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HumanLight Day: Atheist Holiday

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"How do we say 'happy holidays' with sincerity if we don't even have one?" asked Ormond Beach retiree and avowed atheist Mimi Cerniglia.

The answer invented by a band of atheists and humanists is HumanLight Day on Dec. 23, planted smack in the middle of the traditional holiday rush.

Central Florida, thanks to Cerniglia, is one of the few sites for the celebration, which has no rules except to leave religion out of it.

Nonbelievers greet season with holiday of own

Richard Evans Lee
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this rocks! i'm a minor, and my parents hate it that i don't believe in the crap they do. my mom makes fun of it saying that i wouldn't have a holiday, because i don't even have a religion, and that really hurt. now i do! *happy!*

Posted by: rach | November 9, 2003 12:15 PM

You can always make the birthday of someone you admire your own holiday. I suspect The Brights Movement will be coming up with some day for sane folks to celebrate clarity over blind faith.

Posted by: Richard | November 9, 2003 12:29 PM

Greetings, I am a skeptic about religous institutions that are organized and claim they "know" what they are talking about...but I am also a skeptic about the opinion there is absolutely no intelligence behind creation as well...since that too, cannot be proven. But I do so love irreverence and hardily support freethinkers for just that...free thinking! Open minds think alike, whatever we may call ourselves! Frolic in your freedom friends! -Dan G

Posted by: Dan G | January 31, 2005 8:02 PM

My parents are both catholic and both their parents are very religious. I told my parents I am Atheist and they said they were proud of me to have chosen my own path. But my grandmother on my mother's side said if i didn't want to be catholic I couldn't be in the family anymore. My grandmother on my dad's side said that it was fine I didn't believe in what she did but she also said that atheists don't have any holiday. I am so happy there is now a holidoy for me to celebrate even if it is not with my family.

Posted by: orio | March 22, 2005 11:29 PM

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My thanks,
Richard

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