ha ha... I find it really ironic that you end this with See you Sunday? because to someone that didn't know there was a party on Sunday it could totally be construed totally different since Sunday is the Christian Holy Day. :)
That didn't make sense, but I'm sure you can figure out what I mean. ;)
No...I totally get what you're saying. In fact, when I ended it that way, I thought, "Ha. People who don't know about the party will wonder what the heck that's about." :)
Well put. I think this is a good slant on all the PC crap going on out there. The government doesn't want anything having to do with christianity in what they do, even though the country was founded on it, but they don't mind continuing to take advantage of the fact that they still stick to the christian calendar and holidays as the federal standby. I wonder how the people trying to take God off our money and out of... well, everything, would feel if they had to start working on Christmas and other christian holidays often given the day off.
Actually, the government wasn't really founded on Christianity, at least not in any but the most vacuous of senses. Certainly some of the founder's were Christian, but not all of them were, and even the ones that were would probably not be considered to be Christians by todays evangelicals. Granted, the colonies were founded on particular religions, but they weren't all founded on the same religion, and again, not all of them were founded on religion either. In particular, Rhode Island was founded on the idea of true religious freedom, and thankfully it is that attitude towards religion that the founders of our country enshrined into the Constitution. The Constitution clearly says that "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or the free exercise thereof." The courts have taken this, over the years, to mean that government shall not endorse any particular religious creed at all. This policy makes good sense, as Martha Nussbaum explains, for it is the case that when one religion is set up as the state
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Frankly, I don't even know what sort of "PC crap" people keep talking about. Where do you hear it? As far as I can tell, it is a bunch of nonsense stirred up by right-wing talk show hosts in a petty attempt to motivate their political base. "Oh no!" they say, "Christmas is in danger!" Bullshit. No one is going around telling you that you can't celebrate Christmas or go to Church. In fact, how many times have random strangers said Merry Christmas to you this year? Probably a lot more than have told you that you can't celebrate. As for being off on the Christian holidays, that no more constitutes the establishment of a religion than does allowing Chruches to partake of government run sewage, water, and roads. It is purely pragmatic, the majority do want those days off, and so the government gives everyone those days off. They can do this with no contradiction because there is no inherent religious endorsement in providing a day off, not like there is in the active presentation of a religious symbol. Besides, Christians aren't really a
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That didn't make sense, but I'm sure you can figure out what I mean. ;)
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In fact, when I ended it that way, I thought, "Ha. People who don't know about the party will wonder what the heck that's about." :)
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