Religious Diversity
After a long time I write again, also because some people mentioned that I haven't been writing for a long time.
When I was still in Prague, one day I left the building of the Philosophical Faculty -- and outside there stood a huge Chanukiyah (the candle holder for the 8 resp. 9 Chanukah candles). It must have been between December 16 and December 23, 2006, because then was Chanukah 5767 (Chanukah 5768 will be December 5 to December 8, 2007, if I got everything right).
I have never ever before seen publicly installed a sign for religious holidays other than Christian ones. Doing this means to acknowledge that there is more than one religion practiced in (our) society. And that means to acknowledge reality instead of saying things like, "cathedrals have to be higher than mosques." ("Bei aller Toleranz -- Kathedralen müssen größer sein als Moscheen" -- sound bite Edmund Stoiber, former minister-president of Bavaria, 09/21/2007 or sooner, see here and elsewhere; though that's not the only bullshit -- not in Frankfurt's sense -- he has been saying).
I liked this very much, because it shows that there are people with other religions than the majority and that they are part of (our) society, too. And I think that's how a society which views itself as tolerant, liberal and secular, should deal with religions: Either each is treated with ignorance, which means no trees, stars, angels, Santas and other stuff in the public sphere and publicly-paid-for X-mas and other holidays. Or each is treated with the same attentiveness, which means that we will have all the Christian gewgaw on X-mas and carnival etc., but Jewish candelabras for Chanukah and decorated streets during Ramadan and so on, too. I would prefer the latter because it means that we realize that our fellow citizens are celebrating. It shows that we are interested in them and in what's important for them. That would be much better for society as a whole than showing everybody that we want a homogeneous society even though we are always praising diversity and personal choice. That is like saying: "Don't bother us with your being different."
One problem is that this leaves us atheists out because we don't have any holidays we could celebrate. The same goes for the Pastafarians (as far as I know) because until now they don't have any holidays, either.
[2009/11/26 I got a commentary from someone to this post. But he only send a link to his blog where you can see some semi-nudes. Which is simply boring and bland. So I didn't published it.]
When I was still in Prague, one day I left the building of the Philosophical Faculty -- and outside there stood a huge Chanukiyah (the candle holder for the 8 resp. 9 Chanukah candles). It must have been between December 16 and December 23, 2006, because then was Chanukah 5767 (Chanukah 5768 will be December 5 to December 8, 2007, if I got everything right).
I have never ever before seen publicly installed a sign for religious holidays other than Christian ones. Doing this means to acknowledge that there is more than one religion practiced in (our) society. And that means to acknowledge reality instead of saying things like, "cathedrals have to be higher than mosques." ("Bei aller Toleranz -- Kathedralen müssen größer sein als Moscheen" -- sound bite Edmund Stoiber, former minister-president of Bavaria, 09/21/2007 or sooner, see here and elsewhere; though that's not the only bullshit -- not in Frankfurt's sense -- he has been saying).
I liked this very much, because it shows that there are people with other religions than the majority and that they are part of (our) society, too. And I think that's how a society which views itself as tolerant, liberal and secular, should deal with religions: Either each is treated with ignorance, which means no trees, stars, angels, Santas and other stuff in the public sphere and publicly-paid-for X-mas and other holidays. Or each is treated with the same attentiveness, which means that we will have all the Christian gewgaw on X-mas and carnival etc., but Jewish candelabras for Chanukah and decorated streets during Ramadan and so on, too. I would prefer the latter because it means that we realize that our fellow citizens are celebrating. It shows that we are interested in them and in what's important for them. That would be much better for society as a whole than showing everybody that we want a homogeneous society even though we are always praising diversity and personal choice. That is like saying: "Don't bother us with your being different."
One problem is that this leaves us atheists out because we don't have any holidays we could celebrate. The same goes for the Pastafarians (as far as I know) because until now they don't have any holidays, either.
[2009/11/26 I got a commentary from someone to this post. But he only send a link to his blog where you can see some semi-nudes. Which is simply boring and bland. So I didn't published it.]
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