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Bazza wrote:

jardine wrote: I think people are over reacting to this. The NRL have been doing it for years, its nothing new.

And churchies really get on their soapbox's, which I find amazing considering every weekend of every year the church is on show. Football is 6 months of the year, church is 12 months.

Games on Christmas Day and all of that fluff, well what are we talking about here its just getting silly. And telling people they should go to work on Good Friday if they are not religious. Well then lets go to work on the Queens Birthday because we don't bow to her holiness, Or go to work on Labour Day because (Dunno what that day is to be honest) But I will take it.

Its a 2 hour footy game, its not the end of mankind for Christ sake.

yeah taking it just as a day off - with no knowledge at all of the meaning, pretty much sums this up...pity players won't have the luxury.

Btw labor Day marks the 8 hour working day ...

Queends Birthday is not even celebrated in UK with a public holiday, no idea why we do here, thats another one that should go,,in any case both these days are secular national holidays that everyone can mark..regardless of religion.

the only reason Easter and Christams are holidays are purely due to theur religious meaning, and date from a time when 90% of Australians identified themselves as Christians and 80% went to church on a regular basis, the reason people were given the day off was to make religious observations.

the biggest religion now is money, and fatest growing is No Religion..

so what relevance is any longer? as a few on here have said they will just use it a day off to go to the footy.

Why are Muslims forced to take an obselete Christian Dayy off?? if most Australians will be drinking piss at the footy and dont give a rats arse,,,

Perhaps its time we just ditched it all togther as we are no longer a christian country in practice.,

why don't we give people a choice? if you're religious then observe the religious holiday's and have Easter and Xmas off...if you're not then go to work and use the religious days off in lieu as annual leave at a time it suits you.

I think in a democracy (we live in it) you have the right to just enjoy a day off without being ridiculed for not having an intimate attachment to the day. Ask any child what Christmas is all about and most of them will say Santa Claws and presents. Maybe the cold hearted will make the little tackers go to school. And those with the holier than thou attitude will also pour scorn on the kids for wanting Easter Eggs on Good Friday, rather than spending the day in a church.

People need to get real and understand its a free world. The day is a public holiday. In my book life is too short to be picky about a few days off a year we may or may not deserve. But given how hard most people work, I say enjoy the day however you like. I have never lost an ounce of sleep worrying about whether I deserved the day off. I couldn't care less. That is called freedom to choose. I choose to have the day off, and do what I like with it. I will worry about it when I go to hell.

jardine wrote: I think in a democracy (we live in it) you have the right to just enjoy a day off without being ridiculed for not having an intimate attachment to the day. Ask any child what Christmas is all about and most of them will say Santa Claws and presents. Maybe the cold hearted will make the little tackers go to school. And those with the holier than thou attitude will also pour scorn on the kids for wanting Easter Eggs on Good Friday, rather than spending the day in a church.

People need to get real and understand its a free world. The day is a public holiday. In my book life is too short to be picky about a few days off a year we may or may not deserve. But given how hard most people work, I say enjoy the day however you like. I have never lost an ounce of sleep worrying about whether I deserved the day off. I couldn't care less. That is called freedom to choose. I choose to have the day off, and do what I like with it. I will worry about it when I go to hell.

That's it in a nutshell.

If a player doesn't want to play ok, the clubs will honour that. I'm sure some people here will find fault with anything - just for a whinge

Personally dont give rats either way. most things today are open slather anyway, fair nuff too. if/when?, things go haywire becuse of the belief of open slather, then we will reap what may happen. Once all"traditions" go out the window go out the window so be it. perhaps, some of these like not being allowed to have xmas nativity celebrations at public schools and the furore that follows is maybe an example of repercussions?????
P.S not that i am religious anyway.

Basically religion is the root of all evil, it has caused the most trouble in life, world wars, terrorism etc, the sooner people realize the better. The world would be a much better place if religion didn't exist.

thefalconstrike wrote: Basically religion is the root of all evil, it has caused the most trouble in life, world wars, terrorism etc, the sooner people realize the better. The world would be a much better place if religion didn't exist.

What religion did Hitler represent?

You idiot, he believed the Jews were poison.

thefalconstrike wrote: You idiot, he believed the Jews were poison.

Err he wanted to take over the world irrespective of religion. I didnt realise the "master race" was going to be a specific religion.



Ordo-Ab-Chao answered 3 years ago

Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called "Master Race."

But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.

Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype

If religion and greed were wiped from the face of this earth then everyone would live in a much happier place. Unfortunately this is never going to happen, especially the greed side of things.

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Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype[/quote]
I thought Eugenics were Collingwood supporters?