i've heard your point and responded 4x now.

becoming a cultural phenomenon doesnt diminish the basis of the day. show me proof it has, burden is on you anyway

I don't agree with this, smells more like Bill DeBlasio trying to pander to everyone under the sun again. "Hey everybody, look how tolerant and and progressive I am! Vote for me!" As someone already mentioned, I have no problem with winter and spring break, mainly because, although having mostly religious roots, I view them more as logical breaks from a calender point-of-view. Start the falll semester, study hard, work hard, then take a break with the family; then resume with more studying and work so you can take another break to enjoy the thawing weather.

Anyway, the primary reason I oppose adding yet more religious holidays is that work productivity can potentially decrease as you risk having even more people demand their own religious holidays. Hey, if Christians and Muslims can have their slice of pie, why can't we, so sayeth the Voodoos, Hindus, and Moon worshippers.

Personally, keep religious holidays as excused and voluntary holidays for individuals, but don't make them universal government holidays. Even though it's against my better judgment, at least that way you won't end up with a million Kim Davises and Widowmakers screeching about their religious way of life being waged war upon.

This post was edited by CarsV on Sep 28 2015 03:35pm

The Christian vacations make up more days than all other religions combined. It's progress but still isn't a fair number of days off as compared to the number of days children get off to practice Christianity.

Here's a sign that Christianity still reins supreme in the public schools.

Before PC'ness and hyper sensitivities we would have Halloween parties and Halloween parades in school everybody would dress up in their trick or treat costumes and have fun. No goats blood pentagrams or naked dancing .just simple fun

now due to it being considered a Pagan holiday or even Satan worship the schools have Harvest Festivals owait..they stopped calling them that too many Wiccan roots now its just fall festivals. I mean really? trick or treat? I didn't start to worship Satan until widow assigned me the task last fall.

Again, in my opinion that should change, and adding more religious holidays is not what I consider "progress". Christian holidays should be individually voluntary holidays, not government observed. I already mentioned why winter and spring break gets a pass.

How about this.

We add 2 months on to the end of the year, and just give all the religious holidays off.

But what about my Spaghetti Monster beliefs? I worship him every first Friday on the month. Don't deny me my religious freedom, stop being prejudice. I'm going to consult the ACLU on this matter. Oh, and everyone else must observe my Spaghetti Monster Fridays, as well, he's a bit totalitarian like that...

Nice to see that some1 sees some sense.

Okay, pastafarians can come on Sunday as well

ISO one for Tezcatlipoca.