Thanks!
2007-10-19 10:57:35 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Murph, didn't you get my email? =0)
2007-10-19 11:09:15 · update #1
O.K. wait until Christmas.
2007-10-19 11:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Current "religious" holidays were originally set to correspond with secular and pagan holidays so they could compete for attention. Christmas (Christ's Mass) was set for Saturnilius which was an old Roman holiday for gift giving and Easter was set at the Spring equinox and was the festival of Ishtar.
What other secular holidays are you considering? Valentine's Day (originally for St. Valentine) or St. Patrick's Day? The Catholic church has more holidays than it knows what to do with, mainly one for each day of the year, so technically they can claim any day and whatever holiday you might want they can say originated as a holy day.
2007-10-19 18:19:21 · answer #2 · answered by Chris A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well christmas is a catholic holiday for one, the mass of christ in the king james bible it neither here nor their, easter is the passover, halloween, that started in ireland, it has to do with the druids, they were collecting taxes, give me your money or you will get trixed, the burned farms down, killed cattle, ect if the farmers didn't pay their taxes to them, that where the word trick or treat comes from. now halloween is like christmas, in the money market, good grief, I saw a halloween tree yesterday, all decked out with lights, how secular progressive can we get????? its all about the money and boy do they make it. they depend on it, so how many idiot people dose it take to keep these holidays going, and money for china, with all the crap???????
2007-10-19 18:15:39 · answer #3 · answered by poopsie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of our holidays were set for religious purposes. Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving all have religious undertones. I think you have put secular in our religious holidays. We Christians get tired of that.
2007-10-19 18:08:46 · answer #4 · answered by robee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually many of the holidays are religious in nature and people insist on dragging secularism into them.
2007-10-19 18:02:30 · answer #5 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
okay, but what secular holidays? Christmas? Easter?
2007-10-19 18:03:57 · answer #6 · answered by Daniel F 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will... with one exception. I hope to find support for a world wide holiday called "CASON DAY"... it's a acronym for Crush and Stamp-out Nonsense, and on this particular holiday it would be the tradition to seek out and ridicule all religious belief until it becomes entirely obviated.
Good idea, huh?
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2007-10-19 18:53:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's religion got to do with it...do with it?
Or
What's secularism got to do with it...do with it?
Oh for the sake of football...days off are for the weak anyway.
2007-10-20 01:47:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How is religion involved with President's Day OR Columbus Day?
You ARE aware that 'Holiday' is a foreshortening of 'holy day', right?
2007-10-19 18:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If I hear a Wal-Mart greeter tell me to have a blessed Arbor Day one more time, I'm gonna scream!
2007-10-19 18:06:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