A Good Friday, or what?

In the U.S. there's a strong separation of Church and State. Supposedly, anyhow. Thus, all the public holidays have to be couched in secular terms: Christmas = Santa Claus, Easter = Easter Bunny, etc. (Actually, I don't think Easter is a paid holiday in the U.S.)

Here in Aussie-land, you get Good Friday and Easter Monday off, as paid vacations. (Easter Monday, because when a paid holiday falls on a weekend, you get the Friday or the Monday off as compensation.) I suppose someone that's of a different religion -- Jewish, Buddhis, Muslem, whatever -- could get all bent out of shape about that. But my impression is that they just shrug and take the day off.


There was a good closing line for a late-night sketch comedy/commentary show called ''The Punter's [something] Everything'':

''We're hypotcritical athiests: We don't believe in God, but we still won't show up for work on Monday. Cheers!''

Fair 'nuff! :)


--GG