Posted on 10/09/2024 11:19:52 PM PDT by PghBaldy
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Earlier today, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a bill that would create a new official holiday here in the Keystone State.
Senate Bill 402, introduced by State Sen. Greg Rothman and co-sponsored by Sen. Nikil Saval, would make Diwali an official state holiday.
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Keep Deevali in India, where it belongs .
Not an official state holiday.
President Trump Lights a Diya in Observance of Diwali
In this photograph, taken by Joyce N. Boghosian on November 13, 2018, President Donald Trump participates in a ceremonial diya lighting in the Roosevelt Room during a Diwali celebration at the White House. The White House has observed Diwali since the George W. Bush presidency, though ceremonies were mostly held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. In 2009, President Barack Obama became the first president first to light a diya at the White House, during a ceremony in the East Room. Since then, diya lighting ceremonies have been held in various locations in the White House, including the Oval Office and the Roosevelt Room.
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Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian
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Whenever they do things like this in my states, the only ones that get it off are schools, government employees, and banks.
Agree
Where do Judaism and Christianity belong? I didn’t know they were started in America :)
It’s not a violent relgion like islam.
State holidays aren’t federal holidays.
If that many indians live there now, then the state will do what it thinks is best.
“Wherever we’re from and whatever our background, all of us deserve to have our cultures recognized and honored.”
Nothing for the huge Slavic population, I see...
When is cannibal day?
Yes, that is the best way. Two jobs ago, the Indians in our organizations offered to celebrate Diwali with all of us by bringing in food and wearing traditional clothes. They all looked fantastic and the food was amazing. It became a yearly celebration that everyone enjoyed, so yes, you do not need an official holiday. You may need bigger pants, though, if you do what my buddy Matt and I did every year in loading up Dagwood Bumstead plates of all that delicious Indian food.
Just another day paid day off for them.
Instead of going into the office to not work, they stay home and don’t work.
Im sure its a nice holiday but none of these people should have ever been allowed to come to America in the first place.
Eventually, ALL 365 days of the year will be a government holiday where those worthless employees get paid time off (actually paid by the private sector taxpayers who HAVE to work).
They will have to adds days to keep up with the new “holidays”.
And then you have those celebration weeks and months that overlap with the holidays.
Satan rules the earth. All hail Satan. /spit
Sorry, but “keep x festival in y country, where it belongs” is daft.
By that reckoning, none of the festivals that didn’t originate in the USA should be kept.
Yup, that’s a better approach
Where do Judaism and Christianity belong?
In the believers’ hearts and actions. In their homes and places of worship.
I don’t see Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as official holidays, and the Jews have been part of the USA since before it was the USA.
This is ridiculous.
Election Day should be a national holiday. That way there's no excuse for not showing up at the polls on that single day and voting in person. The only mail ins allowed are for military and diplomatic staff serving overseas.
It will be a tradition to throw all of your trash in the nearest body of water.
The Slavs mostly entered known history when they were Christianized. So “Slavic festivals” generally tend to be Christian festivals.
Interestingly the Slavic gods like Perun etc. resemble the early Vedic Hindu deities — the Slavic religion, like the Nordic etc. were branches of the Indo-European religion which started out with a Sky father (Dyaus Pitr / Zeus Pitar / Jupiter), a god of thunder and lightning (Perun / indra / thor), of fire (Agni, / Ogien ) and and earth mother. The two families of gods: Asuras/ahuras/aesir and Devas/Daevas/Vanir are common to the IE religion.
Most of the IE religions with the exception of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Greek, were primitive bronze age transactional religions and died out quickly when faced with Christianity’s personal God.
The Greeks by the time of Christ had stopped believing in their capricious gods and were more philosophical.
Zoroastrianism took the Iranic branch of Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European religion and brought in a lot of depth - changing it to a Dualistic religion and focusing on Ahura Mazda (the God of light) vs Aingra mainyu (the god of the lie).
Hinduism on the other hand jettisioned most of the Indo-European religion and absorbed much of the Dravidian religious thought: Indra was set aside for Shiva, Ram, Krishna. And that religion absorbed various religions and religious ideas. Hinduism was irrevocably changed by the impact of Buddhism (which truly speaking is a branch of Hinduism)
Why Diwali and not Good Friday, observed by many more?
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