Wednesday, April 1, 2009

National Atheist Day

OK, so today is National Atheist Day, but as with all holidays in our politically correct world, this brings about problems in everyday interactions with other human beings. Examples: Is it OK to say "Happy Atheist Day"? or is that showing a preference for a deity free religion over those religions that require their constituents to follow the dictates of a deity? Even words like "Happy" and "Merry" if combined with a religious holiday like National Atheist Day could be misconstrued to be synonyms of "Gay" which while it is defined similarly to "Happy" could also be "homosexual" and we aren't trying to say that all Atheists are homosexuals. Not that being a homosexual is in any way antithetical to the Atheist religion. Some Atheist's might be offended at sharing the holiday with "April Fool's Day". From those with a Christian world view, this is easily explained. The Bible says in Psalm 53:1, "The fool says in his heart 'there is no God'" and since the definition of an Atheist is one who doesn't believe in the existence of a Theos or God, then the sharing of the holiday makes sense. So then, are Atheist Day pranks in order? Would people make up evidence to prove that God doesn't exist? That would be an awful prank. They could probably get lawyers at the ACLU to fall for it! Anyway, I have typed enough. Have a Happy/Merry/Gay Atheist/Fool's Day!

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