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Systemic Faithism? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day
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and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, twenty seventh
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day of November. Hi, I'm Wes, Thanks for joining me. Welcome
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back. Took the week off. I did a Mate of Stars show last
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week. Sean and I were able to take care of that on Wednesday of
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last week, so we did that show. But that was the only real
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work I did last week. I was able to get some time with family
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and it was much needed time with family. I hope you were able to
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spend some time with yours and I hope you had a good Thanksgiving, And
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really the whole weekend for us was productive in a lot of ways. Took
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some time to certainly be thankful and appreciate a lot of things, because this
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is, if nothing else, the time to do that. I always tell
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my friends that this is a shift, but it's just the mindset thing for
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me. I think Thanksgiving is important in that regard and that you it's a
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you know, we're the only first country to do that, I guess,
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but the opportunity to just take a minute, take a breath, take a
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beat, and be thankful, And I feel like I was gonna say I
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tell my friends that sometimes I remember one friend in particular as mom passed away,
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and I went to the visitation the night before the funeral and spent some
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time with him and with the rest of his family that day, and the
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next day I went to the funeral and he's like, you didn't have to
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come with the funeral, man, you came yesterday. And I said,
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well, yesterday was for you, today is for me. This is my
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reminder. The funeral to me is a reminder that you know, there's a
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clock and it's ticking for all of us. Don't want to get heavy,
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don't want to get deep and get depressing or anything starting off our week and
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and back after getting some time off. But I feel like that also applies
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like to Thanksgiving. It's just a time to reflect. It's a time to
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be thankful for a lot of things. I know we have those moments where
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it seems like the world has gone mad. There's certainly plenty of examples of
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that. We've got this situation in Ireland that's now on the board and it
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feels like there's just a world war brewing. And I mean it there's all
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these things that just feel like tipping points, and many of them circle around
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immigration or lack of immigration or whatever. And it feels so intense right now,
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and it feels like there's so many cases of people that have just lost
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their minds and there's no common sense. We've lost our ability to rationalize things,
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and it's just it's very frustrating. So taking a few moments to appreciate
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what we do have and where we currently are is certainly helpful. And that's
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part of what the holiday is all about. That and eating some food.
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And I hope you were able to eat some good food and spend some time
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with loved ones. I hope all of that applied. So couple things,
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and I want to also mention this, and I'll quickly just talk about the
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Nutcracker and the Mother Ginger Tea Party. One of my regular listeners, Ben
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messaged me and said he got his tickets for the Mother Ginger Tea Party.
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He's excited about bringing his daughter to that. And he also said, oh,
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and make sure to let your listeners know there's a ten percent discount when
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you sign up for that on your tickets for the Nutcrackers. So it's another
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bonus that goes along with it when you do that. So thanks for the
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reminder on that. And I think I mentioned it once, but I don't
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think I've been mentioning it each time. But again, if you're getting tickets
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for The Nutcracker and it's December sixteenth and seventeenth or the show dates, the
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Mother Ginger Tea is lunchtime on the sixteenth, which is the Saturday before the
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evening show. If you're getting a tickets, don't get them from a third
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party seller. Make sure to get them through the River Center, through the
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River Center box office. Ben was telling me he actually got them for even
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cheaper by going actually into the River Center, so it's another plus to the
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whole thing. So but really looking forward to it. Information is on the
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Columbus Ballet dot org. That's the website for the Columbus Ballet. And we're
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gonna have a good time putting on that show again, okay, And I
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am insanely excited about it. But I'm trying not to just spend giant chunks
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of the show today talking about The Nutcracker because I want to talk about back
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to this topic of people losing their mind and lack of common sense, and
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I want to make sure to preface that this particular story is not about the
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US, it's about Canada, and it's but you can't help but feel that
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this is a real possibility of making its way across the border into the States,
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and maybe it's already made its way into the States. I don't know.
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There probably are a number of people ready to start using this term.
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I mean, I think there's already people that are there when it comes to
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the premise of what the complaint is. But there's a new term that comes
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into this, and I feel like, if it's not already in the States,
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it's coming. So the Canadian Human Rights Commission has decided basically that the
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practice in Canada of holidays of Christian significance is an evidence of religious intolerance.
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So Christmas and Easter are the two main ones they've got issues with, and
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they basically say that Canada should work towards eradicating the religious intolerance of those holidays,
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of the fact that the country practices those holidays, And they basically say
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that here we go, that there's the systemic racism that's a persistent problem in
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Canada. This is from a quote and they say that now they need to
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focus on systemic faithism. Yeah, there, it is systemic faithism. They
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say that religious intolerance can materialize in many ways, from microaggressions to lack of
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accommodation and acceptance of religious practices. Uh okay oh, And as a result,
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non Christians may need to request special accommodations to observe their holy days and
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other times of the year where religious religion requires them to abstain from work.
