Sentences with phrase «secular holiday»

Let's capitalize it since it is such a special secular holiday.

As for Christmas, it is as secular a holiday in the U.S. as they come.

The Catholic Church, of course, transformed many secular holidays in its day into celebrations of aspects of the faith.

Red - colored glass aligns with the sun's arc across Gilbert Court at noon on secular holidays that the artist considers significant, such as Sir Isaac Newton's birthday on January 4.

Though the commerce - exhausted secular holiday is past for another year, on December 28 Christmas is far from over.

Until the church of our time finds alternate, graceful ways to mark the Christian life of adults, the sad secular holidays of mid-life crisis - retirement, aging, and finally death and dying - will cast a spell over the lives of Christians.

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.

Next to her office door now stands a «Festivus pole,» which she used in December for an office party to celebrate the fictional secular holiday depicted on Seinfeld.

At least «Love the Coopers» has the nerve to even bring up the topic of faith in a mainstream and primarily secular holiday film.

Some public and private schools may only allow secular references to winter holidays, while some faith - based schools may prefer not to include secular or popular mythological references to Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, or other secular holiday characters.

Earth Day, Hayes said, is essentially the only global secular holiday — except if you consider Christmas to have become entirely secular — it remains a wonderful opportunity to highlight environmental issues and build networks around them for the rest of the year.

Canadian Thanksgiving is a purely secular holiday.

We celebrate Christmas and Easter as secular holidays and don't care if you want to celebrate your saviors birthday.

Xmas is now a secular holiday, a foundation of our capitalist society - a way to churn money into the economic machine.

This will be our secular holiday devoid of Christianity for the growing masses wanting this.

Steven T. Schlicht's family (pictured above) are among the nonbelievers who shared their secular holiday traditions with iReport.

Christmas can be vexing because it is both a religious and secular holiday.

Christmas is a secular holiday for many of us, and stripping the jesus stuff away makes it no less important as a celebration of family and goodwill and reflection... The christians don't own our winter holiday just because of the name...

Thanksgiving was historically a religious observation to give thanks to God, but is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.

We should still have secular holidays, like President's Day, MLK Day, Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Columbus Day, Independence Day, Labor Day etc.).

With the possible exception of Christmas, which is arguably more of a secular holiday these days than a purely religious one (or at least equally so,) there are no religious holidays on the public calendar.

Christmas is very much a secular holiday for many, they know what its supposed to represent, but all it is, is presents and family for many.

Not to attack a religious belief or a secular holiday (that shouldn't be secular any longer.)

You can say all day that it is a secular holiday and does not have much of a christian prescence all you want, but if any christian saw you celebrate it or one of your athiest friends saw you, they would believe you were a christian who believes in Jesus no matter how much commercialism is in it.

Lay off our secular holidays.

Therefore, Christmas, or as I call it, the hijacked winter solstice, is a secular holiday and always has been.

Jeanie, federal holidays are secular holidays.

It didn't matter if it was a Jewish or secular holiday but next to that turkey was a beef brisket that had been sitting in the oven braising for hours on end.

While Valentine's Day started as a religious holiday — in fact some denominations still celebrate the feast of St. Valentine — it has evolved into a secular holiday.

Jesus Christ can be seen as a mere historical character and the annual marking of his birth may be today considered a godless, secular holiday, much like Canada Day.

I have always thought of it as a secular holiday, but some see it as having Christian ties and opt out.