I mean, they already have Easter, and then basically the whole month of December. It's not anyone else's fault that it got turned into a consumerism and capitalist mega payday.
Good Friday also gets a government holiday in 12 states as well, that should get an honorary mention. In public school ash Wednesday used to be a thing... But not sure if they finally did away with it
Easter isn't even about Jesus. At least Christmas has the name, and some manger imagery, and other Christian-based stuff they can stamp on top of Saturnalia, but Easter is still named after the goddess of fertility with all the accompanying fertility and spring parts, from eggs to rabbits, to little sprouting plants and whatnot.
And I get that the Christians try to associate that spring renewal and rebirth with the resurrection, but I think that's a pretty big stretch to try to make it work.
Easter is not about Jesus. Every time somebody says "keep Christ in Christmas" I want to say "then get him out of Easter."
Dude I remember that day Jesus rose from the dead. Crazy day. It was.. was it Wednesday? I'm not sure. No wait it was definitely Sunday. The first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. Yeah that's when it was. Who could forget that?
Look up a sociologist named Alvin Toffler. Back around 1970, he and his wife wrote two books, "The Third Wave" and "Future Shock."
The idea of The Third Wave was that the world was going to rapidly shift from an Industrial model to a Digital one and that change would be as profound as the shift from hunter/gatherer to farming. The concept of Future Shock was that there would be a lot of people who couldn't or wouldn't be able to adapt to the new reality.
This is a really good example of what they were talking about.
Toffler said that by 'anti-war' he meant that the next conflict would be so different from previous ones that we should come up with a new name for it.
Right after 9/11/2001 some folks floated the idea, but TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS were incensed with the idea that the conflict was anything but a WAR!!!
Do you mean the reactionary behavior, or the inability to understand it? I feel like it could go either way, but one is more depressing than the other.
His mind certainly is. The blobby rest will soon follow as well. He's overweight, eats fast food and drinks coke all day and thinks exercise is bad because it depletes the body's battery. It's a wonder he hasn't croaked already but time is certainly against him now. In comparison, Biden takes much better care of himself (but time is certainly not on his side as well).
During his 2016 campaign he was happily holding up an LGBT flag. A part of that campaign was also "Twinks for Trump". Now this charlatan is turning around and talking about "Christian values".