"Happy holidays" is bullshit Christian normativity.

Shaziro · Post Post #1475 (isolation #0) » Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:33 am

This thread is pretty dumb I guess. Happy holidays to me just means the holiday season of like, Thanksgiving onwards where you get breaks off of school and whatnot.

Shaziro · Post Post #1512 (isolation #1) » Thu Dec 29, 2016 7:47 pm

You are assuming that he didn't think you were a dickhead and was, in turn a dick to you. Yet you refuse to assume the same for others.

Shaziro · Post Post #1518 (isolation #2) » Fri Dec 30, 2016 7:44 am

You know. There is a small line between TSO and TSQ.

Shaziro · Post Post #1521 (isolation #3) » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:40 am

...I was making a joke about how Q and O are a small line different.

Shaziro · Post Post #1548 (isolation #4) » Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:26 pm

Their own personal ethics. You realize that people who don't think they have to answer to a god still have to answer to -themselves- right? Personally, I'm religious, but if you can't understand that ethics and morals are not a matter of believing in a god then I don't know what to tell you.

Shaziro · Post Post #1551 (isolation #5) » Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:13 pm

Eagersnake, I'm also from the US, people have ethics. You may not agree with some of them, that's fine, but they are there. Laws are made, among other reasons, to enforce particular ethics that we as a society find important enough to punish officially those who break them. You are shifting your argument from "Atheists don't have a reason to have ethics because they don't think a god will punish them, therefore if they don't get caught so what" to "Oh people in the US don't have ethics, unless it's against the law". That's dumb. Don't be dumb.

Shaziro · Post Post #1556 (isolation #6) » Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:55 pm

Or, the more blatant example given by Penn of Penn and Teller. "I'm not religious, and because of that, I've killed exactly as many people as I want to. None. A big fat goose egg."

Shaziro · Post Post #1601 (isolation #7) » Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:26 am

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, folks

Shaziro · Post Post #1644 (isolation #8) » Tue Dec 26, 2017 7:41 am

I don't think somebody saying "In my experience, many Muslim and Sikh families do celebrate Christmas" is any more invalidating of your experiences than you saying "In my experience, few Muslim and Sikh families celebrate Christmas".

Shaziro · Post Post #1686 (isolation #9) » Wed Dec 27, 2017 6:22 am

In post 1684, Kublai Khan wrote:
In post 1672, Vijarada wrote:khan was saying that he gets annoyed whenever jesus is mentioned at a wedding. nero said that weddings are religious. he's clearly just saying that some people see it that way, and khan shouldn't be surprised or annoyed.

this whole conversation is odd.
Well, it's more that I know the people getting married well and I know they never set foot in churches. They have no personal relationship with any clergy and pretty much only hire them for the ceremony (usually a gesture for their parents or extended family). Then that priest usually takes a moment during someone else wedding to talk about how great God and Jesus are. To me it always comes off as a crass advertisement.

I might be alone on this so feel free to ignore my ranting.

If they brought the person in as a gesture for parents/extended family, maybe they want the guy to talk up religion as a gesture for parents/extended family too? That's been the case in several weddings I've attended.