Sentences with phrase «for religious holidays of»

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Brooks also reminds Schultz that Trump once proposed a boycott of the coffee chain when many claimed that its seasonal red cups weren't merry enough for Christmas — even though the holiday cups have never included the words «Merry Christmas» or invoked any religious imagery.

Several workers also told the Guardian that they were fired from the factory just before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began at the end of May, and rehired a month later in what they believe was an effort to make them ineligible for a religious holiday bonus that is required by Indonesian law.

The demand of gold reflected over the next several months and characterized by the purchase of the metal for cultural celebrations and religious holidays, I refer to as the Love Trade.

Though the geopolitical makeup of each Arab Spring country is different, Shea and other religious freedom scholars say that a pious holiday like Easter presents an opportunity for anti-Christian groups to seek out worshipers.

For Jews, a prayer over wine is part of the sabbath service, sabbath meals, all religious holidays and special religious events such as weddings and circumcisions.

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.

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.

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.

They should ban any kind of acknowledgment of religious holidays, including Christmas, or make sure there are NO school or government events for EVERY religion.

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If you have problems in allowing religious holidays for one religion, then you can't have holidays for any of the others.

In my experience, school children of non-Christian faiths are excused from school for religious holidays.

If you don't think winter break is specifically built for christian religious holidays, then why don't we change the break to be a celebration of the New Year starting on Jan 1.

I can't believe that we are actually considering this, I'm not fond of all the holidays the schools take as it is, simply because it interferes with the taching schedules, not for any religious reasons, that said, since when do we care what the other countries believe their rights??

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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.

For a public school to add a holiday for a specific religious festival (regardless of religion) would violate the the separation clauFor a public school to add a holiday for a specific religious festival (regardless of religion) would violate the the separation claufor a specific religious festival (regardless of religion) would violate the the separation clause.

I also note that most of us use our «religious holiday» for selfish reasons and certainly not for any purpose unto God.

However, there are a limited number of school days and the children simply can not be off for every religious holiday that comes along.

How does less than 1 % of this countries» resdients justify a religious holiday for the other 99 %?

But we now have gone to «winter break» and «spring break», because people felt that giving children time off from school for religious holidays was pretty darn close to violating the sacred seperation of church and state.

The observance of religious holidays should be allowed for and recognized, but not on a «wholesale» basis.

Schools USED TO schedule days (or periods of time) off for religious holidays, i.e. - Christmas and Easter.

There should be NO school days off for observance of any religious holiday, period.

If we took every holiday for every religious group in America and gave time of for each one it would make ths school and work year about ten days a year.

And as for Jewish holidays, do nt get me started, a huge proportion of jews do nt practice their faith, and some are religious two days a year.

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In the past, I've bemoaned the tendency for some Christians to confront store clerks during Christmastime, demanding that they play religious Christmas music over the PA and say «Merry Christmas» instead of «Happy Holidays.»

Harris - Shapiro suggests that the best way for Jews to «combat» Messianic Judaism is to strengthen the religious institution at the center of Jewish life: the home, with its weekly Shabbat worship and observance of other Jewish holidays.

In fact, for Americans who practice contemporary Paganism, Halloween is one of the two most important religious holidays of the year.

Just as candidate Trump pledged to say «Merry Christmas» in his White House, rather than President Obama's tepid «Happy Holidays,» and just as he promised to choose an anti-Roe justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Trump's «We want God» assured religious voters that he would not apologize for his faith nor deny that it would play a role in his decision - making.

The company supports a slate of Christian interests, from Oral Roberts University to the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, and is known for taking out overtly religious newspaper ads around the holidays.

Under attack now is any display of Santa Claus, Rudolph, Christmas trees, poinsettias, holiday lights, and even the colors red and green» all of which are condemned for being «religious,» and the very worst kind of religion, meaning Christian.

But a with BS - NN struggling for ratings, I'm sure they'll say Jesus was a black alien from Sirius, but they won't say jack about other religious figures whose holidays are also happening around this time of the year.

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

I feel like I haven't done much baking on the blog as of late, so when I saw that coconut pound cake was a popular food offering on religious holidays in Cambodia, I was psyched for the opportunity to adapt a pound cake recipe from a gluten - free cookbook I just picked up the other day.

I am not the most religious person on this earth, but I am spiritual, and I do believe that it was my complete and utter surrender of my holidays to give to my December birth families, that really was whole - hearted, no agenda, just sheer, utter love for these incredible two women who I feel to this day are my sisters, this small sacrifice that saved our family in some spiritual ways...

They may also love the magic of holiday lights and music and perhaps even gain an appreciation for spiritual traditions related to their family's religious faith.

But his push to change curriculum oversight regulations for yeshivas and other religious schools — while seemingly esoteric — largely held up the finalization of a deal on Friday, the drop - dead day to get the budget done before a holiday week.

For the first time, the City School District of New Rochelle has placed a Muslim religious holiday on the official school calendar.

In the Judaeo - Christian and Islamic religious traditions, fasting is an act of observance, atonement, penance, self - control, or preparation for rituals or holidays.

Jack Bernstein was a rarity, an American Zionist who «returned» to Israel, not for a holiday but to live and die in Israel building a Jewish Nicholas Soteri reflects on the early religious controversies of Eastern Europe, focusing in particular on an often overlooked kingdom, the Khazar.

Holidays There's an annual post-holiday baby boom 9 months after Christmas Internet searches for «sex» hit a peak during the holiday season, which Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among

Having attended a miniscule religious university in Southern California, however, the extent of my collegiate rebellion was sadly not dissimilar from what most have experienced by sophomore year of high school; exclusive, clique - driven social gatherings that involved decorating holiday - themed cookies followed by a rousing group chorus of «Blessed be Your Name» dominated my social calendar for the better part of 4 years.

Marking the birth of Jesus, Christmas is a religious holiday for Chri...

They recommend workshops for educators regarding the appropriate place of religious holidays in the schools.

Haynes, a member of a coalition of educators who created guidelines for religious holidays in public schools, suggests asking these five questions before planning religious holidays in public schools: Is this activity designed in any way to either promote or inhibit religion?

OCR has spent thousands of pounds this year advertising for new markers on buses and in the pages of cruise holiday magazines to meet the demand, particularly in subjects such as history, English literature, sociology and religious studies.

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.