by Anura Guruge
on March 29, 2024
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I just can’t get used to this. The MOST IMPORTANT day in Christianity and it is NOT a holiday.
I get caught out each year BECAUSE the STOCK MARKET is closed. My life revolves around the stock market because I TRADE every day. SMILE. Terrible thing … addiction. I am addicted to trading. It could be worse. I could addicted to something that costs money.
I saw mail being delivered. I was taken aback — though we now have USPS parcel delivery on Sundays thanks to Amazon.
But, I had to check. Good Friday is NOT a federal holiday. How can that be.
Growing up, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) & in the U.K., both Good Friday & Easter Monday were holidays. 4-day holiday.
It would be a disgrace to any country without an official religion to have such a blatantly religious occasion be an official holiday.
THANK YOU for pointing out that the U.S. is a country without an official religion. How remiss of I to not know that. Yes, U.S. the most secular country next to Turkey. I forgot that way back in 1870 Christmas was deemed one of the 4 FEDERAL HOLIDAYS to promote year end sales and had nothing, whatsoever, to do with the official designated birthday of the most famous Jew of all time. Yes, Christmas is a Federal Holiday purely for commercial reasons. Plus. the Pledge does say: “One Nation UNDER Louis” and the currency (quite rightly) “In LOUIS WE TRUST”. Yes, Yes. We trust YOU — all mighty. One Nation Under Louis and In Louis we Trust. Thanks.