Today is today though.
BTW, I'm moving to a small village in France.
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President Joe Biden Declares Easter Sunday As Transgender Day Of Visibility
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BTW, I'm moving to a small village in France.
List of LGBT awareness periods - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
This is a list of observances worldwide and locally. Here's the thing....look at the reasons each day or month is honored. Not all are happy holidays.
Sure. But while I'm sure all of those are personally important to the people observing them, most aren't recognized officially by the US President or the federal government, which is what I gather @Clizby Wampuscat was talking about.
Here is where I got that from. Scroll down to teh US.
List of LGBT awareness periods - Wikipedia
Most of those aren't recognized by the government as US holidays or observances.
If that's your bar, then there are plenty of causes, industries, etc. with way more observances.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
There's not much that can be done about it.Even the American Egg Board had to get involved to debunk the fake news!
American Egg Board forced to respond to GOP conspiracy about White House Easter event
Religious themes and imagery have been banned from the White House’s annual Easter celebration since 1978www.independent.co.uk
The amount of fake news, disinformation and misinformation (intentional or inadvertent) out there is staggering.
It seems its here to stay.
Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
It is an international day. How could the USA change it unilaterally.
This whole thing is fake news. Easter day rarely falls on the 31st of march so this is not a thing.
Biden neither changed the date nor Easter. It was just chance that they coincided this year, for those following the western church calendar, but not. for those following the orthodox eastern church calendar.
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America's gain, Frances loss.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
Not everyone celebrates your religious holiday. It's okay.
Funny you should say that. I don't. Not all of it, anyway. Americans have a terrible problem, and not everybody is to blame, but America is the country that Americans have made it. And this comes from an American who lived there for 55 years but finally tired of it and its rotting culture.
The average American is somebody I can no longer respect. With the rise of MAGA, Handmaid's Tale Christians, and the explosion of selfish, defiant, entitled, superficial, tantrumming people - three groups for whom I have no empathy and seem to comprise about half of the population - it's pretty hard to respect America anymore.
My empathy is for the remainder. They don't deserve that.
I see the Sermon on the Mount (SOTM) as instructions to an oppressed and exploited peasantry to not rise up against their oppressors. It's not saying be courageous, loyal, industrious, etc..
Here's the message in a nutshell: Accept your miserable lot without objecting or rising up, because that's what God commands. Be longsuffering. Be meek. If the man slaps you, offer him your other cheek. Do you have enemies? Love them. Pray for them, even.
Despite calling itself a religion of love, Christianity is a religion of submission and obedience. The only path to salvation over perdition is to submit to the will of its god. Elsewhere, we read that subjects must submit to kings, slaves to slaveholders, and women to men. The SOTM is a part of that message. Stand down and allow yourselves to be controlled and exploited. Your reward will come after you die, or, if you disobey, your punishment will be severe.
Who benefits from that advice? Not the people being advised to take it. I don't consider that good advice, and I wouldn't teach my children such things. By my humanist standards, Jesus simply isn't the moral exemplar others claim. And it seems that you agree, but for different reasons.
"How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." - Napoleon Bonaparte
And those are the ones i feel for. And in a different way, for the other half, it's sad that people can be such horrible people.
They have no idea what horror awaits them.
Booowhahahhahahahhahahhahhahha, etc!
Clizby Wampuscat
Well-Known Member
I agree with what you said.
The SOTM can be spun to make good ideas or teachings but taken literally much of it is bad advice in my opinion.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Maybe that depends on which "God" one believes.
Colt
Well-Known Member
There is a reason for the old saying “the best time to go to France is when they are all on holiday, leaving the imported help to deal with”.
jbg
Active Member
I am not a Christian but I am with the Christians on this one. They are doing everything they can to destroy organized society.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
VoidCat
Pronouns: he/they/it/neopronouns
im a scary transperson....i will destroy society by *checks notes* opening up myself to discrimination, constantly being misgendered, being an outcast in many groups, getting shots every two weeks, not being able to travel to some countries cuz imprisonment or death pentalty, having difficulty finding clothes that fit, be more likely to be murdered, make it less likely for me to get a job, and just all around make my life more difficult for myself cuz I can...
I mean sure i believe being trans is a deeply spiritual thing but like most of us our just trying to live our lives.
Hoping to get everyone one the same page, the conspiracy if true is that marxism is an ideal which has taken root in universities and then grown wings into a conspiracy. The conspiracy is stated clearly by Dr. James Lindsay who says that there is a movement to overturn the way western civilization functions.
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https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-lindsay
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/how-cultural-marxism-threatens-the-united-states-and-how-americans-can-fight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._LindsayThis is the complaint and the fear that most people are unable to articulate but which echoes in the conservative and in the right wing areas of media, bolstered by various real events such as clearly racist DEI hiring practices and the apparent disregard for feminists once they were no longer of use to the marxist movement. Lindsay claims that to achieve marxist aims that change itself must be continually fought for and all norms destroyed, and so while transexual rights are claimed to be the battleground it is actually just another temporary scaffold to be torn down later and transexuals trodden underfoot just as women before them.
Now really this has to be discussed in a separate thread; but that is the issue as conservatives declare it in media...all over. Its all over the media.