It's all about watching Kalle Anka and Karl-Bertil Jonsson
		Lews_TherinThelamon Send a noteboard - 27/05/2012 07:40:45 PM
		
	
		
			
				Eating knäck and drinking julmust. Fo' sho'!
			
		
	
	
			For Our Nordmenn:  What Happens to Federal Religious Holidays in the Absence of a State Church?
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 01:33:20 PM
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			Nothing, they are federal holidays still because of strong unions, not religion
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 06:58:52 PM
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			Hypocrisy FTW, eh?  - 27/05/2012 11:04:38 PM
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	     - 27/05/2012 11:04:38 PM
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	         - 27/05/2012 11:04:38 PM
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			No.
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 11:16:11 PM
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			Again, some people manifestly care; just not enough to relinquish a paid holiday.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 01:48:26 AM
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			Nothing.
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 07:03:07 PM
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			Replacing it with another, secular, holiday seems the responsible thing to do.
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 11:15:11 PM
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			People. Don't. Care.
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 11:29:07 PM
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			If people did not care, disestablishmentarianism (and its antithesis) would not exist.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 01:41:18 AM
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			Most of them are stolen from heden traditions and have nothing to do with christianity.
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 07:15:55 PM
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			It's all about watching Kalle Anka and Karl-Bertil Jonsson
		
	         - 27/05/2012 07:40:45 PM
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			Since two resident history buffs recently excoriated me for that claim, I have no wish to revisit it
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 11:27:13 PM
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			Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday.
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 08:43:58 PM
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			That is rather debatable.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 12:08:53 AM
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			The Distinction
	    
	         - 29/05/2012 07:41:47 PM
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			Thanksgiving was a purely federal institution. FDR dictated the date it's celebrated
	    
	         - 30/05/2012 03:22:09 AM
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			That distinction would be an almost wholly Roman Catholic (or possibly Greek Orthodox) one.
	    
	         - 01/06/2012 01:47:12 AM
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			How do you come to four for Canada?
	    
	         - 27/05/2012 11:29:57 PM
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			Because I counted Thankgiving, and holidays for federal employees rather than just statutory ones.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 02:03:55 AM
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			Re: Because I counted Thankgiving, and holidays for federal employees rather...
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 04:31:14 AM
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			Well, you know better than I, but I found the 1580s date interesting.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 04:08:31 PM
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			Re: Well, you no better than I, but I found the 1580s date interesting.
	    
	         - 29/05/2012 01:15:52 AM
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			Ireland has a tonne of religious public holidays yet no state religion.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 12:48:55 AM
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			I wondered how that would shake out for the rest of Europe, or at least Western Europe.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 02:29:16 AM
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			It's funny how you use "federal" to mean "mandated by national government".
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 03:49:17 PM
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			I was thinking more "central" government, but OK.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 04:26:38 PM
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			Re: I was thinking more "central" government, but OK.
	    
	         - 28/05/2012 04:50:32 PM
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			Re: I was thinking more "central" government, but OK.
	    
	         - 01/06/2012 02:03:40 AM
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			I think you've got the Scotland Act backwards.
	    
	         - 01/06/2012 09:48:36 AM
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			There's a lot of countries that call "devolution" federalism, though.
	    
	         - 01/06/2012 09:52:23 PM
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			What about when most of the country is still under central control?
	    
	         - 02/06/2012 10:25:47 AM
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