I was on the forums today and saw two posts specifically about holiday festivals in the Tower. There were two posts that generated quite a bit of controversy, one that called for a Christmas Festival and one that called for a Ramadan Festival.
After reading these posts I couldn't believe how hypocritical and backwards some people on the forums are. Most accept a Christmas festival but are absolutely offended by the mere thought of a Ramadan Festival.
Have we really fallen so far? Posting inappropriate phrases to bash the Islamic faith and making jokes about terrorism. It really is a shame.
Don't give me the cop out excuses of that Christmas is more commercialized and makes up the majority, those explanations are complete crap, not everyone wants to celebrate a holiday with Christian roots.
I for one don't even think that Destiny has any of the faiths we have presently. They praise the Traveler as their Savior and the Speaker is sort of the Pope to the people in a sense. I don't Christmas exists. I do, however, think that having a seasonal festival of some sort would be great
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[i]What justifiable reason can you give me for such a huge difference in opinion?[/i]
PS- for those that agree what do you think would be a good idea for a festival during the holiday season?
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I think a festival would be nice, one in which we celebrate the season. They would have to tie it in with the game and as far as how they'll do it, I don't know.
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Christmas has nothing to do with religion whereas Ramadan is firmly planted in one. People of all beliefs celebrate Christmas. Anyone who thinks that it has anything to do with Jesus' birthday has been brainwashed because it was moved to coincide with popular [b]pagan[/b] winter solstice festivities. Therefore t really has nothing to do with that at all.
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Winter festival. Plain and simple. God forbid with offend anyone else in 2015.
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I want a winter festival. Not only do other religions have to feel ashamed and attacked by the Christian players, but we can't celebrate while they can.
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People are hypocrites. That's the root of most drama, especially when it comes to religions and opinions that are different then there own. A winter holiday festival would be nice. But I'm sure even that isn't generic enough
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I'm non religious, nothing offends me, but America was founded on religious freedom. There is no official religion.
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Are you retarded? Christmas exists whether you think it does or doesn't.
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If it makes you feel any better, I don't think either one should happen It if one happens, then the other one should happen too
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More hammers ! Sorry . . . Just what I want for Xmas . . . Well this is awkward. I'll get my coat.
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How about festival of winter so I don't have hear about dumbass religions
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To be honest. It's a video game. We souls create our own holidays and what not within Destiny
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Put up one metal pole - call I "festivus" Problem solved
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Merry Christmas
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Celebrate a -blam!-ing winter festival. Why does it have to be tied to a real life holiday. Stop being so over-sensitive about stupid shit people.
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Why can't we just have a winter event?
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[i]if[/i] they have anything, they will avoid saying any holiday specific details because the "winter (in the usa) holidays" are based more firmly in religion than holidays like Halloween despite its religious/ritualistic background
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Im a holiday and i find this offensive
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I'm about sick of all this "tolerance"
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Muted
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What did I just read?? I thought this was the Destiny forum but I'm not sure.
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Edited by Patient3591: 10/28/2015 6:02:04 PMI'm sure they'll do some sort of non-denominational "winter celebration" event that looks and acts pretty much like Christmas but they call something else. I mean, that's what they did with not-halloween, AKA the festival of souls.
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Let's just not celebrate anything, ever. [spoiler]people will still get offended at this[/spoiler]
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OP is a Feggetttt
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Guess they aren't getting year 2 gjallarhorn during this year's Ramadan festival ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Pathetic.
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People are scumbags in today's age. They would never say that to someone in person. They hide behind their keyboard and post hateful shit because they can without getting punched.