Happy National Day of Reason

[robtex]

Today, May 4th is the National Day of reason celebrated by humanists, non-theists and deists. Here is clipped paragraph from the website nationaldayorreason.org:

"Many who value the separation of religion and government have sought an appropriate response to the federally-supported National Day of Prayer, an annual abuse of the constitution. Nontheistic Americans (including freethinkers, humanists, atheists, agnostics, and deists), along with many traditionally religious allies, view such government-sanctioned sectarianism as unduly exclusionary."

http://www.nationaldayofreason.org/

footnotes:

1) http://www.americanhumanist.org/index.html

2) http://www.wash.org/

 

[gnomon]

WOO-HOO!.....Woo-Hoo!....woo - hoo....

There seems to be an echo in here.

 

[jonny]

They should let Mormons participate since we're barred from participating in the National Day of Prayer.

 

[Sunstone]

It makes me sad people would call for a national day of reason merely as a reaction against a national day of prayer. Why not support reason for its own sake and for the sake of the benefits reasoning well and truly give us? Why are we always asked to support something to spite someone else?

 

[ChrisP]

Well I'll party with you, if you party with me on "National Day of Slayer".

That's a reasonable suggestion right?

But I agree with Mr Stone, when regarding reactionary type reactions. Why not make the whole MONTH a month of reason, thereby overshadowing a puny singular day completely!

 

[budamus]

why wont they let the Mormons take part.
and Church and state should never be in the same room

 

[eudaimonia]

It makes me sad people would call for a national day of reason merely as a reaction against a national day of prayer. Why not support reason for its own sake and for the sake of the benefits reasoning well and truly give us? Why are we always asked to support something to spite someone else?

I agree that a national day of reason should be welcomed for its own sake, not merely in reaction to something else. However, that doesn't mean there isn't value in asserting that nontheists are citizens too, and shouldn't be treated like they don't exist. It is possible to support a national day of reason as both an end and a means. There is no contradiction in this.


eudaimonia,

M.