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And yet another, more minimal variant was published seven years before that in, of all places, an advertisement for Sunday church services in the Wellsboro, Pennsylvania Gazette, March 28, 1990:
April 1st - National Atheist's Holiday
"The Fool hath said in his heart
there is no God." Psalm 14:1
Come celebrate this gala event
with us on Sunday
Lambs Creek Bible Church
Mansfield, PA
Lastly, the more complex form of the joke we're familiar with today was presaged by this one-liner from famous Borscht Belt comedian Henny Youngman (1906-1998):
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up — they have no holidays. ​
 
Perhaps at the beginning of the holiday year (however it falls within the organization/company) all those employed are required to submit their requests for holidays for religious reasons. Then others are able to fill in their holidays as time is available. If the person does not submit the requests at the beginning of the holiday year, then they shouldn't be expected to override someone else's booked days.

We already have legally established statutory holidays. And some companies/organizations have added bargained paid holidays in their contracts. Unfortunately this is the way it is, and I don't think now we can add all regligious holidays as statutory holidays now . . . companies/organizations would go bankrupt in some instances.

I think if companies can work it out to allow employees to take religious holidays as holiday days that is great, but the company must also think of the fairness to other employees.
 
Consider the number of days in the year, and the number of days off people in the western world have come to expect as the norm.
(In this model we have a secular week - industry, business, shopping, schools run seven days a week. )
Each employee gets two days a week off. As a Christian, I will pick Sunday as one - for me it would be a religious holiday. One other - I would check with my family and try to arrange for all of us to take the same day off - would Saturday or Monday work best to give us two days together - or would we all prefer a mid-week break, say Wednesday for shopping, relaxing, me-time? A Jew might chose Saturday, plus another day. A Muslim - ??? An atheist might find Tuesday and Wednesday good days for skiing or bicycling.
In addition we usually expect another day off every month or so. Let's see. I would choose Christmas and Good Friday as holy days. And maybe a few extra days around Christmas. And Easter Monday. And the day after Thanksgiving.
Then of course there would be my annual vacation time, and sick days, and a few float days.
It would probably be a bit confusing at first, until the kinks were worked out. But it seems to me that we are already moving in that direction. For many in the work force, weekend doesn't mean two days to spend with family doing whatever you choose. For many it is just another work day.
 
crazyheart said:
Is this funny?
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one person's laughter is another's horrible sin :3
look at the collection of jokes that is the Bibble/the Koran/the Torah/the Declaration of Independence/insert tale of the tribe here -- there are still people on earth who take it deadly-seriously...human beings, what maroons :3
 
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