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Happy atheism day (I'll go for 9/12)

• Richard Evans Lee , • Skeptics & Atheists

An atheist's holiday? Do we need one? Not me. When the calendar slides around to another special day I give Charles a present and say to Hell with it.

But others have proposed a wholly secular day of celebration. Celebrating what? That the universe is meaningless and we'll all die? I have no argument with that but why should I fuss with celebrating the ineluctable? (HumanLight Day: Atheist Holiday and The Humanlight symbol, a sunburst surrounding the figure of a person with upraised arms).

If I need a day for myself I'll celebrate the birthday of H.L. Mencken the only begetter of this weblog. If he were looking down from spectral heights it'd only give him another belly laugh.

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Has this nation of morons and clowns produced a funnier denouncer of its follies? If you are British you have Thomas Henry Huxley. Surely most nations have produced someone who was happy to look at the unsmiling, indifferent universe and laugh at it.

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If we must have an atheist's holiday, I think we ought to steal December 25th.

Posted by: PZ Myers | November 20, 2003 6:59 PM

Hmm....PZ, steal it BACK you mean. Anyway, Richard, 9/12 is actually a better idea than celebrating 9/11 as we did this year (complete with Buddy-Jesus-Amongst-the-Terrified-Running-People). After the insanity comes the dawning of the light of reason,in true secular pagan tradition.

Posted by: Terri | November 20, 2003 11:34 PM

I think an International Atheist Day will do much for atheist unity..such a day will make us understand better who we are and could help us to establish some common goals...and some isolated atheists living in religious communities could understand that they are not alone..such a day would be a symbol and many will realize that atheists are a distinct minority...I think we also should have an International Science Day and an International Sex Day(this would be good for the adult industry..

Posted by: adrian | July 18, 2004 6:36 AM

I fear it would be impossible to get enough atheist, agnostic, skeptical organizations to agree on a day or even a name.

Posted by: Richard | July 19, 2004 3:30 PM

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