Sentences with phrase «many religious holidays»

Personal days can cover things like the illness of a child, a death in the family, jury duty, military obligations, or religious holidays.

Of course, things like extended illnesses, a death in the family, or religious holidays can always force an employee to miss work.

Any religious holiday runs the risk of doing that, and, no matter how secular it has become, you can't spell Christmas without Christ.

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.

But as the 140 - mile journey can take four hours by car in traffic, Uber is betting that Romanians would rather fly there, especially this weekend, which is a long weekend in Romania, with banks closed on Monday for a religious holiday.

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

Additionally, all major religious holidays are nationally observed.

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.

Christmas is no longer a religious holiday, if it ever was.

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.

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

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.

Still, even letting non-believers know that they are not alone, especially during the religious holiday season, is beyond the pale for many religious people.

Religious holidays have long been a venue for terrorist attacks against all religious groups in the Middle East and North Africa.

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.»

x / mas is about Santa, Reindeer, gifts, lights, decorations, party's... not a religious holiday for me.

However, atheism has no religious holidays.

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.

Silly old palm Sunday, X-mas, other Religious holidays that require the stripping or destruction of a tree or bush or fruit... what ever.

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.

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

I understand that sometimes religious holidays overlap such as Chanukkah and Christmas and consideration has to be given to everyone.

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

how rude of all of us not to observe YOUR religious holiday.

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.

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

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

«I think that we really can provide a positive alternative to religious holidays that are not meaningful because of their religious content.»

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.

In civilized States, like New York, all athletic contests take into account Religious Holidays and do not force young people to make such a choice.

Never mind that the religious holiday called Christmas has been a political and cultural icon from its inception.

The rest of the world isn't going to stop, nor should it, while they're observing their religious holidays.

Christmas is more than a religious holiday — it is a time for everyone, not just Christians, and I am happy that atheist group had the balls to put that up.

To something else you said... «Christmas is more than a religious holiday — it is a time for everyone, not just Christians...» I don't think that any Christian would disagree with you.

Religious holidays become torture to them, they just can bear it and often pretend they are enjoying themselves.

If you'd like to use a religious holiday to keep your kid home from school, then you should be able to call your child in sick.

It would be nice if we could observe everyone's religious holidays.

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

If they observe Muslim holidays then they must observe all religious holidays.

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

We only get one major Christian holiday off and I don't recall any Jewish, Hindu, Buddist or any other religious holiday as a day off school.

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).

You either close school for every religious holiday or none.

If there are any religious holidays in our public school calendars then they should be removed.

Not to mention Christmas Break is just one of the Christian religious holidays.

Has some possible shortcomings regarding what religious holidays are «major» but I like the idea.

It isn't possible to allow a national holiday for every religious holiday.

The United States is not a christian nation, therefore, we should respect the religious holidays of major minority religions as well as the christian ones.