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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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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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Originally posted by Badwater
there are lots of currencies like the feeble and nose diving dollar
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*lights a Cohiba with a € bill*

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

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The TV gods may get angry over that post.

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< 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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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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and what will you be doing??

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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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