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BBC to scrap the use of AD and BC,polical correctness gone mad.

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    #212
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    Snakeblood wrote: »
    Because it's a religious festival that doesn't apply to everyone

    Eid and Ramadan are religious festivals that don't apply to everyone but nobody expects Muslims to pretend that they aren't religious festivals in case they offend non-Muslims. Unlike the meek, soft PC Brigade, Muslims aren't bothered if their religion "offends" other religions.
    It's up to people who are afflicted with that particular religion to celebrate it.

    The vast majority of people in Ireland and the UK are Christians. Therefore the vast majority of people of both countries have a right to celebrate Easter as a religious holiday.
    Forcing other people to live how you want them to is crap.

    Nobody is forcing people to celebrate Easter. What I'm saying is that it is wrong to deliberately take away all the religious links from Easter when the whole point of Easter is as a religious festival.

    These atheists and members of the PC Brigade are hypocrities: they hate Christianity and its religious festivals and anything to do with Christianity but they would still rather keep Easter and Christmas - two religious festivals - so that they can have time off work rather than do away with them completely and go to work.


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    #213
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    aparantly right. you cant have sex during ramadan in case a muslim hears you. political correctness gone mad!


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    #214
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    Batsy wrote: »
    Eid and Ramadan are religious festivals that don't apply to everyone but nobody expects Muslims to pretend that they aren't religious festivals in case they offend non-Muslims. Unlike the meek, soft PC Brigade, Muslims aren't bothered if their religion "offends" other religions.
    And Eid and Ramadan don't get shoved down people's throats to remotely the same extent that Easter and Christmas do. At a certain point, things change meaning. That's how Christianity took Easter and Christmas from the pagans after all. Learn to accept that things change, like the pagans did.

    The vast majority of people in Ireland and the UK are Christians. Therefore the vast majority of people of both countries have a right to celebrate Easter as a religious holiday.
    And they have every right to. Except most of them seem to do it by chugging down eggs, the old pagan symbol from the celebration that (again) Christianity overwrote.

    Nobody is forcing people to celebrate Easter. What I'm saying is that it is wrong to deliberately take away all the religious links from Easter when the whole point of Easter is as a religious festival.
    People can still go to church right? So they still can celebrate Easter, right? Or do you just want to force people to celebrate the way you think they should? PC GONE MAD.

    These atheists and members of the PC Brigade are hypocrities: they hate Christianity and its religious festivals and anything to do with Christianity but they would still rather keep Easter and Christmas - two religious festivals - so that they can have time off work rather than do away with them completely and go to work.

    That's not hypocrisy, that's wanting a day off work. You could call it handshandy week and I'd take it. Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.


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    #215
    Peetrik
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    Batsy wrote: »
    they hate Christianity and its religious festivals ....Easter and Christmas - two religious festivals

    Actually both originally Pagan festivals ursurped by christianity.
    Snakeblood wrote: »
    You could call it handshandy week and I'd take it.

    There really really should be a han'shandy week, or at the very least maybe a half day

    1) It truely is a thing to be joyous for that everyone can celebrate
    2) The practice far outdates christianity


    To address the original topic, I dont see any point in changing the AD, BC usage. Its just kicking the anthill really.
    Lets keep the AD/BC thing but get rid of the abuse of power thing


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    #216
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Peetrik wrote: »
    Actually both originally Pagan festivals ursurped by christianity.



    There really really should be a han'shandy week, or at the very least maybe a half day

    1) It truely is a thing to be joyous for that everyone can celebrate
    2) The practice far outdates christianity


    To address the original topic, I dont see any point in changing the AD, BC usage. Its just kicking the anthill really.
    Lets keep the AD/BC thing but get rid of the abuse of power thing

    they didnt change it. it says in the article they didnt change it.


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    #217
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    apparantly you cant even call profoundly mentally challenged people 'daily mail readers' anymore, because its offensive to profoundly mentally challenged people. political correctness gone mad


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    #218
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    sensibleken wrote: »
    they didnt change it. it says in the article they didnt change it.
    Stop being so sensible, Ken. That doesn't mean Jack Shit and you know it. The Daily Mail are outraged and that means all right-thinking people should be outraged too.

    PC GONE MAD!!!!!!!! BLOODY MUSLIMS!!!!!!!! DAMN LEFTY-PINKO-LIBERALS!!!!!!!!!


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    #219
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Batsy wrote: »
    Why celebrate Good Friday and deliberately make no reference to the fact that it isn't a religious festival but merely a day to stuff your face with chocolate?

    Wait...Good Friday comes before Easter Sunday, so why would celebrating good Friday simply be an excuse to stuff your face with chocolate?

    Lrn2Religion.


