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Could we call it Dog Day?
Q: What do you think of the American Humanist Association's new "Godless Holiday" campaign? The ads will say: "No God? . . . No Problem! Be good for goodness' sake. Humanism is the idea that you can be good without a belief in God.
Godless Holiday? Don't we already have those? Valentine's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day? July Fourth, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving? Even the traditional Christian Sabbath, aka Sunday, can seem pretty godless in the baseball and football seasons, to say nothing of the Little League and soccer seasons among the primary school crowd.
If the American Humanist Association feels a specific "Godless Holiday," would offer them a place in the pantheon of religious holidays, we should let them have it. Though Congress might balk at the enabling legislation, marketing people would go for it. Good luck and God bless you!
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
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November 23, 2009; 1:28 PM ET
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Posted by: Paganplace | November 30, 2009 3:45 PM
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We could have a 'Dog Day,' though, if you wanted. One, seasonally, the rising of Sirius, the 'Dog Star' was used to measure the turning of the agricultural year in certain latitudes. :)
Posted by: Paganplace | November 30, 2009 3:42 PM
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You know what's 'in your face,' Ma'am?
Secular humanists saying they weren't put on this Earth for you to blame your spending habits on every year.
Just like I am.
In. Yo'. Face.
Posted by: Paganplace | November 30, 2009 3:36 PM
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""Godless Holiday? Don't we already have those? Valentine's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day? July Fourth, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving? Even the traditional Christian Sabbath, aka Sunday, can seem pretty godless in the baseball and football seasons, to say nothing of the Little League and soccer seasons among the primary school crowd.""
You'd have to be pretty Christian-centric and egotistical to think that any given day which you find insufficiently-reverent to your own authority must therefore be celebrating some 'enemy.'
Never mind think it grounds to claim someone's 'shoving something down your throat' if they merely assert their own humanity in the face of the constant defamations you use once a year to blame 'someone else' for how *you* choose to behave around the Winter Solstice.
Ms. O'Brien.
Posted by: Paganplace | November 30, 2009 3:33 PM
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I do not think that is what they want. How did you get that impression?
Posted by: DanielintheLionsDen | November 28, 2009 3:22 PM
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But, hey. Dog Day. We could even make an afternoon of it, if you really wanna keep making things hard on queers. :)