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Census data would suggest that a new hispanic federal holiday might be more likely...from what I read Miami, New York City and Los Angeles already do. I don't care to begin with...
I mean, we are talking about a man who was killed, and then a couple of days later his body reanimated and he asked his followers to drink his blood and eat his flesh.......
I used to work for a company whose owners were Jews.
We had Yom Kippur, Rosh Hoshannah, Passover, ect... off and were paid for those holidays.
I doubt that many of the employees were Jews and neither am I, but we didn't mind.
The company our daughter and son in law worked for, he still does, gives good Friday off. 'The same with our grandson in laws company, but that is totally different than it being a national holiday..
you hit it: your schools do celebrate as well as Jewish holidays, can you imagine how many holidays would have to be included if we,as a country made it a federal holiday? As for Christmas, that is not only a religious holiday but probably the biggest family festive day of the year. It is celebrated by almost everyone regardless of their religious beliefs. Those who don't celebrate it are only those trying to push their agenda.
I'm not sure what is the point of celebrating Christmas if one isn't recognizing or honoring the birth of Jesus Christ.
Feeding corporate cash registers, cutting down trees, and using other trees to wrap the stuff that you took home in exchange for feeding the corporate cash register is rather hollow, if that is the only thing that Christmas means, IMO.
I don't think we need "more" holidays... I don't think we need "4-day work weeks".... I don't think we need "3 month paid vacations"...
Nobody asked for 4 day workweek or 3 months paid vacation like many European countries. I just asked why Good Friday has not yet been a national holiday.
People overwork in America, and it is bad. Life is short
Um, but his/her religious beliefs do not trump separation of church and state. Good Friday has particular RELIGIOUS meanings and no secular meaning that I am aware of. Should we have Rosh Hashanah as a federal holiday as well? Or a Muslim holiday? I would bet the OP would yell and scream about those, if we did.
Why would we need a non-Christian religious holiday in America? We only have 2% Jews and <1% Muslims.
NYC has the entire week off marked as "Spring Recess"
Sorry, Christmas is NOT secular. It is a christian holiday. It has also been a federal holiday long enough that it will stay that way. I see no reason to change that.
I would ask, why is it christians who always tell us that christmas is a secular holiday? I have never once met a jewish person, or a muslim, or an agnostic, or a member of ANY other religion who said so.
Sorry, Christmas is NOT secular. It is a christian holiday. It has also been a federal holiday long enough that it will stay that way. I see no reason to change that.
I would ask, why is it christians who always tell us that christmas is a secular holiday? I have never once met a jewish person, or a muslim, or an agnostic, or a member of ANY other religion who said so.
No Christians have said that Christmas is a secular holiday. It is usually the Atheists who say that and tries to make all Christian holidays into secular ones (even though they know by heart it is a Christian holiday, even by dictionary definition).
Some Christians in America try to say Christian holidays/laws/principles are "secular" just to get away with Separation of Church and State.
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