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Why do Google ignores Christian holidays?

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Christmas is simply a rebranded pagan holiday.
And Easter too. Which does make me wonder if this might be an issue with "counterfeit" holidays, in that the ones they're honoring have always been their proper holiday, but Christmas/Easter were rebranded to lure in the native people of those regions who weren't Christian.

Granted, we have what are de facto secular representations, but maybe it's still too loaded or too delicate a subject, so better to do nothing than something from a PR/personal belief stance.
 

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And Easter too. Which does make me wonder if this might be an issue with "counterfeit" holidays, in that the ones they're honoring have always been their proper holiday, but Christmas/Easter were rebranded to lure in the native people of those regions who weren't Christian.

Honestly religion and authenticity don't belong together as ideas. I don't even mean that in a cynical way, people are constantly trying to anchor stuff in the past as if that would make it somehow definitive, but the past is constantly being mythologized in all sorts of ways by all sorts of belief systems to construct authority. All religion was constructed at some point, and it doesn't make a whole lot of difference if it's apocryphal or syncretic or whatever or not, looking to the past to confer can be construed as a sort of shirking of responsibility.
 
On this day Jesus rose from the dead, but unfortunately this thread and its OP won't be doing the same.
 
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