Quite the contrary, I'm not upset in the least.
There are many loose ends, questions you make of me that I had not yet addressed, which is the reason for my replying now.

When I stated "ignorantly" I was referring to not understanding how our democracy works. Being ignorant is a state of being. Unaware. If we were socialist, then yes, the minority would have quite a bit of power I guess.

Our government doesn't mandate any body be closed on our holidays... it does close government for certain ascribed ones, but those employees are paid well for not working, and double time and a half if they do work them. Stores are welcomed to open, and some do..but most find that since the minority of people who go shopping on the religious holidays can't provide them with enough income to make it worth their while (which is how society follows the majority no matter what the majority is) they usually don't open.

We have many more statutory holidays than just Christmas and Easter btw. This is what I was referring to in that your statement </font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
what i was suggesting, however, is that the statutary holidays be more neutral both with respect to between religions and whether it is religious at all.

because currently the statutary holidays (in the US, Canada, the UK, Australasia) seem to be based around christian religions

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> in which you make it sound like the only statutory holidays are the two religious ones.

Are all the President's birthday holidays religious in your mind? And Martin Luther King's day, is that religious to you?

Making statements of opinion as though they are pure fact will be called in question often I would think. What? Shall we allow the erroneous to continue uncountered? If someone speaks truth from what they know, and especially things that are their own personal experience, there is no argument. As you said, if someone says they are hot even though it's 30 degrees, so what? They are hot. But if they were to make the statement, People are hot in here... what should be said? Do we leave them alone in their ignorance or try to find out why they would make such a statement. If I am in the room and someone says that...am I to then think, Oh, I'm hot...because someone said so? It doesn't sound very logical imo.

I don't care what the screen name, when someone continues to post verbosely without continuity of thought and reason, and expecting generalized statements to stand as truth for all, while at the same time demanding no one else do likewise and also at the same time accusing others of doing what they themselves are doing... IDK I think something or someone needs to say, Wait a minute.

You have accused me of highjacking your thread. You are the one who went off on a tangent about what you think the USA does, condeming it. I merely tried to give you a statistical foundation to show you were off a bit on your facts.

You have accused me of launching into an attack on Islam. I think my posts state very clearly that we allow them to worship here in the USA even though they have attacked us. I think my posts also show no such attack on my part.

Now I also have two items to note for all here. The use of the ignore is a good thing. And anyone who has a problem with what someone posts, should use it. However, you cannot tell others to quit reading what you post, If someone doesn't want others to read what they think, they shouldn't be posting it...Likewise with PMs.. to tell anyone to quit PMing ... that's what the ignore is for.

The second item is it's against guidelines to talk about PMs in a post. The fact that you accused me of lashing out at you in a PM and then spread this mistatement in a public post is close to slander, imo. I do NOT take it lightly.

However I'm still not upset. I am eager to see a change in this relationship
soon.