Originally posted by WPRESTO About holidays being the "correct" day: Washington's? Lincoln's? Christmas? Easter? Passover? Columbus'? Mlk? At least Memorial Day is still Nov 11.
No problem for me - I just ignore all that stuff. "See that you do not keep days and months and seasons and years." But this one's not just "incorrect", it's outright fraud on more than one level. Take, for example, the phrase, "our nation's birthday": a "nation" is a collection of humans bound by common historical culture, language, religion, race, and ethnicity. Japan is a "nation", the U.S. is not. I don't know why they feel that, for propaganda purposes, they need to shoehorn our views into traditional ways of thinking that relate to other kinds of governments. Why not celebrate what we've got under the Constitution instead? Seems like a much better option, to me. Or is there some need for emotional manipulation that I don't understand?