Sardonicus
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Again whether you like the issue or not is not the point of contention here. You obviously can't square the differences between what the words observation and promote are. You have still failed to justify or rationalize your initial claim that by observing the holiday of Good Friday (in this case) the government is "promoting" a religion. And if I am not mistaken you claimed it was specifically a "Catholic" holiday when in fact that is not correct either. How specifically is the government of Bloomington "promoting" any religion much less the Catholic one by observing a holiday?Yes, it is. The government is recognizing what is purely a religious holiday for a specific religion and giving employees that day off as a paid holiday.
Yes, promotion / endorsement by favoring it.
That is a subjective statement. Just because it is a belief that you hold does not mean that its not subjective.
Yes. Promote: To encourage people to like, buy, use, do, or support something
By the government recognizing a religious holiday that is specific to only one religion and is not secular in any way (there is no secularization of Good Friday like there is of Christmas), then the government is promoting that holiday as its giving its employees a Christian Holy Day as a paid holiday. That is my position. I have yet to hear from you why that is not an example of the government promoting or favoring a specific religion over other religions. '
As I stated earlier, I don't care that they give their employees Good Friday off, but let's call a spade a spade here. Giving Christians a paid Holy Day off is no different than a Muslim government giving its citizens a Muslim Holy Day as a paid day off. It is by definition the government favoring one religion over another.
Also I don't appreciate the literal hacking apart of my comments for internet arguments' purposes. Please simply formulate an intelligent and hopefully persuasive argument, and rely less on the literal of hacking apart of sentences. To use a phrase correctly, it is very hackish.
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