Too many holidays

In Malta there are too many religious holidays. Most of them should be abolished as not befitting a modern, secular state such as Malta aspires to be.

Antiquated holidays celebrating a 2,000-year-old shipwreck, an "immaculate" conception denied by Pope Gregory the Great and by St Bernard of Clairvaux, and a long-dead carpenter from Palestine have no place in a secular state.

The observance of these mediaeval holidays shows that the Maltese people are still stuck in a mediaeval mindset.

I'd like to appeal to progressive Labour MPs to initiate legislation which would abolish at least a few of the many religious holidays in Malta as being detrimental to the Maltese economy, harmful to the Maltese work ethic and incompatible with a secular state where the state, and not the Church, decides which days should be public holidays.