Christmas is only 8 months 16 days away

Really that means nothing, I just don't want to have one of the same basic Easter post titles that everyone else has. 

This week is Holy Week, and today is Holy Thursday. While I'm not Catholic I do understand many in America are and most everyone in my hometown is (or so it seems). Now I don't hate Catholics, I just don't get it. However, I know many do (or pretend to) and that's all fine by me. Just be real about it. 

But for those of us that aren't Catholic, do you leave your fellow people alone while they practice their Catholic faith? 

While on my way to lunch, a co-worker and I passed a guy who was on his knees praying (what religion he was practicing, I don't know, doesn't pertain specifically to the point of the story) and my co-worker who was driving yelled out the window "Get off your knees" then proceeded to speak down about him because he was "begging to a God who is non-existent because that's all praying is, is just begging".  While I shouldn't be surprised at such actions from an atheist who also proclaims to be a communist, it still bothered me more than normal. 

If you don't celebrate a standard holiday that everyone in America celebrates, I don't care, I don't agree with it, but I don't care if you don't celebrate it with me. Just don't flaunt it that you're superior to me because you don't answer to a "higher power" (aka God), and really by all means don't demean someone because they have a faith and trust in God. 

If you do claim to be an atheist, you therefore have no belief in God because atheism is the belief in there not being a God. Therefore, why don't you as an atheist volunteer to work Easter Sunday to serve Easter "after church" brunch to me and my family. Why don't you volunteer to work Christmas day at Denny's in the event we burn the Turkey. Truth be told, because most self-proclaimed "atheists" actually do celebrate Easter and Christmas with their family. They do the Easter egg hunts and the Christmas trees (they just conveniently leave out that whole Jesus thing, but how much does that really play into the whole holiday?). And they have the audacity to call church-going, Bible believing Christians hypocrites because we'll occasionally sin. Ohhhh and another thing, if you truly believe there is no God, then I want all of you to quit using the phrase God d@mnit, immediately!!!! First it just shows a total lack of class and respect on your part, but secondly the very nature of the statement is there is a God who is able to do such a thing, but by your atheism beliefs you claim there isn't a God at all. 

After seeing the reactions to some of the employees at the company I work for, its easy to see why it's going the direction it is. They've gotten away from the basic roots of the country, based rich in Judeao-Christian principles and welcome and embrace anyone with a different background to be able to flaunt their "diversity" to the community. 

While I'm all for diversity (I jokingly say my church is 49.5% white, 49.5% black, and then there's Josh, tell me that's not some diversity to a group of Bible believing people all to gather every weekend), there is one thing that ranks a step above diversity when it's job related.......... QUALIFICATION FOR THE JOB. I don't care if the whole company is nothing but green haired, yellow eyed, purple people, so long as they're the highest qualified people for the job that applied. I would feel more confidant about all companies if I knew they hired based on qualifications over having a very minute section of the population represented.