Saturday 11th April 2009 Easter Holidays

Now to be politically incorrect. Yes, I am good at it, so I am told.
Here in the land down under we have a 4 day break ever Easter. And on top of that we always have a day off for Christmas Day. If Christmas Day falls on a weekend then we have either the Friday before, or the Monday after off as well.
Two questions. Do we live in a Christian nation and should we have a holiday at Easter and Christmas. The answer to both questions is no.
We may try to fool ourselves that we are a Christian nation, and indeed our Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd, is a regular church attendee. Whether he is a genuine Christian is open to question. But that don't maketh us a Christian nation. Israel is a Jewish nation because God said so. He gave the land to Abram, later known as Abraham. Not so Australia. God didn't give us Australia, we took it from the Aborigines around 250 years ago. In fact, Australia is an Aboriginal nation, complete with its own "Dreaming" religion. It was invaded, by stealth, not by force.
So having established that Australia is not a Christian nation, that leaves the question, should we have a Christian holiday in a nation that is not Christian? I say no. If we are going to have Christian holiday then we should also have Muslim holiday's and Hindu holiday and a Buddhist holidays and so on. In reality we are discriminating against the other religions when we will have Christian holidays to the exclusion of others.
So I will end this post as I began. Should we have religious holidays? You be the judge.