Anyone who
thinks religious holidays are celebrated in public schools has not been in public schools for a long time.
Not exact matches
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.
Trump's promise that «everyone will say Merry Christmas» when he's president appeals to those who
think being wished «happy
holidays» by a store clerk is a form of
religious oppression (and who apparently remain unconcerned about how Trump's mandate will be enforced upon those of other faiths).
An atheist hates the
thought of Christmas because of its
religious inflection but will celebrate the
holiday with its Pagan purpose.
«I
think that we really can provide a positive alternative to
religious holidays that are not meaningful because of their
religious content.»
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.
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
think that much of the reason colleges have days off during what may have historically ben
religious holidays is because many people would simply skip class.
They seem to
think their country was somehow founded on their own religion (it wasn't), and, while they'd complain to no end if their kids were required to attend school on Dec 25, they have no problem forcing Muslim students to attend school on their
religious holidays.
So Muslims want days off from school for their
religious holidays???, when the moderate Muslims start to profess their outrage at the radical Muslims then we'll
think about it.
I
think that, in keeping with the separation of church and state (which is a good policy, I
think), we should not observe ANY
religious holidays, including Good Friday, which is widely observed by public schools throughout the US.
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.
I
think we have come to a point and time where we shouldn't recognize any
religious holiday's in our school systems, federal facilities, state facilities, etc..
I personally don't like the idea of having any
religious holidays off since I
think they shouldn't mix, but if you allow some, you allow others.
Unfortunately I don't
think there are enough days on the school calendar to celebrate every
religious holiday.
Honestly i would say no to the
holiday's but not for a
religious thing because kids now days are already stupid enough and being failed by the education system they need every day they can get to learn something... If anything they should be taking away all the current
holiday's so... That's what i
think...
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.
His Father and Many felt my husband was not going to get away with his defiance to the agenda they had and started using harsher ways to keep him from what he was demanding It eventually earned him a nickname the retaliation and left grown men crying when they had to try and deal with him Christmas 2003 it was
thought o0ur deacon came up with the perfect plan by claiming
Religious need over my husbands refusal to work the 2003 down week My Husband Decided he was going to Ruin his life in response to making him work both the Ireland vacation and The
holidays, I told him before the Ireland trip if he wanted to go he could have just taken our offer in 2001.
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.
I actually don't have any current plans for this Sunday (although I will admit that since I'm not particularly
religious the
holiday is more about Easter egg hunts and Reeses chocolate eggs to me...) but I
think my roommates and I might make a nice dinner for us to eat together.
Pretty sure everyone has Easter Friday off in Austria, but then again it's more of a
religious country I
think so we tend to get those
holidays always off and everything closes.
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.