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You guys sure ruined this thread with facts lol
You guys sure ruined this thread with facts lol
Ok, so here's a blog about the displacement of some navity scenes at a small park: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/atheist-messages-have-displaced-most-of-santa-monicas-park-nativity-scenes/2011/12/13/gIQAm3C0rO_story.html
Although, I'm a bit puzzled as to why an atheist would have a sign saying "Happy Solstice" since the Solstice (Yule) is a religious holiday for pagans. Saying "Rawr, you shouldn't celebrate a religious Christmas, let's go celebrate another religious holiday that we'll pretend isn't religious" is kind of... dumb. Either that, or the blogger is equating pagans with atheists- which is even more dumb.
You guys sure ruined this thread with facts lol
Would that more threads around here were "ruined" thus. The result would be a better Fedora Lounge.
People being people always do that.
What I meant was, I approve of that kind of "ruining" (in quotes). It is, in fact, constructive.
You guys sure ruined this thread with facts lol
Ok, so here's a blog about the displacement of some navity scenes at a small park: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/atheist-messages-have-displaced-most-of-santa-monicas-park-nativity-scenes/2011/12/13/gIQAm3C0rO_story.html
Although, I'm a bit puzzled as to why an atheist would have a sign saying "Happy Solstice" since the Solstice (Yule) is a religious holiday for pagans. Saying "Rawr, you shouldn't celebrate a religious Christmas, let's go celebrate another religious holiday that we'll pretend isn't religious" is kind of... dumb. Either that, or the blogger is equating pagans with atheists- which is even more dumb.
It's because the average person out doing nothing but griping/protesting instead of going to work/school doesn't know their head from their seat-filling posterior. My guess.
@ HepKitty" Deceived? Hmmm. No.
Not sure where you came up with a "cheap shot" in there - no such thing was done.
As for other beliefs being represented, have at it. Display all the holiday icons you wish - that's fine with me. I'm not "religious" in the sense I don't believe in churches and much of what passes for organized religion. I prefer to keep it personal and leave it at that. I wish others would too actually.
Official holidays aren't religion. Every religion (within reason/law) is free to practice here. I didn't realize that a holiday was needed to practice religion?
It's because the average person out doing nothing but griping/protesting instead of going to work/school doesn't know their head from their seat-filling posterior. My guess.
as for holidays, banks and govt functions all shut down for... xmas. do they shut down for hannukah or ramadan?
of course not, no one likes to be deceived. and as for "keeping it personal," you certainly gave a lot of info on your personal beliefs
ok so I should have put the "cheap shot" comment after this quote of yours:
did you mean Christians protesting or other groups protesting? either way it's a pretty nasty thing to say
The Xmas break/holiday is used and enjoyed by many faiths. At least with my friends, family and coworkers. Not a problem I've ever heard of before...
Did you see what I was replying to with that? If not, go on back and have a look.
It may just be my New England ancestry showing, but personally, I don't think any religious holidays should be federally recognized. People ought to be given a set number of days each year they can take off from work for whatever holiday they care to observe, and keep government recognition completely out of it. That'd save a lot of fuss every year.
And again, it may be my ancestry showing, but I was raised in a culture where the specifics of your religious beliefs, or lack of such, was something you kept to yourself -- you didn't beat your neighbor over with it either way, and you didn't insist your neighbor believe what you believed. Seems to still make sense to me.
Speaking as a regular churchgoer, I must question the sincerity of the charges in the WaPo of conspiracy. As an applicant for a LPFM broadcast license back in 1999 I do know that there was an organised movement bu evangelical Christian groups to appropriate the expensive engineering studies done by putative secular broadcasters to claim as many channels as possible for their FM translators, which broadcast canned satellite programming rather than the local programming envisioned for the LPFM service, and thus crowd out any secular broadcasters.
possibly because the solstice is an observable astronomical event, and people do like to have reasons to celebrate. I don't think that getting insulting here is going to help. I mean, is there any evidence that can be observed by the entire world of any deity's birthday?