Personally, I find it offensive that Easter and Christmas are statesponsored national holidays.
When is this religious idolatry going to end? Surely athiestic scientists must intervene sometime, lest the memesets continue propagating to the young and impressionable. It's all about identification (with the heroes).
Is it really rational and sane to aspire to be tortured in the name of healing?
The entertainment industry can always create new idols. But how to we get the old ones off the calendar?
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