Greg Almighty can change Sabbath observances and the meaning of the ten commandments but you can't say 12,000 is many.
Brumar Lover of God murmurs only Christians should be able to say Merry Christmas or Happy Easter and non-Christians can only eat rotten chicken from the Airdrie food bank on Thanksgiving.
In this type of theocracy it is all about control and shouting others down.
"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride—just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation." Ayn Rand
| From: Brumar89 | 11/21/2011 11:20:57 AM | | 1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) of 41392 | | | I really hope our SI atheists and agnostics don't plan on taking part in Christmas celebrations.
When someone says Merry Christmas to them, how will they reply? Hurl a curse back? Some stupid remark about Zombie Jesus, Flying Spaghetti Monsters or Invisible Friends?
And for that matter, there shouldn't be any atheists or agnostics celebrating Thanksgiving either. After all, this is a holiday to give thanks to God for our blessings. How could an atheist possibly take part? There's no one to be thankful toward. Except themselves .... for being so superior.
The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying . . . stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decorations put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only “commercial greed” could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle." Ayn Rand |
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