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"North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) " When will NORAD start celebrating the Great Wiccan Sabbats, including Samhain ? Should a secular nation's
by KnuthIsGod 4y ago
"North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
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When will NORAD start celebrating the Great Wiccan Sabbats, including Samhain ?
Should a secular nation's military be promoting one religion's holiday ? Do NORAD do anything similar for Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Yazidi, or Wiccan celebrations ?
- roughly 4y agoTake this as a positive, rather than a normative, statement: there’s a state religion in the US, and Christmas is one of its holidays. The prime actor in American Christmas is Santa Claus, as made famous by the Coca Cola company in the early 20th century. You can draw some line between the Christian celebration around the 25th and the modern American holiday known as Christmas, but it’s roughly the same relation as the Christian holiday had with its solstice predecessors. Christmas in the 21st century in America is a predominantly commercial affair, any relationship to any prior religious celebrations is largely coincidental at this point.