http://steiermark.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] steiermark.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] dramadramaduck2010-12-05 10:28 am

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Before we get too much into the Christmas spirit, I have to point out that it is, in fact, already Hanukkah. Most of us don't celebrate it - in fact, there many not actually be any Jews on this community, I haven't encountered one - but as a country I have an obligation to provide for all of my people.




This is traditionally the part where I ask a question. What religions are there on your world, and what do you think of the ones you don't celebrate?

[identity profile] hands4healing.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Amestris doesn't really have a religion. There are the Ishbalans, and for a while, the Letoans. I think the Letoans died out, though. The Ishbalans were nearly wiped out in a racial genocide when I was a little girl.

[identity profile] hands4healing.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry. War isn't a good thing, for anyone involved.

[identity profile] hands4healing.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah...my country's been involved with war since it's beginning.

[identity profile] hands4healing.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose not, but...the war here...it has a purpose. Not just to gain more land or because the country is threatened. It's...worse than that.

[identity profile] east-darkhorse.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Frederick supports religious toleration, but you already know that. He's that good.

[identity profile] east-darkhorse.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
We attack a lot of people. You know how empires work. Who's your boss now, Spects?

[identity profile] east-darkhorse.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you finally have a boss with a pair of...? What a change.

[identity profile] phoenix-temple.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I've met the Creator of Earth and Cephiro... and I don't think any religions worship him.

[identity profile] phoenix-temple.livejournal.com 2010-12-05 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he looks very much like a tea cake and has an awkward personality for god, so...
material_guy: (Me?)

[personal profile] material_guy 2010-12-06 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ou. Someone told me about Hanukkah when I asked about "the holiday season" or whatever, but he didn't make a lot of sense. Something about lights and a different calendar and stuff, right? Oi. How's that work when different people in the same country got a different calendar? Don't that get confusing? You say December first, but it's Kimbadolte 15th or whatever for them and they'd have to figure it out? Or's it a different name for the same month, so December 15th'd just be Whatever 15th, too?
material_guy: (How to put this...)

[personal profile] material_guy 2010-12-06 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
So do you gotta print and announce stuff with two dates on 'em?

"Sale on December 5th/Kislev 28th"?

[identity profile] gluttonforpasta.livejournal.com 2010-12-06 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hannukah seems like it must be nice, though not many people here celebrate it.

[identity profile] bittervictor.livejournal.com 2010-12-06 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard about that, but no one in the Resistance is Jewish. Some of us were raised Muslim, though.

Mostly we just roll everything up into one big party in winter.