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Town Renames "Good Friday" for the sake of "Cultural Sensitivity"

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Whenever you hear a liberal talking about cultural diversity and sensitivity it normally means something insensitive is about to happen to Christians.

The latest case in point: Bloomington, Indiana - the home of Indiana University and a nesting place for a gaggle of intolerant liberals.

Mayor John Hamilton recently announced that are renaming two paid holidays for city workers -- in an effort to respect "differing cultures."

Columbus Day will henceforth be known as "Fall Holiday" and Good Friday will be known as "Spring Holiday."
Town Renames "Good Friday" for the sake of "Cultural Sensitivity" — Todd Starnes

My organization switched to "Spring Holiday" at least eight years ago. I didn't mind at all even though I kind of regard this as a euphemism. What I always cared about was having Good Friday off one way or another because that's the one day of the year I won't work.
 
I'm sorry you've been triggered by people who aren't respecting your religion. Would you like for us to make you a safespace so you don't have to hear people say "fall holiday" and "spring holiday"?

lol....good one.
 
Whenever you hear a liberal talking about cultural diversity and sensitivity it normally means something insensitive is about to happen to Christians.

The latest case in point: Bloomington, Indiana - the home of Indiana University and a nesting place for a gaggle of intolerant liberals.

Mayor John Hamilton recently announced that are renaming two paid holidays for city workers -- in an effort to respect "differing cultures."

Columbus Day will henceforth be known as "Fall Holiday" and Good Friday will be known as "Spring Holiday."
Town Renames "Good Friday" for the sake of "Cultural Sensitivity" — Todd Starnes

Oh for Christ's sake. What's wrong with Spring, Fall, and Winter Holidays? Maybe we can change 4th of July to Mid-summer break too.
 
Well, when in Rome . . . .



Supporting the removing of a Christian holiday then. You must be anti-Christian.
Who says there isn't a war on Christians? Just have to look at the Religio-cide occurring in the Middle East.
Perhaps you'd be more comfortable there?



Supporting removing holiday in existence since 1792, and a federal holiday since 1937.

So you'd support removing two federal holidays that have been around for a long, long time (so ones with historical precedence), at the same time claim that you aren't sacrificing the society that you claim you belong to?

Sacrificing long held traditions on the alter of excessive PC idiocy? You are free to do so, just do it somewhere else, some other nation, and not around here.



In the days of old before there were good instruments and good data, it doesn't matter where he though he was. What matters is that he had the courage to go beyond the existing map and push forward the boundaries of human knowledge at the time.

Leif Erikson did that long before Columbus.
 
I'm sorry you've been triggered by people who aren't respecting your religion. Would you like for us to make you a safespace so you don't have to hear people say "fall holiday" and "spring holiday"?

As much as you would think that Is what is happening...please consider that it was named something else first...and in the name of "emotional safety" they changed the name.

We want this day off! But don't call it this! But still give us the day off!


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I'm sorry you've been triggered by people who aren't respecting your religion. Would you like for us to make you a safespace so you don't have to hear people say "fall holiday" and "spring holiday"?

Do you realize that "holiday" is OUR word. Think holy-day....holiday. Stop using our word without permission.
 
Do you realize that "holiday" is OUR word. Think holy-day....holiday. Stop using our word without permission.

"Our" word? Did America invent the "holiday"?
 
Ah, that noted Christian holiday, Columbus Day. Oh, how many Columbus Days I remember going to church for 7 hours and then feasting on roast Indian at my grandmother's house.
 
I don't understand what the problem is with keeping their names as Good Friday and Columbus Day.
...but you do understand the problem with calling the days Fall Holiday and Spring Holiday?

Really?

Or is it just that a "gaggle of intolerant liberals" feels the need to pointlessly boss all the rest of us about?
I think the point here is the "gaggle of intolerant conservatives" are throwing a temper tantrum about something which doesn't matter, likely because they feel like they are no longer getting special treatment.

Volunteering to redefine / define away their own society and culture, I guess they're not that interested in it, but there are other that are.
Societies are always redefining themselves. Does it come as a shock to you?

