Is Google Anti-Christian?
Is Google Anti-Christian?
Once again, Google has refused to mention Easter in its holiday logo tradition
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter Holiday! Mine was terrific! I didn’t go to a church, but I did get to enjoy a perfectly cooked Sirloin Steak, heaping pile of mash potatoes, and some of the best corn on the cob I’ve had in years. Plus, the weather here in Nevada was absolutely perfect!
I do wonder, though, did Google’s employees celebrate the holiday? I mean, Historically Google uses common sense in changing its logo to reflect important Holidays right?
Wrong.
Google is very anti-Christian when it comes to celebrating Federal and Global holidays. Now before you go jumping to conclusions, please hear me out.
Easter itself is indeed a Christian based holiday. It’s “supposed” to anyway. But not all people view it as such. Many Americans, and people beyond our borders, simply use it as a day to spend time with the family and enjoy some of the “non-Christian” traditions of the world known holiday.
How many of you, regardless of religion, or lack there of, hunted for Easter eggs as kids? Or if you have kids, did you buy them baskets full of goodies and take them out to search for the golden egg? I would dare say that a good majority of Americans have.
Why then, does Google refuse to put up a logo on this globally recognized holiday? The same thing happens for Christmas as well! Google just can’t seem to stand that we as America ENJOY these holidays. Or at least, they don;t seem to want us to know they acknowledge them.
Let’s have a look at some things Google things are more important than Christmas and Easter, shall we?
Going back in History, we see a plethora of Google holiday logos. One of the oldest is a logo that celebrated what many would consider a pagan event… the lawless gathering of anarchy known as Burning Man.
This from Wiki.
The name “Burning Man” came to Harvey when he was watching a video of the 1986 ritual. A member of the crowd watching the event shouted out “Wicker Man!”, suggesting that the burning of the wooden effigy was somehow related to the ancient Celtic ritual of the Wicker Man, signifying rebirth. Harvey was the son of a Freemason, and (for Harvey) the use of wood in building the man had symbolic significance and was a critical part of the ritual; also, according to him, he did not see the movie The Wicker Man until many years later, so it played no part in his inspiration. Accordingly, rather than allow the name “Wicker Man” to become the name of the ritual, he started using the name “Burning Man.”
Under the definition of “religion”, this in itself could be considered religion, could it not?
“a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices”
So if Google is claiming that it does not want to support religious events or holidays to stay neutral, I would argue that be hosting a Burning Man logo Google has already entered the realm of hypocrisy.
Google hasn’t always neglected Easter, however, because during the years of 2000 and 2001 they had Easter logos. Well at least one year they had one. The second year they moved it down to the bottom of the page.
Another example of Google catering to “religious” holidays is Halloween.
From Wiki.
Halloween originated under a different name (”Samhain”) as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with mainly Irish and Scots and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Many other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late twentieth century.
What is Paganism?
Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning “an old country dweller, rustic”) is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheism religions in particular.
What about Christmas? I mean, who in their right mind won’t acknowledge Christmas as a notable holiday? Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, it’s still CHRISTMAS!!!
But Google has not once, EVER mentioned Christmas or eluded to it in any of it’s logos. What do they display during Christmas? Try these on for size. (they go under the phrase “seasons greetings”)
So, in the end, I think it’s clear that Google has no problem including religion in its content. No, Google just doesn’t want CHRISTIAN religion included in its content.
Anyone think differently?
-Eric Odom
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