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All right, now, I'm gonna confess I have not really done a full
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deep dive into what this paper says. But I'm gonna We're gonna come back
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across the border where I can speak a little more intelligently about the laws that
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we have here. There have been people here that have been advocating for,
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you know, not acknowledging any sort of Christian holidays here in the States.
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That's been something they feel that, you know, we've had this push to
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not say Merry Christmas, but to say happy Holidays. That one's not really
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bothered me the way that it bothers some people. And it's interesting the way
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some people get worked up about it. The use of X mess which the
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X means Christ but so No, they're putting an X in the place of
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Christ. They're trying to eliminate that that one. There was a time where
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I just didn't really know better, and I think I thought I got worked
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up about that one again. That one doesn't bother me. X means Christ,
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That's what it means. Don't have a problem with that one either,
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And if you do, that's fine. I don't mean it to be insulting
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when I say don't know better. For me, I was coming from a
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place of ignorance about it, and I got to a place where I'm comfortable
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with it. It might not be my favorite way to refer to it,
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but that's all I mean by that. So I do feel that we're in
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a time, in a place in America, and we have been for a
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while now where I feel like I don't think it's about eliminating religion for the
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purposes of eliminating religion. I think it's about trying to eliminate the church from
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its role in our society because our founders assumed that communities would take care of
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each other when we were in times of crisis. When farmers, you know,
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early on, if the crop didn't come in, if one person's crop
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just didn't happen. Other people in the community took care of them, oftentimes
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through the churches. You know, teachers were paid through the community, sometimes
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just in housing and food and you know, very small amount of money.
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That was the way it worked. It wasn't a case of we're going to
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tax everyone and have you know, unions for the teachers that are going to
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create voting blocks. And what's the spider web mentality, We're stronger a spider
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can take down a lion with other spiders working together. That mindset that comes
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into play with unions and things. So I do believe that anytime you see
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an attack on faith in general, I think it's often sort of an attack
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on being able to push aside churches from being able to help because the government
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wants us to depend on them. That's what they want. They don't want
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they don't want churches stepping in and helping a family and need. They want
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a family in need to turn to them for help and then have them in
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a position where they're going to always need that help, because why would you
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not vote for a politician that's promising to always take care of your needs to
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keep you, you know, with your hand out. That's what they want.
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That's a way to control you, and that's a way to buy your
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vote. And I've told this story many times, but I have a friend
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who's now passed away, but she told me when she was a kid,
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the town that she lived in basically gave her family a home. They gave
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a few families homes because it was something that had been put into place by
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the mayor at the time, and her family was picked as one of them
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that would went a home, and that they weren't a place where they really
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needed a home, they needed somewhere to stay, and it really helped them
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out. And that because the mayor was a Democrat, she voted Democrat or
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whole life out of obligation as a way to pay them back for this house
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that was given to them. And I think that's a perfect example. And
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I remember asking her, like, you don't see that that could be deemed
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as a problem, especially for the people who didn't get homes, or maybe
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for the people who donated to help make it happen, or the taxpayers who
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help make it happen. She no, she did not, She didn't see
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that as a problem at all. But I do I do see where that
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can be a problem. So I do think that there is an attack on
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churches for that reason. I think that there are a lot of people in
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our government that do not want churches playing that role of someone who can help,
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someone who can actually step in. Hey, your house burned down.
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Let us do what we can to help get you set back up and back
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functioning again. You lost your job, You're in a bad way. You
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need food. You know, There's always been a role for churches in filling
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that need. I don't think that that's what a lot in our government want
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there to be. I don't think they want communities helping out. I think
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they want someone there to assist. This, of course, is much bigger
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than that, because this that's happening in Canada is more of a case of
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specifically targeting Christianity, because as you know, there's only certain groups that can
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be targeted. You can't target many faith groups. I'm not going to name
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the ones you can't target. I'll name the ones you can. Christians and
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the Jewish temples. That's two. That's two churches that you're allowed to attack.
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In some cases, the Christian churches are doing their own damage within their
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own walls. But that's another conversation for another time. This is a specific
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incidence here where they're saying that it's intolerant to allow people in a country.
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By the way, Canada is sixty three point two percent of the population is
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they considered Christian, sixty three point two percent of the country would practice.
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And some people who practice Christian holidays like Christmas specifically, aren't necessarily religious.
