Sentences with phrase «religious holidays as»

In some cases, the agreement will also provide for alternating religious holidays as well as the children's breaks from school throughout the year.

Muslims do have religious holidays as do Jews but for some reason -LRB-?)

I'm sure they all have religious holidays as well.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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 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.

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.

From a religious perspective, the thing that really undermined Christmas was not liberals or atheists; it was the many many Christians who tried (and keep trying) to use the holiday to make as much money as possible.

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?

EEOC is trying to make the case that while the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses would never accept employment as a gift wrapper continuously wrapping birthday and holiday gifts, their JW Client's personal religious beliefs allowed her to do so, thus the only legal issue is their client's personal religious belief against wearing the Santa Hat and Apron.

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.

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...

We don't buy into the very conservative religious opinion that sees Halloween as an evil holiday.

There are a lot of holiday customs which are also referred to as pagan even though they lack a religious element, or developed entirely from Christian elements.

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).

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.

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??

The problem with trying to serve all religious holidays, is that the students will have shorter summer breaks as they will have to make up all the missed school days due to recognizing every religion out there... because that's what will have to happen to please everyone.

As prayer is not allowed then religious holidays should also be prohibited.

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.

As an atheist I do not believe any religious holidays in school.

Here's a thought — so long as schools are «public», e.g. run by the government, which is supposed to NOT favor any religion, how about we not have ANY religious holidays.

Why don't we do away with public school system recognition of all holidays pertaining to religion, and instead just allow students to be absent from class without penalty if they wish to observe a religious holiday, as many colleges and universities do?

† 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.

At the same time, individuals (or children) should have the right to miss holidays on a «religious observation» ground, provided it adheres to a prescribed date and not simply as an excuse to «not attend school on Mondays.»

As an atheist I would of course welcome a «freedom from religion» holiday but I am willing to fore go that as long as the religious peddlers do the samAs an atheist I would of course welcome a «freedom from religion» holiday but I am willing to fore go that as long as the religious peddlers do the samas long as the religious peddlers do the samas the religious peddlers do the same.

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.

Some atheist activists are trying to seize the holidays as a time to build bridges with faith groups, while other active unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.

About a third of Americans (36 %) who identified as evangelical said they sometimes drank alcohol, with adults who attend church once a week or more less likely to drink at all (38 %) than those who attend once or twice a month (53 %), only on religious holidays (55 %), or rarely (59 %).

The predominantly Buddhist Island nation marks every full moon as a key religious holiday.

I am a libertarian agnostic but presidents are allowed to have religious views and give them as part of a holiday message.

We must remember that Paul, the narrator, is a biased party in the dispute and that he uses the event to bolster his argument against persons in Galatia who would like gentile converts to adopt such Jewish customs as circumcision, religious holidays and dietary restrictions.

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.

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.

By accepting and participating in an obvious religious holiday, but then claim to not believe in anything associated with that event accept the commercialism it brings, exposes that person as someone who is confused with thier own feelings.

The fact is that holiday was never intended as a religious holiday, it was more about community and family.

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.

This year, a Maryland school district decided to remove even a reference to «Christmas» in the school calendar — as though the reference amounted to religious oppression and removal would make people forget what holiday comes round every 25th of December.

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.

As a child forced to eat dates at a variety of Jewish holiday lessons in Religious School, I always thought I hated the little sticky mummy fingers.

While the study focuses on religious and holiday rituals as important in affirming and cementing marriages, we think everyday rituals are just as important and show the love you have for one another.

From making crafts to cooking favorite treats and meals, there are numerous ways — both religious and nonreligious — to celebrate this special holiday together as a family.

Susan Friedman and Marc Primack of Wilmette, parents of Joel and Hilary, have decided to keep Hanukkah as the minor religious holiday that it is.

Nana Gyan Apenteng said instead of the youth and other members of society actively involving themselves in the observation of important holidays such as Republic Day, Independence Day and AU Day and deliberating on their significance, they are pulled into religious engagements on such days.

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Owing to religious holidays and Sept. 11 emerging as a national day of reflection, the primary will be held on Sept. 13, another Thursday.