atheists, if we had the right to work on easter and christmas...?

Question

if you had the right to work these days, then would you work or fake it and say that you're christian just to avoid going to work? please be honest. I wanna know how many of us would actually go to work because we dont believe in god.

by christian it could be from any subdivision like catholic, Jehova's witness, etc

Answer 1

What does Christmas have to do with believing in God? We as Christians have just chosen that day to honor the gift of Jesus that God gave into the world, it could be any day, in fact it could be February 28th, it makes no difference. But Christmas, the real Christmas has nothing to do with God, it's all about Santa, reindeer, trees, parties, and eating lots and lots of really fattening food. So feel free to celebrate, it is more the holiday of unbelievers than it is believers.

Answer 2

An even better question to ask is how many atheists celebrate Christmas?

Sending cards, putting up a tree, decorating the house, buying gifts, cooking a special dinner, go visit with family and relatives for the "holidays", take special shooping trips, are happy to be off on Christmas, Good Friday Easter and Sundays, and I would even say some participate in prayer or church functions "just because"!

Just know, that many Christians and other religious groups work on these holidays as well to put food on a table or pay the bills.

Besides all this, where does it say we are not supposed to work on Christmas or Easter?

Answer 3

I better get 10 points for this, it is a little trick of the trade that I worked out:

When I formally renounced christianity and magically became an atheist (anyone who has gone through this process will understand the irony) I approached the director of my organisation to protest that the unfair and unethical treatment of atheists in the workplace. Chrisitans get christmas and easter and are allowed consideration for lent. Jews get Hanakah, and others. Muslims get consideration for Ramadan and are allowed to stop work x times a day to pray.

I simply stated that the fact that considerations are made for the religious means that Atheists are discriminated against and thus must receive time off and consideration equivelent to all of the religions.

I got it immediately.

Answer 4

I worked right through Easter weekend once.
I've never worked on Christmas because a) there's nothing to be done because it's a national holiday to begin with (and everything is closed). b) The rest of the family celebrates, I'm not going to pass up time with the people I love when given a ready-made excuse to be with them.

Answer 5

I'd go to work but it'd have nothing to do with a god existing or not existing.

I deal with Asperger Syndrome. It's an autism spectrum disorder/neurology. One symptom is extreme discomfort with violations or deviances from routine.

I loathe the holidays because they dramatically change my routines.

Answer 6

those holidays both began as pagan holidays were does it say in the bible jesus was born on the 25 or when he died your trusting a bunch of catholic preachers who just incorparated other holidays the church had to decide wich days they were and most likely put them on days of other groupes holidays to keep people on there side so santa and the bunny are pretty much anybodies not christians

Answer 7

I ask to work on Christmas because all the frivolity and greed is meaningless to me. I consider myself to be a Christian.

I plan to serve food in the county soup kitchen this Christmas morning. I don't need anymore junk (presents) and neither do my kids.

Answer 8

Easter's a Sunday, most people don't work Sundays.

As for Christmas, I celebrate it. It's as much a secular holiday as a religious one.

Answer 9

I work in the hospitality industry which is open 24/7/365. Since I am not a Christian, I have often volunteer to work those holidays so those who believe can worship as they please.

Answer 10

I worked it for double time several years. I'd work Easter in trade for another day off in a second.