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Freedom to decide your Days of Rest

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | other press author Friday April 04, 2008 22:43author by secularist Report this post to the editors

Like many sophisticated freethinkers & well honed intellectually rigorous atheists or agnostics, I've gone far past the stage of being fed up with the Capitalist system obliging me to holidays on the 25th of December, Easter, 17th of March & so on all the bloody year. I want to work 28 days straight and save up my "Sabbath" days & add them on to my statutory entitlements. I'm sick of being exploited by tourist agencies by a macro-cultural I'm sure most clever people like me, foam at the mouth of.

I thus propose tippy toppy types join me in rejecting the proposals made one month ago of Matthew Ryan, president of the Irish Hotels Federation to end the moveable feast of Easter.

I don't want an Easter on the same day every year.

I want my own Easter equivalent holiday.
It could be in July, it could be in August.
IT could be just after the 26th of December.

If atheists don't support me on this they're lame. You've got to do more for free thought than just slag off Jesus and Muslims, scoff at Tibetans & tease Mormons!

Reading Percy Shelley & Dawkins aint enough!!!!

You've got to think - for yourself - exercise your monkey reason & justify not having a God.

Related Link: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/time-to-end-the-moveable-feast-of-easter-say-hoteliers-130

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Stroppy Christians demand the right...     lulu    Sat Apr 05, 2008 15:42 
   Sure why not?     Miss Read    Sat Apr 05, 2008 17:25 
   I'm sick of not being able to buy a drink from atheist vintners on Good Friday too.     secularist    Sat Apr 05, 2008 19:31 
   Let's push our common grevience forward! .........The implications for the Lisbon Vote.     secularist    Sat Apr 05, 2008 23:33 


 
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