The day Christmas is celebrated roughly corresponds with the Solstice; it's believed that when missionaries came over, they placed Christmas on that date to convince the pagans to join them. It's a lot harder to convert someone if you tell them they can't have their festivals any more.
This is the same for EID and most muslim festivals they are simply a continuation and bastardisation of pagan rituals that already existed at the time
Because Muslims make up less than 5% of the population which is not enough to warrant a national holiday
Because it will lead to a thousand other national holidays and soon we'll end up like Brazil where people holiday more than they work which would damage the economy
Because doing so will dilute the importance of our national holidays and national identity and encourage division, and we should instead encourage people to assimilate into our heritage by participating in our traditions in the interests of social cohesion
Because it is not appropriate in a country with thousands of years worth of Christian identity which is woven into its social, artistic and constitutional fabric to recognise on a national scale the traditions of a completely different culture with values and laws which are at odds with Britain's
Because Muslims make up less than 5% of the population which is not enough to warrant a national holiday
Because it is not appropriate in a country with thousands of years worth of Christian identity which is woven into its social, artistic and constitutional fabric to recognise on a national scale the traditions of a completely different culture with values and laws which are at odds with Britain's
Pick one.
Half the country is non-religious. Why should Christianity get any preference?
Half the country is non-religious. Why should Christianity get any preference?
I have already explained this
Firstly because Christians make up 64% and Muslims make up 4.5% of the population
Secondly because Christianity has been the religion of these isles for about 1500 years and is intimately and exclusively woven into its political, social and cultural fabric. In the interests of social cohesion, only Christianity should be formally recognised in things like national holidays to encourage people to assimilate into our values and national identity. Recognising another would encourage divisions and would also open the gates for a thousand other national holidays which would damage our economy and create a number of different British peoples rather than one united group.
Firstly because Christians make up 64% and Muslims make up 4.5% of the population
Secondly because Christianity has been the religion of these isles for about 1500 years and is intimately and exclusively woven into its political, social, cultural and artistic fabric. In the interests of social cohesion, only Christianity should be formally recognised in things like national holidays to encourage people to assimilate into our values and national identity. Recognising another would encourage divisions and would also open the gates for a thousand other national holidays which would damage our economy and create a number of different British peoples rather than one united group.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Christians don't make up 64% of the population. If they did, 50% of the population couldn't be non-religious.
Oh yeah, this country is so Christian. We kill adulterers and homosexuals by the spades.
Leviticus 20:10 for adultery: 'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death."
Leviticus 20:13 for homosexuality: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."
Leviticus 20:10 for adultery: 'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death."
Leviticus 20:13 for homosexuality: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."
Yes modern Christians seem to follow those teaching a lot. It is quite actively taught in christian schools and churches that this is a bad attitude to have.
Two things: firstly, you are taking the word of figures provided by a magazine which does not say where they are coming from over the National Census
Secondly, you will notice that in the unlikely event that these figures are reliable, 44% is about ten times as many as 4.5%
Leviticus 20:10 for adultery: 'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death."
Leviticus 20:13 for homosexuality: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."
The clue with Christianity is in the name. Christ's teachings - which are all in the New, and not the Old Testament - are the essence of Christianity. That is why you can hear plenty of Muslim preachers in a single area of London baying for the blood of gays while there is not a single Anglican priest in the entire country who would join them:
John 8:7
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Mathew 7:1
Judge not, that you be not judged.
It is also important to note that Britain has and has had for about 500 years its own brand of Christianity - as a result of the creation of the Church of England under Henry VIII. Christianity in this country has been for some time now about ceremony and ritual around earthly things like coronating a monarch or getting your baby baptised. This alone makes it more suited to national functions around which the entire population is invited to gather, in contrast to Islam which is riddled with convoluted and often utterly depraved dogmatic teachings which are still 'active' in the religion today.
'because it held unspilt So long and equably what since is found Only in separation - marriage, and birth, And death, and thoughts of these - for which was built This special shell? For, though I've no idea What this accoutred frowsty barn is worth, It pleases me to stand in silence here;
A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognized, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious, And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in, If only that so many dead lie round.'
Two things: firstly, you are taking the word of figures provided by a magazine which does not say where they are coming from over the National Census
Secondly, you will notice that in the unlikely event that these figures are reliable, 44% is about ten times as many as 4.5%
The clue with Christianity is in the name. Christ's teachings - which are all in the New, and not the Old Testament - are the essence of Christianity. That is why you can hear plenty of Muslim preachers in a single area of London baying for the blood of gays while there is not a single Anglican priest in the entire country who would join them:
It is also important to note that Britain has and has had for about 500 years its own brand of Christianity - as a result of the creation of the Church of England under Henry VIII. Christianity in this country has been for some time now about ceremony and ritual around earthly things like coronating a monarch or getting your baby baptised. This alone makes it more suited to national functions around which the entire population is invited to gather, in contrast to Islam which is riddled with convoluted and often utterly depraved dogmatic teachings which are still 'active' in the religion today.
because it held unspilt So long and equably what since is found Only in separation - marriage, and birth,And death, and thoughts of these - for which was built This special shell? For, though I've no idea What this accoutred frowsty barn is worth, It pleases me to stand in silence here;
A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognized, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious, And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in, If only that so many dead lie round.
From Church Going by Philip Larkin
However many Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or any other follower of religion there are in this country, they still do not deserve special holidays. I could invent my own religion and it would have just as much proof behind it as any of those, but would I get time off for my special holidays? I don't think so.
However many Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or any other follower of religion there are in this country, they still do not deserve special holidays. I could invent my own religion and it would have just as much proof behind it as any of those, but would I get time off for my special holidays? I don't think so.
I would simply be repeating myself if I deigned to engage with this.