Atheist Holidays (Humorous)

[Fromper]

So someone mentioned that today is Half Off Chocolate Bunny Day, and that got me thinking of other, similar "secular" holidays. Here's a quick "Atheist Holiday" guide.

Darwin Day - February 12
Pi Day - March 14
Half Off Chocolate Bunny Day - the day after Easter Sunday
All Candies Eve - October 31
Half Off All Candies Day (the most delicious holiday of the year) - November 1
Day Off Work For Living in a Mostly Christian Nation - December 25

I'm sure I missed a few. Anyone else want to jump in?

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Can we claim Talk Like a Pirate Day too?

 

[CynthiaCypher]

You forgot April 1st.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

So someone mentioned that today is Half Off Chocolate Bunny Day, and that got me thinking of other, similar "secular" holidays. Here's a quick "Atheist Holiday" guide.

Darwin Day - February 12
Pi Day - March 14
Half Off Chocolate Bunny Day - the day after Easter Sunday
All Candies Eve - October 31
Half Off All Candies Day (the most delicious holiday of the year) - November 1
Day Off Work For Living in a Mostly Christian Nation - December 25

I'm sure I missed a few. Anyone else want to jump in?

Oh man, screw the chocolate bunnies, I'm always jump first in line for Peeps!

Atheist holidays can be celebrated by theists and theist holidays can be celebrated by atheists, so why do we call them that anymore? Why not put them into categories like; "Spiritual Holidays" (Christmas, Easter) and "Historical Holidays" (Lincoln Day, Uh... can't think right now) and "Traditional Random" (New Years, Valentines) and "Number Days" (4/20, Pi Day)

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Oh man, screw the chocolate bunnies, I'm always jump first in line for Peeps!

Atheist holidays can be celebrated by theists and theist holidays can be celebrated by atheists, so why do we call them that anymore? Why not put them into categories like; "Spiritual Holidays" (Christmas, Easter) and "Historical Holidays" (Lincoln Day, Uh... can't think right now) and "Traditional Random" (New Years, Valentines) and "Number Days" (4/20, Pi Day)

Valentines is a religious holiday.

 

[Amechania]

420 is a religious holiday.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Valentines is a religious holiday.

...because we celebrate the death of a martyr by giving each other candy?

 

[Uberpod]

Can we claim Talk Like a Pirate Day too?

The gays took that one already.

 

[Vinayaka]

Festivus!!!

 

[Amechania]

I donate to the Human Fund every Festivus.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

The gays took that one already.

I didn't know pirates were so thathy.

 

[Quagmire]

Whatevermas.

It isn't specifically atheist, but it isn't specifically not either.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

...because we celebrate the death of a martyr by giving each other candy?

There is just one St. Valentines? Only the obscure martyr? Not the priest who preached the value of erotic love and how the act of sexual union is a divine sacrament?

Nobody knows which Valentinius the feast day celebrates. It was celebrated long before the list of martyrs which includes several martyrs named Valentinius was compiled.

It makes more sense that the priest who actually preached the divinity of eroticism is the actual saint celebrated by the day.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

There is just one St. Valentines? Only the obscure martyr? Not the priest who preached the value of erotic love and how the act of sexual union is a divine sacrament?

Nobody knows which Valentinius the feast day celebrates. It was celebrated long before the list of martyrs which includes several martyrs named Valentinius was compiled.

It makes more sense that the priest who actually preached the divinity of eroticism is the actual saint celebrated by the day.

I think we can still claim it. How many Christians do you know that would allow themselves to celebrate a sacred sex holiday?

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I think we can still claim it. How many Christians do you know that would allow themselves to celebrate a sacred sex holiday?

Well, some of them did and some still do to this day celebrate it as a sacred sex holiday. And if more of them did, perhaps they wouldn't be so gloomy.

 

[Revoltingest]

Towel Day (May 25) is a celebration of Douglas (HHGTG) Adams, the wickedly mirthful atheistic author.

 

[Penumbra]

The solstices and equinoxes seem like pretty reasonable things to call secular holidays if one were so inclined, since they are astronomical events of symbolic value. Have a giant fancy masquerade on the longest night to celebrate the return of the sun, or something.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

The solstices and equinoxes seem like pretty reasonable things to call secular holidays if one were so inclined, since they are astronomical events of symbolic value. Have a giant fancy masquerade on the longest night to celebrate the return of the sun, or something.

Those holidays belong to the Neo-Pagans and Wiccans, I am not sure if they would appreciate them being appropriated by secularists who would strip them of them of their sacred meaning.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Those holidays belong to the Neo-Pagans and Wiccans, I am not sure if they would appreciate them being appropriated by secularists who would strip them of them of their sacred meaning.

I'm not sure they'd mind given they share the same general time with Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus...

Gods forbid a non-affiliated celebrant appears to claim their slice of the pie.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I'm not sure they'd mind given they share the same general time with Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus...

Gods forbid a non-affiliated celebrant appears to claim their slice of the pie.

Well the secularist don't get to celebrate the Autumn Equinox by dancing naked around a bonfire. They have to keep their clothes on at all times.