And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Christmas and Easter do commemorate actual events in history. Whether we celebrate them for these actual events is another (though valid) question entirely.
Sadly (at least for me) secular mankind has taken extremely important milestone Christian celebration of meaningful events and turned them into disgusting commercial enterprises that have little or no real meaning compared to the actual historical (holy) event.
Actual events in history? Like that time that a man came back from the dead or the time that a virgin woman gave birth? Totally factual and not made-up events.
Faith has nothing to do with it. You can have all the faith in the world that the Moon is made of cheese, but that doesn't make it so. Facts are facts, and faith is ... something else. Perhaps based on facts, perhaps not. Was Mohammad the final prophet of God? Or Jesus? Or Joseph Smith? What, you don't believe in the golden plates and the magic spectacles? Oh, ye of very, very, very little faith. At least according to some of my Mormon in-laws.
I'm a bit of a fan of Juneteenth myself. It's the day the Republicans freed the slaves from the Democrats. Similar to what the upcoming Nov 5 will be for everyone.
Juneteenth I understand. Kwanzaa is nothing more than Racist and anti Christian. The founder was quite clear about that. Efforts to ligitimize Kwanzaa are evil.
Eh, it was announced on June 19th in Galveston, Texas by newly arrived Union forces, the last state to be forced to free the slaves. It didn't take effect over the vast majority of the state because it took time for word to spread, and more time for troops to arrive to enforce it. The day the 13th Amendment was ratified would be a more fitting (and easily verifiable) date. Juneteenth as a national holiday is just dopey. It's pretty much a Texas-only day that has jack squat to do with most of the country, especially all those states that didn't have slavery or weren't even in the Union, yet. Once we have enough of the Mexican population here and voting, maybe we can make Cinco de Mayo a national holiday, too. It would only be slightly more irrelevant to most of the states as Juneteenth, and a lot more popular.
Screw a bunch of made up holidays. I’ll defend Pi day against all of y’all. Bring me a slice of banana cream and one of apple raisin and I’m a happy man.
Works for me.
ReplyDeleteThe first two are evidence that whole countries and even continents go through enormously silly periods.
In days gone by such periods were often staunched by hawks, blades, and trebuchets.
It ain’t over yet…
Deletenone of the above
ReplyDeleteInternational Talk Like a Pirate Day is just as real as those!
ReplyDeleteYou could have thrown Christmas and Easter in there and the results would not have changed
ReplyDeleteChristmas and Easter do commemorate actual events in history. Whether we celebrate them for these actual events is another (though valid) question entirely.
DeleteSadly (at least for me) secular mankind has taken extremely important milestone Christian celebration of meaningful events and turned them into disgusting commercial enterprises that have little or no real meaning compared to the actual historical (holy) event.
DeleteActual events in history? Like that time that a man came back from the dead or the time that a virgin woman gave birth?
DeleteTotally factual and not made-up events.
Oh! Ye of little faith. I am glad that there are "woke" people out there so we can have comparisons of how not to be.
DeleteFaith has nothing to do with it. You can have all the faith in the world that the Moon is made of cheese, but that doesn't make it so. Facts are facts, and faith is ... something else. Perhaps based on facts, perhaps not. Was Mohammad the final prophet of God? Or Jesus? Or Joseph Smith? What, you don't believe in the golden plates and the magic spectacles? Oh, ye of very, very, very little faith. At least according to some of my Mormon in-laws.
DeleteSouth Park had a very believable episode on da Mormans, Larry.
DeleteI'm a bit of a fan of Juneteenth myself. It's the day the Republicans freed the slaves from the Democrats. Similar to what the upcoming Nov 5 will be for everyone.
ReplyDeleteJuneteenth I understand. Kwanzaa is nothing more than Racist and anti Christian. The founder was quite clear about that. Efforts to ligitimize Kwanzaa are evil.
ReplyDeleteEh, it was announced on June 19th in Galveston, Texas by newly arrived Union forces, the last state to be forced to free the slaves. It didn't take effect over the vast majority of the state because it took time for word to spread, and more time for troops to arrive to enforce it. The day the 13th Amendment was ratified would be a more fitting (and easily verifiable) date. Juneteenth as a national holiday is just dopey. It's pretty much a Texas-only day that has jack squat to do with most of the country, especially all those states that didn't have slavery or weren't even in the Union, yet. Once we have enough of the Mexican population here and voting, maybe we can make Cinco de Mayo a national holiday, too. It would only be slightly more irrelevant to most of the states as Juneteenth, and a lot more popular.
ReplyDeletemaybe we can make Cinco de Mayo a national holiday, too.....
ReplyDeleteOr as Obama put it, "Quatro de cinco."
Screw a bunch of made up holidays. I’ll defend Pi day against all of y’all. Bring me a slice of banana cream and one of apple raisin and I’m a happy man.
ReplyDeleteIf I don't get the day off it's not a holiday.
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