Sentences with phrase «celebrate religious holidays»

Other families celebrate birthdays, mother's day and father's day, while others celebrate religious holidays and ceremonies.

Couples who share religious holiday rituals have more marital satisfaction than those who celebrate religious holidays separately.

Easter  — Many people in the area celebrate religious holidays such as Easter.

None of the states or school districts celebrate any religious holidays.

Public schools have Spring Breaks and Winter Breaks, and do not celebrate religious holidays.

They are free to worship, they celebrate their religious holidays and those holidays are national holidays that are acknowledged and respected by the entire population.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

Boo hoo that you want to celebrate a religious holiday secularly amd boo boo if people still actually call it a religious holiday.

they're crying for the right to celebrate a religious holiday secularly, where.

Unfortunately I don't think there are enough days on the school calendar to celebrate every religious holiday.

I am a Christian and I feel I'm being discriminated against by atheists when I'm told I can't celebrate a religious holiday or erect a display.

«We appreciated the positive initiative; however, we need to consider that not every religion celebrates their religious holidays openly,» the chair of the Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Communion of Churches said during a press conference.

When we arrived at Buenos Aires, Argentina, we were surprised to find that the locals were celebrating a religious holiday that honored St. Bridget of Ireland and Chris Matthews of MSNBC.

When celebrating a religious holiday, I like to celebrate the real meaning.

It's time once again to celebrate the religious holiday named for the beloved patron saints of Ireland which we all know and love as St. Patrick's Day.

The siblings are German Mennonites who celebrate a religious holiday called Himmelfahrt; in this year, the holiday fell on a Thursday.

Not exact matches

Sure, there are the major holidays that are celebrated worldwide for religious reasons, such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Easter.

Rather on focus on the holiday's religious origins, the Nazi version celebrated the supposed heritage of the Aryan race, the label Nazis gave to «racially acceptable» members of the German racial state.

The religious holidays of all ethnic groups were celebrated, and even small local - language newspapers and TV channels were financially supported by the state.

Many non-Christians celebrate the holiday season, call it Christmas, and sing religious Christmas carols — because it's nice music they learned in their childhood.

Christ, as time has many different names from many different cultures and the christians forcibly converted people to stop them from celebrating THEIR OWN religious holidays that fell at the same time of years millenia ago.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate their spiritual growth in that way, Happy Holidays to those who do not believe, May all others celebrating their religious beliefs have a joyous occasion.

It has NOTHING to do with Santa and Religion, it has everything to do with the fact that JWs do not celebrate ANY holidays including, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day or their own birthdays - it is part of their religion and they should not be forced to wear ANY symbol of ANY holiday whether secular or religious.

If her religious beliefs do not allow her to celebrate holiday's such as Christmas then why take a job as a «gift wrapper» at Christmas time?

Senior CDU member Wolfgang Bosbach told newspaper Bild that people can celebrate whatever religious holiday they want, but «whether the state should also protect non-Christian holidays with legal regulation in future is a different issue entirely.»

This atmosphere, according to the same scholars, will likely alter the way the religious holiday is celebrated.

Well, if CHRISTMAS is a religious holiday celebrating resurrection of CHRIST the CHRISTMAS TREE is religious as well...

It specifically said you can celebrate the holidays without the religious cult trappings.

In other words, they're dumb enough to get in a self righteous name calling uproar for the simple sake of offending amd being offended over a religious holiday they don't beleive in anyways but still want to celebrate.

An atheist hates the thought of Christmas because of its religious inflection but will celebrate the holiday with its Pagan purpose.

We do not celebrate Jewish holidays (except maybe in New York City), nor any of the Indian, Chinese, African, or even other Christian holidays (such as the Eastern Orthodox holidays; there are many more religious holidays on the Christian calendar than Christmas and Easter).

BUT I do believe in separation of «church» and state (another founding principal of our country)... so NO religious holiday should result in a day off from school not even CHRISTMAS or PASSOVER etc. if you celebrate the holiday don't send your kid to school and they can catch up later.

If you do, you are simply celebrating the «religious» holidays with all Christians, and Christians will be thankful that you do.

Let's hope they don't celebrate one of their religious holidays and bring one to school or to the new mosque near the World Trade Center in New York City.

Every religious holiday should be celebrated and days off from school provided.

Why don't we give the Spanish community the religious holidays they may celebrate, or the Jewish community, or the European community?

My parents were not religious, but they celebrated Christmas and Easter holidays because the family gathered; the huge majority of Americans have this cultural background.

If we celebrate all religions equally fine, but we are not going to celebrate holidays of a group of people who hate american life and ignore other religious groups who we coexist with peacefully!

If you want to celebrate a Muslim religious holiday, bring the Christianity back to Christmas and Easter.

Anyone who thinks religious holidays are celebrated in public schools has not been in public schools for a long time.

Some people use it perhaps in this context, but wheni say say Christmas is a religious holiday in which pagans amd Christians celebrated it, it means that people of varying faiths celebrated it.

What if you are Atheist and your child gets bullied by other kids at school because they don't celebrate Christmas... because of course, you aren't «normal» if you don't celebrate a specificially religious holiday, right?

They're taking that fight into the marketplace and it is a marketplace reality that many people celebrate Christmas for other than religious reasons or they celebrate around the Christmas season but celebrate some other holiday.

Jones - Abid is a Jehovah's Witness, and her religious practices prohibit her from celebrating holidays like Christmas, according to the lawsuit.

There isn't a thing wrong with celebrating holidays whether they're religious or not.

Those that wish to celebrate it as a «religious holiday» are more than welcome too, those that devoted to something that truly isn't scriptual, will take the time to celebrate it.

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.

But let me just say, for all of those who celebrate this as a religious holiday, please don't take that statement personally.

My family isn't religious at all, but Christmas is my favorite holiday, traditionally celebrated in Finland at the time of year when the darkest day of the year had passed.

The cultural and religious holiday is celebrated throughout the world with the tradition of wearing green, religious ceremonies, parades, and festivals.