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They're not necessarily doing it because of Christmas being anything that with a religious connotation
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to it. They're just celebrating the holiday. You may or may not know,
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but really the celebration ties into basically, the Church took the holiday away
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from the Pagans. This time of year was probably not the actual birth of
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Christ. It would have been probably in the spring. Shepherds were out in
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the field. They weren't doing that in late December. But the holiday,
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the celebration of it, became this day because it was already a day for
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celebrate and gathering and it was the right time of year for it, and
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they said, we're going to make this our holiday, and they did.
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That's the story behind picking that time of year. It related to the winter
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solstice, and some people I know some people who still celebrate that. They
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don't necessarily even celebrate Christmas, but it all ties into that time of year.
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So some people are celebrating Christmas just because it's a holiday, just because
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it's time to spend with family, and it's consumerism and it's all those sorts
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of things that tie into it. For those of us that actually celebrate it
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as a religious holiday, we're celebrating the other things too. There's other aspects
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of the holiday, and some of that sadly does tie into consumerism and all
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that other stuff. But all that's there, but it just means a little
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bit more to those that are actually celebrating it as a Christian holiday. Easter
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is very much a religious holiday, absolutely, but no one's for to participate
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in either of the holidays. Many do participate in one or both of those
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holidays for different reasons. Business owners certainly don't have a problem with it when
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it helps them close out the year with a solid sales book, right,
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they want that, so trying to take it away and like I said,
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come back into stateside where here. If you don't want to participate in a
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holiday, you certainly don't have to. Schools have made it clear that they're
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not going to do that. My son's school just had a Dwali dance in
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celebration. Pretty sure they refer to any of the holidays in the month of
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December as winter holidays. I don't think they refer to it as Christmas at
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all. But the Dwali celebration that they had, the Duali dance, certainly
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has religious connotations to it. They're allowed to say that, and that's fine.
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I didn't I don't mind that at all. There's many kids whose families
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would be celebrating Dwali at this particular school. That's fine. My family doesn't
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celebrate Dwali. We don't do that. But there was a school dance for
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it, and there were many kids there, and it's a cultural thing that
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were able to eat some different foods. That's what was happening at the school
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at the dance, But no one was forced to participate in it. It
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was completely optional. And that's also the same for Christmas and Easter and any
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of the holidays. If you want to tell me that your religion requires you
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to not work on a certain day, I think that's a valid reason to
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take a day off from work. If that's actually a religious reason if you're
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just taking the day off of work, because you can say it the old
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Zach Morris from say by the Beltrick. No, but if you're going to
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say, hey, this is my faith. But I also think Christians should
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be afforded the same thing. Right. Remember, there's been a number of
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people who've lost their jobs because they didn't want to work on Sunday for religious
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reasons, and there's no accommodation made for that. And there are many that
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seem to think, well, they should have worked. That's when they knew
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they were supposed to work. So this should cover everyone across the board equally,
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shouldn't it? For us? Here in America, there's no national religion
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and there's nothing could be put on the books to force one or to limit
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your ability to celebrate your religion as you see fit. They're not allowed to
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stop you from doing that. We don't have a freedom from religion in America.
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People seem to think that we do. We don't. We really don't.
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And this notion of separation from church and state, that's not from the
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Constitution. The founders didn't put that in there. I would have a problem
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if someone was forcing my children to participate. If they were forced to go
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to the Dwali dance, I'd have a problem with that. I liked that
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it was an option. I think it's great good. The kids that want
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to go to that can go to that. The kids that don't don't have
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to go to that. There's no extra credit, there's no bonus involved in
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it. It's just an event that kids were able to participate in. I'm
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all for that. Let's do that, let's do that. Why can't What
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is this concept now? And of course this is what's now bleeding in and
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is this term systemic faithism starts to make its way and if it's not here,
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it's coming. I'm telling you this is going to be a thing.
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We go through, this notion of systemic racism because just by calling it systemic
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means there's nothing you can do that prevents you from participating in it, because
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you're participating in it just by existing. And once it's systemic faithism, it's
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the same thing. You can't there's no arguing against it, there's no debating
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it, there's no discussing it. It's there, it exists, and you
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are part of the problem because you exist. That's it. There's no other
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reason for there to be a problem other than the fact that you exist and
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it exists. So you're the problem, and that's just it. You have
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to deal with it. You just have to deal It's there. Racism,
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faithism, they're just there, and there's nothing you can do to separate yourself
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from it, no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do.
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It's an unwinnable battle. It's a non winnable fight. You just have
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to accept the fact you're the problem and that the people that are affected by
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it on the quote unquote negative side can do whatever they want to do to
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try to make it more fair, to balance it out, even though there's
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really nothing that can be done because it's systemic. It's there, there's nothing
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you It's an unfixable problem. It's like climate change. It's an unfixable problem.
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