Don't take offense I am just curious.
2007-04-06 08:09:25 · 37 answers · asked by Gilbert A 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
And Christians who take the day off should be required to have nails pounded through their hands and feet and a stake driven into their sides. Oh, and don't forget the crown of thorns!
Don't be offended. I'm just saying...
2007-04-06 08:18:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
Yes. Holidays are pretty much forced upon everyone in America and are far from exclusively Christian. What does a bunny delivering eggs and candy to children have to do with Jesus? It seems as though most Americans see Easter as a holiday to buy candy, hide eggs, and get together with family. You can do all of those things and not be a Christian.
Not to mention Easter has pagan roots and is not a holiday Christians originally came up with. Maybe we should just give the pagans time off and everyone else can work.
2007-04-06 08:19:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people have to go to work on Good Friday and Easter (religious or not), so I don't see why that would make a difference. Besides, it's not as if we carry around a card stating our religion.
And why only atheists? If you're going to say atheists can't enjoy the holidays, then I don't see why Agnostics, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, etc. should be able to either.
2007-04-06 08:21:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I suppose you are suggesting going to work while the Christians stay home, right.
I, an atheist, have to work tonight. On Good Friday. I'm perfectly okay with it. I would not be okay if I had to work while everyone else got it off.
First, you assume that only atheists are not Christians. What about Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, etc Should they get the day off?
Second, you assume that people should only get holidays off if they celebrate them. But most people do nothing to celebrate Veteran's Day, Presidents' Day, MLK Day. Should we make all the white people go to work on MLK Day?
(I strongly disagree with the MLK one for the reasons I just mentioned but also because I, a white guy, feel a great respect for Martin Luther King and all he did for the white community as well as the black. He freed us from being oppressors; without him I would have grown up in a world where I had to drink from the whites only drinking fountain, and I am grateful for that.)
Anyway, at work the other day somebody argued that we should not have to work on Good Friday because it's a holiday. I told her that the previous night had been Passover and she had worked it without objection. She said that nobody celebrates Passover. I don't think I need to point out the lunacy there.
2007-04-06 08:19:07 · answer #4 · answered by Dan X 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think it is really just a day off for them. Whatever. I am an employer and I wouldn't make anyone work on Easter, but they are working today (Good Friday). I would not hold it against them if they asked to take the day off though.
I celebrate memorial day, but I never fought in a war or died? Is that fair? Sure. It is a celebration just the same. If an athiest wants to celbrate Christmas...whatever.
2007-04-06 08:15:34 · answer #5 · answered by RedE1 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
rofl... ummm... since when have I ever been able to do that? I work EVERY holiday and have ever since I started working when I was a teenager. The only time I didn't work on the holidays was when I was bed ridden from my car accident.
To an Atheist, its just time off work. It doesn't mean anything else.
Haven't you noticed that there's at least one day every month thats a "holiday"? Its just time off. Nothing more.
2007-04-06 08:15:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Should christians be allowed to enjoy the Pagan festivities of Easter? The very name Easter is from Eostera - a Germanic Goddess of spring and fertility. Eggs, baskets, chicks, lambs, bunnies and all the other trappings of this holiday are PAGAN. Stolen, just like Yule (xmas).
Should xtians be allowed to hunt eggs?Should xtians be allowed to eat chocolate bunnies and peeps?
Spare me your diversive, dogmatic, rhetoric!
2007-04-06 08:18:38 · answer #7 · answered by Medusa 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to point out that in the UK these are national "bank holidays" and we get fewer of them than anyone else in (secular) Europe.
Also Easter is a pagan festival named after Eostre who's festival was Eosturmonath.
2007-04-06 08:17:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well if the employer gives those days as a paid holiday, then why not. That's the employers choice to give the day off. I'm at work, but we had the option to leave from 12-3 for church services.
2007-04-06 08:12:23 · answer #9 · answered by photogrl262000 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Before retirement, I used to work through all religious holidays. It was a chance to enjoy peace and quiet and really get things done. I did all my best and most creative work when I wasn't being interrupted every five minutes.
2007-04-06 08:20:41 · answer #10 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm working today(kind of), but I'm off every Sunday. I won't be celebrating easter. No offense taken.
2007-04-06 08:14:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