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A-Day

We’ve spoken amongst ourselves - and with other self-affirming atheists - and we’ve come a consensus.

We need our own holiday.

Not a Secular Day of Service, nor a Day of Reason, nor Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday. A holiday dedicated to those who self-identify, positively-affirm, no dilly-dallying, proudly-state that they are capital-A Atheist. A day dedicated to letting the rest of society know just how numerous we are.

What would such a day look like?

Think Day of Silence - but with more talking. Some other suggestions to celebrate:

  • Skip church.
  • “Come Out” to a friend or family member.
  • Wear that hilarious t-shirt you bought at AAI last year.
  • Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
  • Get together with other atheist friends and make a commotion at a local bar.

Atheists Etcetera (the backbone group of the Positively Non Religious blog) plan to celebrate our atheist-ness on August 1st (Sunday) of this year - one month from today - probably by Skyping together our Midwest and new Westcoast members.

Ultimately the idea is just to have a little fun, make a little noise, and remind the world that - in the words of Bill Maher-  ”we’re not the crazy ones”

Here’s a picture of Noelle and Eric (with a bottle of “Herding Cats” merlot). As we speak, they’re moving from Indiana to Portland, Oregon.  In addition to being all-around awesome people, they’ve been very active and influential members of our meetup group, so they’ll definitely be missed. When they get settled in Portland, they’ll be starting an atheist meetup group out there.  I wish them the best, and I’m looking forward to hearing about their new lives on the west coast. Click for high-res photo

Here’s a picture of Noelle and Eric (with a bottle of “Herding Cats” merlot).

As we speak, they’re moving from Indiana to Portland, Oregon.  In addition to being all-around awesome people, they’ve been very active and influential members of our meetup group, so they’ll definitely be missed.

When they get settled in Portland, they’ll be starting an atheist meetup group out there.  I wish them the best, and I’m looking forward to hearing about their new lives on the west coast.