Modern celebration of religious holidays

Karmakosmonaut · **Posted:** Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:39 am

Also, lols @ materialist people bashing religion in this thread when it's materialism that has corrupted or transfigured relatively modest Christian holidays like St Valentine's into consumerist bullshit.

Goat · **Posted:** Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:18 am

Celebrate whatever you like, however you like, or don't, but don't expect me or anyone else to give a shit or pay for it.

Milan · **Posted:** Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:48 am

Goat wrote:

Celebrate whatever you like, however you like, or don't, but don't expect me or anyone else to give a shit or pay for it.

This.
Who the fuck cares?

skadiv · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:28 pm

As it was said before, you don't need a reason to celebrate. But because religion has designed our lives for so many generations, it has become part of our tradition and heritage to do those things.
Just as christians shaped the pagan fests and holidays in their own interests to fit in their agenda, so it is nowdays, that those "christian" holidays are reshaped to fit for the atheists too, and the cicle repeats. Simply because we all want to celebrate, and maintain the traditions of our ancestors.

BTW, an interestins example. In israel, Yom Kipur is a most sacred religious day of fast for 24 hours (to torture oneself for his misbehavior during the year). In that day EVERYTHING is closed and even driving cars is prohibited.
So, being an atheist, how DID i (and others like me) celebrate this day? Simply by taking my bicycle and riding wherever i wanted on cities roads and freeways. And so did hundred of thousands kids and adults all over the country.
...and what a great holiday it is.
:dio:

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:54 pm

St Patrick's Day is Paddy's day for the rest of us- sing Irish tunes, blast the Pogues, drink heaps of Guinness, and turn the town upside down.
I had a shitload of fun.

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:02 pm

So now he's Irish!

Fridge turns me into Seinfeld's father.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:46 pm

Goat wrote:

So now he's Irish!

Fridge turns me into Seinfeld's father.

LOL all jews are alike so you always kinda were

Mmmm I had a guinness that night. But I do every night I go out and hence not a poser like frig.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:03 pm

I have Guinness or whisky most every time I go out, I just don't drink that exclusively- it's too expensive, and the slypacks are horrible.
Otherwise, Tennent's is the way to go for a cheapish good lager. McEwan's 80 Shilling for ale.

Speedyjx · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:16 pm

FrigidSymphony wrote:

I have Guinness or whisky most every time I go out, I just don't drink that exclusively- it's too expensive, and the slypacks are horrible.
Otherwise, Tennent's is the way to go for a cheapish good lager. McEwan's 80 Shilling for ale.

He spells whisky correctly, clearly not Irish.

:ph34r:

Karmakosmonaut · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:35 pm

I know that Whisky and Whiskey are spelled differently by Irish and Scots, but which is which again?

Speedyjx · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:25 am

Karmakosmonaut wrote:

I know that Whisky and Whiskey are spelled differently by Irish and Scots, but which is which again?

The Irish version has the extra 'e' in it.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:43 am

Americans use the extra 'e'.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:58 am

Scotch is whisky, Irish or American is whiskey. Depends on where it's distilled.

Sceadugenga · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:55 pm

dead1 wrote:

Today is St Patrick's Day and a whole heap of Australians will be getting drunk for it. Most will not have a drop of Irish blood in them. None will attend Mass or observe any religious rituals.

It makes me think how religious holidays have become completely corrupted.

I'm not religious in anyway (heck I'm an atheist), but I think it's sad that people often celebrate religious holidays for the wrong reasons.

Most people that I know that celebrate supposedly religious holidays are not religious.

They do not go to Mass and instead usually indulge in overating, getting drunk or consume enough chocolate to be sick during Easter. Oh and there's presents and for most kids, Christmas means presents.

Even on Christmas, many just catch up with family for a quick lunch and then wonder off to get drunk with friends or get drunk at the family lunch.

My inlaws do this as do all of my friends and acquaintances (my own family are all atheists so we don't do Christmas or Easter - we did get gifts for New Year).

The religious people I know don't really indulge in this sort of behaviour and not on the vulgar level that most non-religious people seem to do it (gifts are more modest, it's all about family).

It's a bit disrespectful to people who are actually religious and it makes a mockery of those holidays.

Honestly don't give a crap about whether or not some may think celebrating St. Patrick's Day is "disrespectful" to religious people or not. And I wouldn't call it a corruption of those holidays at all. Other holidays like Christmas (aka Yule) and so on are largely taken straight from European Heathenism anyways, so calling for people to not corrupt precious St. Paddy's Day or Christmas is kind of idiotic.

Holidays are to be celebrated as people want them to be celebrated, nobody owns them and gets to dictate how people spend them.

noodles · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:42 pm

I think a religious person could find a lot of stuff to be offended about and I tend to have the most respect for the ones who aren't offended by these things.

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