everything because of religion and there are all kinds of places open on Christmas even if it is just part of the day. The US is 80% Christian whereas Australia is only 61% Christian and it is the LAW in many towns and terrorities in Australia that businesses stay closed on Christmas, It is even the law they be closed on Sundays in some towns. They couldn't open if they wanted to. There is ONE day here where a good amount of stores are closed, and some stores even open later in the evening and many restaurants, movie theatres and super markets are opened the whole day. No one is going to die over this.
And it is actually a myth that relgion is the major cause of the wars in the world. The Encylopedia of Wars shows that out of the 1,763 wars in human history, only 123 were religious in nature. That is a little under 7%. The main cause was opposition to govt, economic, idealogical, political or social systems.
I am an Atheist and I can deal with one day of the year where I can't shop at Target. I can still go to a movie or out to eat if I wish to.
And people aren't being forced to close down there stores. They have that option just as those have to option to boycott or protesting. Those are the things you endure for leaving in a free society.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
JFK
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