Then let's make this thread evolve.
Should publicly celebrated religion be banned-i.e., whatever you worship in the privacy of your own home is fine, but don't bring it out in public and charge (er, ah, I mean tithe) people to support the building of bigger boxes with bad stick figures on top. Should holidays which are strictly religious in origin be exchanged for less specific ones?
Religion is fucked up, but if people can keep it in the privacy of their homes, I'm fine with it. When some jackass on the street walks up to me to ask whether I've been saved, and what will I do if I am wrong and end up in h-e-double toothpicks, I'm not fine with it.
I think Christmas is a stupid name. I love the family time, and the gift giving, and decorating the tree, and the sound of carolers, and the Charlie Brown special, but the only reason the name has significance to me is because I grew up associating it with these fun things. Had it been associated with some dead Jew hammered up on a lodge-pole who came back from the dead to haunt us, I would have wondered why we didn't do that for Halloween.
Should publicly celebrated religion be banned-i.e., whatever you worship in the privacy of your own home is fine, but don't bring it out in public and charge (er, ah, I mean tithe) people to support the building of bigger boxes with bad stick figures on top. Should holidays which are strictly religious in origin be exchanged for less specific ones?
Religion is fucked up, but if people can keep it in the privacy of their homes, I'm fine with it. When some jackass on the street walks up to me to ask whether I've been saved, and what will I do if I am wrong and end up in h-e-double toothpicks, I'm not fine with it.
I think Christmas is a stupid name. I love the family time, and the gift giving, and decorating the tree, and the sound of carolers, and the Charlie Brown special, but the only reason the name has significance to me is because I grew up associating it with these fun things. Had it been associated with some dead Jew hammered up on a lodge-pole who came back from the dead to haunt us, I would have wondered why we didn't do that for Halloween.
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