There have been many great suggestions on how to deal with but
giving religious holidays to groups under self doubt or force is not the answer.
Not exact matches
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.
Those educated «scientists» that the
religious dunces seem to hate (due to all those pesky facts they keep spouting), are the people that
gave us, the steam engine that started the industrial revolution; they
gave us vaccines to cure disease and electricity so we have light where there was once darkness and they invented the jet engine so that the flat Earthers can fly to see their loved ones on those
religious holidays that are so important to them... Not to mention they invented computers and the Internet that allows the right wing Bible thumpers to post their uneducated, mindless, factless opinion on this Web Site.
Easter is
given an egg or bunny theme but otherwise Jewish, Christian and Muslim
religious holidays haven't merited mention yet — Christmas and Hanukah get «Season's Greetings» treatment.
I understand that sometimes
religious holidays overlap such as Chanukkah and Christmas and consideration has to be
given to everyone.
If your kids have school of your
religious holiday take them out stop trying to force others to
give you what you want because you don't like the schools to be neutral.
Give students Thanksgiving off (US
holiday — non
religious), Christmas, New Years, Martin Luther King day, the two Muslim days and find a Jewish day or two that works best for that religion as well.
Why don't we
give the Spanish community the
religious holidays they may celebrate, or the Jewish community, or the European community?
If we who had to
give up what was normal for century why should we now allow other
religious holidays.
If you ask me, in public schools no
holiday should be
given simply for
religious reasons — this includes Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and all other religions.
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.
In regards to
religious holidays, all students and employees should be
given a set number of personal days each year, to be used at their choosing.
† Just because a Blind Christian has the need to feel as if they posses a traditional family lifestyle,
religious holidays where the
give their kids chocolate eggs, dvd gifts on christmas of movies full of women acting as the equals of men (Against the bible), a lack of understanding culture, and the feeling of belonging, does not mean all people need / want / or feel that way.
In my humble opinion,
give no «
religious» based
holidays at all to school children.
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.
I am a libertarian agnostic but presidents are allowed to have
religious views and
give them as part of a
holiday message.
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...
During the school year look for opportunities to connect with those teachers and
give them encouraging information about how they can address
religious holidays, their students»
religious liberties, and helpful articles from the Gateways to Better Education website.
In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the
religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the
holiday gift -
giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7
A huge day in the US for gift
giving, even with gifts that don't directly relate to the
religious holiday.
A schedule that designates in which parent's home the minor child will reside on
given dates, especially designating notable dates such as
holidays, school
holidays,
religious holidays, vacation, birthdays and dates of significance to the family (or a formula or method for determining the schedule);