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    #220
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Snakeblood wrote: »
    Batsy wrote: »
    Eid and Ramadan are religious festivals that don't apply to everyone but nobody expects Muslims to pretend that they aren't religious festivals in case they offend non-Muslims. Unlike the meek, soft PC Brigade, Muslims aren't bothered if their religion "offends" other religions.
    And Eid and Ramadan don't get shoved down people's throats to remotely the same extent that Easter and Christmas do. At a certain point, things change meaning. That's how Christianity took Easter and Christmas from the pagans after all. Learn to accept that things change, like the pagans did.

    The vast majority of people in Ireland and the UK are Christians. Therefore the vast majority of people of both countries have a right to celebrate Easter as a religious holiday.
    And they have every right to. Except most of them seem to do it by chugging down eggs, the old pagan symbol from the celebration that (again) Christianity overwrote.

    Nobody is forcing people to celebrate Easter. What I'm saying is that it is wrong to deliberately take away all the religious links from Easter when the whole point of Easter is as a religious festival.
    People can still go to church right? So they still can celebrate Easter, right? Or do you just want to force people to celebrate the way you think they should? PC GONE MAD.

    These atheists and members of the PC Brigade are hypocrities: they hate Christianity and its religious festivals and anything to do with Christianity but they would still rather keep Easter and Christmas - two religious festivals - so that they can have time off work rather than do away with them completely and go to work.

    That's not hypocrisy, that's wanting a day off work. You could call it handshandy week and I'd take it. Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

    Christmas and Easter aren't rammed down anyone's throats. They are just important holidays in Western countries. You're welcome not to participate but don't expect everyone else to stop.

    There were numerous events for Eid and Ramadan in my area over here due to the large Islamic population with lots of
    publicity. Although I didn't practice I didn't regard it as shoving Islam down my throat. Likewise to say that of Easter or Christmas is absurd.


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    #221
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Stop being so sensible, Ken. That doesn't mean Jack Shit and you know it. The Daily Mail are outraged and that means all right-thinking people should be outraged too.

    PC GONE MAD!!!!!!!! BLOODY MUSLIMS!!!!!!!! DAMN LEFTY-PINKO-LIBERALS!!!!!!!!!

    id call it a white wash but you cant say that anymore aparantely in case it offends the irish


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    #222
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    philologos wrote: »
    Christmas and Easter aren't rammed down anyone's throats. They are just important holidays in Western countries. You're welcome not to participate but don't expect everyone else to.

    There were numerous events for Eid and Ramadan in my area over here due to the large Islamic population with lots of
    publicity. Although I didn't practice I didn't regard it as shoving Islam down my throat. Likewise to say that of Easter or Christmas is absurd.

    I'm not complaining that people are being forced to participate (apart from Good Friday). I think saying they're being rammed down people's throats is pretty reasonable, to be honest. Selection boxes by October? Decorations all over the shops? I ask you.

    Christmas and Easter are celebrated widely and yet Batsy is complaining that they're being taken away from him, or her.


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    #223
    losthorizon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    You'll find that Jesus himself hated the terms AD/BC as he was born in about 7 bc! The bastard!


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    #224
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Snakeblood wrote: »
    philologos wrote: »
    Christmas and Easter aren't rammed down anyone's throats. They are just important holidays in Western countries. You're welcome not to participate but don't expect everyone else to.

    There were numerous events for Eid and Ramadan in my area over here due to the large Islamic population with lots of
    publicity. Although I didn't practice I didn't regard it as shoving Islam down my throat. Likewise to say that of Easter or Christmas is absurd.

    I'm not complaining that people are being forced to participate (apart from Good Friday). I think saying they're being rammed down people's throats is pretty reasonable, to be honest. Selection boxes by October? Decorations all over the shops? I ask you.

    Christmas and Easter are celebrated widely and yet Batsy is complaining that they're being taken away from him, or her.

    The decorations are there due to demand. Much like if I go to my local supermarket I'll see huge halal and kosher sections. Islam and Judaism are pretty common in pockets of London. I'm not offended.

    Christmas will be around due to demand. Sometimes expecting society to change just for you is profoundly selfish? Should I expect shops to stop facilitating Muslims? Or pharmacists to stop offering Hajji vaccinations sponsored by Muslim Council of Britain? Of course not! We tolerate. If you're intolerant of Christmas don't expect society to bend over backwards for you.


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    #225
    losthorizon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    I think you will find that a holiday period existed in late december before there were christians believe or not. It was just hi-jacked by the christian community. If The christian thing had never caught on we would still have our holidays over the same period and follow some of the same traditions.


    Its like what the Catholic church did in Peru by uniting the native and catholic religions. It works and people eventually forget about the pagan festival that was originally there.


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    #226
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    4leto wrote: »
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    So now if they want to strip it of BC or AD, why not get rid of the rest of religion in our calendar.

    This is a stupid exercise. It is just misguided political correctness. As I tot this out on the Sunsday.

    I propose they change the days of the week to

    Oneday
    Twoday
    Threeday
    Fourday
    Fiveday
    Sixday
    Sevenday


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