I think a lot about how by all rights society should be using a calendar designed a whole lot more recently than the Gregorian calendar but we're locked into it because it would decouple Christian holy days as a centerpiece of the weekhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1231721667904172034 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Enh at this point we're just locked in period, changing the calendar would require massive institutional revisions of everything no one wants to pay for
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Also it's not just Christianity, it's all three big Abrahamic faiths that use a seven day week to mark their holy day (Saturday for Jews, Friday for Muslims)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah but the Hebrew calendar is always going to exist one way or the other
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It's a lot harder to ask to get Shabbos off if Shabbos falls on a random day of the secular week every time
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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah but making the entire rest of humanity be systemically beholden to those accomodations isn't what I'd call a morally neutral solution either Obviously we're stuck with it but unfortunately it also pretty blatantly reinforces the supremacy of the religion it was designed for
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Well yeah I'm just saying it wasn't originally invented for Christianity (the Christians adopted the ancient Near Eastern week used by the Jews) and it's not just Christians, it's the whole Abrahamic world Muslims would be pretty mad if you officially abolished Fridays
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The real thing here is that the whole concept of a weekly day of rest is a Jewish thing (or rather a Mesopotamian thing that came to us through the Jews) So the major non-Abrahamic faiths don't have a competing weekly cycle to challenge the 7-day week with
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And even though Buddhism, say, does not have the custom of a weekly day of worship, in the secular world the concept of a weekend is very popular and people generally wouldn't like you trying to take it away
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