How does an athiest feel about the postal service acknowledging the Lord's day?
2007-03-12 16:24:42 · 28 answers · asked by squeezy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
probably pissed off like they are about everything else
2007-03-12 16:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by spanky 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Thats a great question! They'll have the ACLU on the USPS soon. In fact I would not be at all surprised if that really did happen. After all, why should we pay our civil service workers OT if they have to work Sundays? The Gov says it will allow freedom of religion but not acknowledge any particular religion. Man! what a really good question. Meanwhile i'll take the first day of the week to acknowledge Him and the first of all my gains as well.
God has blessed you!
2007-03-12 16:36:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it used to be that there was no mail at all on the weekend. Actually if you read the small print, you can get mail 365 days a week. At least they advertise so. I am sure that atheists even acknowledge that people and even places of work, buildings etc. need one day a week, for things must rest or things start going crazy....
2007-03-12 16:31:18 · answer #3 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See that's so funny because before it was the Lord's day, it was the Sun's day. SUN day. Saturday was SATURN's day. All the days of the week are named after other people's gods, not yours. You just appropriated it for your own god's use, just like you appropriated Christmas and Easter.
That doesn't lead me to think of Sunday as "the Lord's day" at all, it's just another day of the week, no matter who wants to attach it to an imaginary deity.
And the more days off postal workers get, the better.
2007-03-12 16:38:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Lord's Day is actually Saturday. Tertullian at the beginning of the third century A.D., coined Sunday as the Lord's Day. He did it 170 years after Christ was crucified. John, one of Jesus' disciples referred to Sunday simply as "the first day of the week". All of the Apostles used the term "first day of the week" to describe Sunday. The seventh day is the Lord's Day, the true sabbath of Christianity, it is the day the Lord blessed and sanctified.
2007-03-12 16:39:27 · answer #5 · answered by greeneyes25162 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well here in Australia we don't get mail on Saturdays or Sundays. It annoys me a little, but not because I'm an atheist. I understand people wanting some time off, but I'm sure there are people who would be willing to fill in on weekends.
2007-03-12 16:34:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that taking a day off has to have any significant spiritual meaning. The world is moving too fast and to take a day off to rest and recreate is healthy for people. I have no problem with Sundays being a "slow" day.
If one day a week is more "holy" than another to you, go for it. For me, Sunday is just a day to relax and take it easy. Nothing spiritual or religious about it at all.
2007-03-12 16:29:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm not mad, but the whole reason behind it is stupid, would you like if they got Friday, Saturday and Sunday off because they believe in The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
RAman
2007-03-12 16:32:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, i'm mad at God. it began with Santa. He did not get me an AT-AT at the same time as i replaced into 5 and that i lost faith. i myself were given a automobile with a solar roof so as that i might want to provide God the finger at the same time as out cruisin' for low women human beings. i know i'd like a sturdy switchin', it truly is why i'm searching for those low women human beings. possibly you would possibly want to help? I actually were so naughty...
2016-12-01 22:11:45 · answer #9 · answered by merryman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Blue laws" they're nonsense... some religions hold other days, like Saturday, sacred... how about honoring those days, too? Postal workers can get their time off without religiously based rules.
2007-03-12 16:27:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm just glad there's two days a week that I don't have to worry about getting any bills.
I don't mind them not working on the days that are named after, and set aside to worship, Saturn and Apollo (Sun)
2007-03-12 16:29:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