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[ousdahl]

I would celebrate the fuck out of Yom Kippur, if it was a federal holiday.

[PhDhawk]

Easter is a more important religious holiday in the Christian faith. It is not a federal holiday and I'd argue, that while it does have some secular traditions and celebrations: Easter eggs, baskets, etc. It hasn't done so to the extent that Christmas has.

[PhDhawk]

I would celebrate the fuck out of Yom Kippur, if it was a federal holiday.

You would fast and remain in prayer all day, while wearing white, and go to synagogue?

[ousdahl]

If they’d let me in.


Otherwise, I’d just spend the day PMing gutter back and forth.

[TDub]

You'd drink PBRs and listen to Motley Crue with some dude named beaver

[TDub]

Not that thats all bad.

[TDub]

Mainly just the PBR part

[ousdahl]

Yeah, I’m not big on peebers.

Too bready for me.

If I want something that’s gonna sit in my gut like a brick, I’d rather just drink craft beers.

Otherwise, for the sake of my gut, and of the fact it’s been so damn hot and dry here, light beer. preferably in a bottle, it just hits different. Especially when served on ice…like 6 at a time…in a bucket…

[ousdahl]

Shit, I hope the sat shack isn’t closed on Yom Kippur too

[TDub]

The back door doesnt lock. We'll be ok. Save a bucket for me for when i get odf work tho

[Mjl]

I think Yom Kippur is entirely a religious holiday. I don't know anyone who's not a practicing member of the Jewish faith who celebrates Yom Kippur. I am not aware of any secular celebrations or traditions that apply that take place in the US.

In our area public schools get Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah off

[PhDhawk]

I think Yom Kippur is entirely a religious holiday. I don't know anyone who's not a practicing member of the Jewish faith who celebrates Yom Kippur. I am not aware of any secular celebrations or traditions that apply that take place in the US.

In our area public schools get Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah off

When I lived in CT they did too. Because there are a lot more Jewish people there, but they (in my experience) celebrated it as a religious holiday and the gentiles just had the day off school they didn't dye eggs or go on sleigh rides.

Ousdahl wants to make an argument, (based on what he's posted) that the US makes Christian holidays into federal holidays, but that really isn't the case, as is evident by the holiest holiday not being treated as a federal holiday, and Christmas is only because it's become a secular and cultural holiday in addition to being a religious one.

It's a matter of pragmatism. Nearly everyone in the US celebrates Christmas, at least in some form, regardless of faith. We celebrate the new year on Jan. 1 not as a nod to Pope Gregory who introduced the Gregorian calendar, but because that's the calendar Americans, and most of the world, use. Sure, it started out based on religion, but it's not anymore. So, he can try and play "gotcha" by pointing out that we don't use the chinese calendar, or Buddhist calendar to celebrate the new year, but it isn't for religious reasons...at least not in the past several hundred years.

[twocoach]

At least everyone gets that day off.

Columbus day and presidents day are worthless. To a slightly lesser extent so are veterans day and MLK.

Yeah, everyone gets Christmas off unless you work at a grocery store, a movie theater, a restaurant....

[ousdahl]

Do you think Christmas would have become a secular holiday on its own, if not for being a religious holiday first?

[twocoach]

Easter is a more important religious holiday in the Christian faith. It is not a federal holiday and I'd argue, that while it does have some secular traditions and celebrations: Easter eggs, baskets, etc. It hasn't done so to the extent that Christmas has.

And it is always celebrated on a Sunday, when the vast majority of federal institutions are already closed.

[TDub]

At least everyone gets that day off.

Columbus day and presidents day are worthless. To a slightly lesser extent so are veterans day and MLK.

Yeah, everyone gets Christmas off unless you work at a grocery store, a movie theater, a restaurant....

97% of people. We've been over this.

[PhDhawk]

Do you think Christmas would have become a secular holiday on its own, if not for being a religious holiday first?

No.

But that's irrelevant in 2021.

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

If Ramadan becomes a thing where Americans all go on diets and work out daily in like intense ways, and then at the end of the 40 days we celebrate with a Rock-esque cheat meal, I'm in.

But, until then, there's no reason it should be a federal holiday.

[ousdahl]

“I think it’s a shame yall gotta work on Christmas. Why do they make yall do that?”

ummm cuz folks like yall still expect to be served?

[Overlander]

“I think it’s a shame yall gotta work on Christmas. Why do they make yall do that?”

ummm cuz folks like yall still expect to be served?

This.

Plus, fuck your Black Friday bullshit.

[PhDhawk]

“I think it’s a shame yall gotta work on Christmas. Why do they make yall do that?”

ummm cuz folks like yall still expect to be served?

This.

Plus, fuck your Black Friday bullshit.

You should only get the day off if you sign a contract agreeing not go shopping that day.