Sentences with phrase «religious holidays become»
Religious holidays become torture to them, they just can bear it and often pretend they are enjoying themselves.
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Any religious holiday runs the risk of doing that, and, no matter how secular it has become, you can't spell Christmas without Christ.
And yes, regrettably Christmas has in many cases become a commercial holiday without religious observance.
Plato, for example, calls the religious holiday an anapausa, a breathing spell.16 We see it in children's play where a new space and time are set apart for the duration of the play experience — the back yard becoming a jungle or the Western prairie where the Indians and the cowboys are fighting.
Add to that the fact that Christmas has become less of a religious day, and more of a commercial (secular) day, and we definitely don't take off from work or school for any Christian religious holidays anymore.
Let us proclaim September 19th (Talk like a Pirate Day) to be an official FSM holiday and demand our equal religious rights and have it become a school holiday too!
I am not one of the people you are addressing, but you know as well as I do that both Christmas and Easter have become secular holidays as well and MANY people the world over celebrate it without the religious connotations.
Easter has become more than just a religious holiday in the West; it's Big Business.
During our years abroad, the kids visited 16 countries on four continents, they became fluent in French, developed friendships with kids from other countries, often who did not speak the same language, they participated in multiple religious and national holidays, and they developed a food palate that most adults would be in awe of (can you say fish eyes and liver pâté?!).
The estimates are surrounded by images and data that put Christmas celebrations in the historical context of Charles Dickens» Victorian England, the dawn of the industrial revolution when religious, social and consumer traditions became the foundations of the holiday most Americans know today.