Who says there isn't a war on Christians?
:lol:

Renaming a day to Fall Holiday or Spring Holiday is a war on Christianity? Really?

You know who says there isn't a war on Christians in America? Sane people, that's who.
 
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Removing? What, if the government doesn't celebrate a holiday, you just stop celebrating it? Is your faith in the government or in God? Wait, but it's not even that. It's not that the government is even removing Good Friday. It's that the government is celebrating all cultures on Good Friday. Inclusion of others is removal of you, I guess.

Yes, removal from the public square. Removal of that holiday from it's previous standing.

Pathetic, even for you. You're supporting celebration of a genocidal maniac, therefore maybe you are more comfortable somewhere else.

Hardly, I'm pointing out genocidal maniacs in the Middle East killing off Christians.

Again with this "removing" idea. I always love this. To Christians, you must exclusively celebrate Christianity otherwise you're attacking Christianity. To people who have been oppressing other cultures for so long, I imagine including other cultures must feel like an attack.

You can't argue that changing the name of the holiday doesn't reduce that holiday in stature, so yes, it is in fact elbowing a traditional holiday, acknowledged, named and in place for years and years, and you want to go change that just because it'll make you feel more friendly to other cultures.

WTF? Why is it always taking something from someone else, giving it to others, just so that you can feel better about yourself? As the saying goes, 'When 'A' spends 'B's money for 'C's benefit, there is surely something rotten in Denmark'.

What is so empowering, so compelling to you that you want to tear down long standing traditions?

Sacrificing tradition! Yes, because again, your religious belief just vanishes if the government doesn't tell you to be Christian, I guess.



And kill a bunch of people when he got there, yes. He was a **** navigator, and a murderer. Doing something brave based on a stupid idea is still stupid.

You're demanding that the government celebrate murder. This is your standard, not mine.

That's your incorrect interpretation. That's as flawed as taking something from someone else, giving it to others, just so that you can feel better about yourself.
 
Leif Erikson did that long before Columbus.

No denying that. But historically Columbus Day was the designated holiday. I'm sure, if you look around, there may very well be a 'Leif Erikson Day' celebrated someplace too.
 
Whenever you hear a liberal talking about cultural diversity and sensitivity it normally means something insensitive is about to happen to Christians.

The latest case in point: Bloomington, Indiana - the home of Indiana University and a nesting place for a gaggle of intolerant liberals.

Mayor John Hamilton recently announced that are renaming two paid holidays for city workers -- in an effort to respect "differing cultures."

Columbus Day will henceforth be known as "Fall Holiday" and Good Friday will be known as "Spring Holiday."
Town Renames "Good Friday" for the sake of "Cultural Sensitivity" — Todd Starnes

I dont see a problem with Good Friday, but this actually makes more sense. Treat everyone equally, not according to their religion.
 
...but you do understand the problem with calling the days Fall Holiday and Spring Holiday?

Really?

I think the point here is the "gaggle of intolerant conservatives" are throwing a temper tantrum about something which doesn't matter, likely because they feel like they are no longer getting special treatment.

A point on which we agree.

Societies are always redefining themselves. Does it come as a shock to you?

:lol:

Renaming a day to Fall Holiday or Spring Holiday is a war on Christianity? Really?

Taking a religious day of observance which has been the tradition for a long time, and discarding it isn't losing something?

You know who says there isn't a war on Christians in America? Sane people, that's who.

Never made that claim. I pointed out the regicide occurring in the Middle East by murdering maniacs.
 
"Our" word? Did America invent the "holiday"?

Figure of speech, wouldn't want him to offend someone with the term 'holy'.
 
I'm sorry you've been triggered by people who aren't respecting your religion. Would you like for us to make you a safespace so you don't have to hear people say "fall holiday" and "spring holiday"?

What is it with leftists that presumes that a new name will make it all better?

Here's a thought. If you don't like Good Friday or Columbus day, just go to work and don't celebrate them.
 
Do you realize that "holiday" is OUR word. Think holy-day....holiday. Stop using our word without permission.

Lmao


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What is it with leftists that presumes that a new name will make it all better?

Here's a thought. If you don't like Good Friday or Columbus day, just go to work and don't celebrate them.

