• can@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    The holidays we have are so commercialized they hardly feel religious to me. Christmas and Easter are just times to spend with family, nothing to do with Jesus.

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      11 months ago

      What annoys me, and I’m Jewish ethnically but I’m an atheist, is the commercialization of Hanukkah. It wasn’t even a major Jewish holiday. People just decided, “well, it’s near Christmas and they used to give raisins. Good enough.” I mean just make up a new holiday or something.

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      11 months ago

      Then people should have no issue with them being moved around so the holidays are equally divided throughout the year, right? There’s no importance to them happening on the specific dates they do at the moment, right?

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              11 months ago

              There’s only five true public holidays applied throughout the whole of Canada

              Quebec has their National holiday but no civic holiday. Only four provinces out of ten (two of those only for government employees), the territories and jobs under federal jurisdiction have the truth and remembrance day.

              Even counting all of them there’s a big hole after the new year and the next one is… Good Friday which is 100% religious…

              But at the federal level that’s 12 holidays that could be separated to get rid of religious holidays and to give everyone one long weekend every month!