Religious holidays

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19 Dec 09

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19 Dec 09

If you don't belong to a particular religion should you have a day off when that religion has a holiday? As an example, if you are not Christian should you have Christmas day off. Here in Australia everyone gets the day off as a public holiday.

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19 Dec 09

Originally posted by Zort Boy
If you don't belong to a particular religion should you have a day off when that religion has a holiday? As an example, if you are not Christian should you have Christmas day off. Here in Australia everyone gets the day off as a public holiday.

Sure, why not? There is a plethora of non-Christian attachments to Christmas; in fact, one could go through the secular motions and pretty much remain outside the bounds of any kind of religious observance. At least in the USA, the secular aspects of Christmas revolve around being with family and gift-giving and there's nothing like the good ol' fashioned mighty dollar to keep that all a-goin'.

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19 Dec 09

Originally posted by Badwater
there are lots of currencies like the feeble and nose diving dollar

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Badwater

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19 Dec 09

...there's nothing like the good ol' fashioned currencies like the feeble and nose diving dollar to keep that all a-goin'.

Yes, that's what I meant.

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Originally posted by Zort Boy
If you don't belong to a particular religion should you have a day off when that religion has a holiday? As an example, if you are not Christian should you have Christmas day off. Here in Australia everyone gets the day off as a public holiday.

If a person chooses to submit to a spiritual force that demands they sit at home watching daytime TV, why should their employer have to pay them?

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19 Dec 09

should this thread be in debates/spirituality as well as general?

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19 Dec 09

Originally posted by divegeester
If a person chooses to submit to a spiritual force that demands they sit at home watching daytime TV, why should their employer have to pay them?

The TV gods may get angry over that post.

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Originally posted by Silverstriker
should this thread be in debates/spirituality as well as general?

Well that's a post you could put in debates - see what comes back?

divegeester

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19 Dec 09

Originally posted by expuddlepirate
The TV gods may get angry over that post.

Religious holidays are a joke, people should get off their fat arses and work instead of using religion as an excuse to slope of work and piss about all day.

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19 Dec 09

Originally posted by divegeester
Religious holidays are a joke, people should get off their fat arses and work instead of using religion as an excuse to slope of work and piss about all day.

< Offering prayers to my TV dish for divegeester's forgiveness. May he be visited by the ghosts of TV past, present and future without commercial interuption.

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19 Dec 09

Originally posted by Badwater
...there's nothing like the good ol' fashioned currencies like the feeble and nose diving dollar to keep that all a-goin'.

Yes, that's what I meant.

Don't you mean the Chinese Yuan?

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19 Dec 09

Originally posted by divegeester
Religious holidays are a joke, people should get off their fat arses and work instead of using religion as an excuse to slope of work and piss about all day.

and what will you be doing??

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20 Dec 09

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Australia may give everyone the same public holidays, but if you're of a different religion you don't get extra holidays for your own days. For example, Jewish staff in Jewish businesses normally take Jewish holy days out of their annual leave entitlement, or work on the Christian public holidays as a swapped day. The big ones, Christmas and Easter, are tourist-driven breaks and very few of us treat them as holy days now.

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Originally posted by stoker
and what will you be doing??

What I mean is that everyone should get the same public holidays irrespective of religion or creed; I didn't mean Christmas should be cancelled! There is a trend I've witnessed in certain religious/ethinic groups to play the religion card in order to duck out of certain things.