AMEN! PREACH IT! Lol.

Your day is bad. But I still want to celebrate it by not going to work.


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AMEN! PREACH IT! Lol.

Your day is bad. But I still want to celebrate it by not going to work.


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Hey, I'm waiting for someone to claim that Black Friday is discrimination and insist it be renamed Go buy worthless crap dy.
 
Taking a religious day of observance which has been the tradition for a long time, and discarding it isn't losing something?
Yes, it is losing being treated as special. Losing special status and be treated equally should not be an invitation to whine however.

This is what so many Christians don't understand. They don't understand why so many people roll their eyes at their complaints. Our entire society is set up around Christianity. When things like this happen, and remove a little bit of the special privilege Christians have enjoyed for so long, people like me don't want to hear whining, as it just shows a lack of perspective. I'm a Catholic and have no problem with any sect of Christianity, but things like this just make an objective person's eyes roll.

Never made that claim.
But when people refer to a "war on Christianity", many are talking about in America.
I pointed out the regicide occurring in the Middle East by murdering maniacs.
So in a thread talking about how a town renamed two holidays, you thought it was relevant to point out something that was happening on the other side of the world, in a completely different country under completely different circumstances?

You don't see a problem with that?
 
Yes, it is losing being treated as special. Losing special status and be treated equally should not be an invitation to whine however.

This is what so many Christians don't understand. They don't understand why so many people roll their eyes at their complaints. Our entire society is set up around Christianity. When things like this happen, and remove a little bit of the special privilege Christians have enjoyed for so long, people like me don't want to hear whining, as it just shows a lack of perspective. I'm a Catholic and have no problem with any sect of Christianity, but things like this just make an objective person's eyes roll.

But when people refer to a "war on Christianity", many are talking about in America.
So in a thread talking about how a town renamed two holidays, you thought it was relevant to point out something that was happening on the other side of the world, in a completely different country under completely different circumstances?

You don't see a problem with that?

So what religious group has the largest segment of the electorate as adherents?

Muslim?
Buddhism?
Shintoism?
Atheism?
Nope.
Christianity.

So why go through all these contortions for the merest whisps of minorities?
And for little more than appeasing some misbegotten self-inflicted guilt from liberal / progressives?
(Who's real intent is just to boss everyone else around with their excessive PC bull****)
:screwy
 
So what religious group has the largest segment of the electorate as adherents?
Who cares? Is it your position government should play favorites with religion?

So why go through all these contortions for the merest whisps of minorities?
What contortions? It's a renaming of a day. I feel as if the response from people like you are FAR more making a mountain out of a mole hill.
And for little more than appeasing some misbegotten self-inflicted guilt from liberal / progressives?
Inclusiveness =/= guilt.
(Who's real intent is just to boss everyone else around with their excessive PC bull****)
:screwy
As opposed to you, whose real intent is to boss everyone around with your particular flavor of religion? That's somehow better?

You're the one with the problem here. The town did it and you're the one with the complaint. You're the one trying to boss people around based on your religious views.

Answer me this...are you Catholic? Protestant? Orthodox? Let's say, for the sake of this argument, you're Protestant. Would you support changing Columbus Day to Infallible Pope Day? Of course you wouldn't and as a Catholic, neither would I. My religious views are mine and they will not be changed, but I have no right to expect my government to push my beliefs onto others. By renaming it to Spring Holiday, it is merely an acknowledgement that there are many people in this country who do not wish your religious beliefs pushed onto them.

The problem you are having is you WANT your religious beliefs to be catered to, at the expense of anyone else. I'm sorry, we just do not agree this should be acceptable.
 
So what religious group has the largest segment of the electorate as adherents?

Muslim?
Buddhism?
Shintoism?
Atheism?
Nope.
Christianity.

So why go through all these contortions for the merest whisps of minorities?
And for little more than appeasing some misbegotten self-inflicted guilt from liberal / progressives?
(Who's real intent is just to boss everyone else around with their excessive PC bull****)
:screwy

Can't say I disagree. People need to just deal with it. We celebrate Christmas, Easter and Columbus Day here. Don't like it, fine. Don't celebrate.
 
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