Atheists Holiday

Dutch6

Dutch6

"Fluffy world destroyer"
In Florida , an atheist became incensed over the preparation for Easter and Passover holidays and decided to contact his lawyer about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant celebrations afforded to
Christians and Jews with all their holidays while the atheists had no holiday to celebrate.

The case was brought before a wise judge who after listening to the long, passionate presentation of his lawyer, promptly banged his gavel and declared, "Case dismissed!"

The lawyer immediately stood and objected to the ruling and said,
"Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? Surely the Christians have Christmas, Easter and many other observances.
And the Jews--why in addition to Passover they have Yom Kippur and Hanukkah...and yet my client and all other atheists have no such holiday!"

The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said, Obviously your client is too confused to know about or to celebrate the atheists' holiday!"

The lawyer pompously said "We are aware of no such holiday The judge said "Well it comes every year on exactly the same date---April 1st!"

"The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" -
Psalm 14:1


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FireBrand

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Dutch6 said:
In Florida , an atheist became incensed over the preparation for Easter and Passover holidays and decided to contact his lawyer about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant celebrations afforded to
Christians and Jews with all their holidays while the atheists had no holiday to celebrate.

The case was brought before a wise judge who after listening to the long, passionate presentation of his lawyer, promptly banged his gavel and declared, "Case dismissed!"

The lawyer immediately stood and objected to the ruling and said,
"Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? Surely the Christians have Christmas, Easter and many other observances.
And the Jews--why in addition to Passover they have Yom Kippur and Hanukkah...and yet my client and all other atheists have no such holiday!"

The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said, Obviously your client is too confused to know about or to celebrate the atheists' holiday!"

The lawyer pompously said "We are aware of no such holiday The judge said "Well it comes every year on exactly the same date---April 1st!"

"The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" -
Psalm 14:1


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Toxick

Toxick

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Dutch6 said:
In Florida , an atheist became incensed over the preparation for Easter and Passover holidays and decided to contact his lawyer about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant celebrations afforded to
Christians and Jews with all their holidays while the atheists had no holiday to celebrate.
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I'd be interested to know what the atheist would want to celebrate exactly?


Horray! When I die I become worm-chow.
Huzzah! There's nothing out there!
Yay! ... Well, er... Yay!




Sides, there's plenty of secular holidays.

Memorial Day and Labor Day spring directly to mind.

Cinco De Mayo.

July 4th.

Others?



What a dumbass.
 
Tonio

Tonio

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Toxick said:
I'd be interested to know what the atheist would want to celebrate exactly?
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Although I'm not an atheist, I've called myself an "atheist sympathizer" because I believe in skepticism regarding all religions' claims about the supernatural. More to the point, I say that whether or not someone believes in supernatural life is no one else's business.

It's already been established that the story is fiction, so the atheist in the story is obviously a straw man. I suspect most atheists would find such a legal complaint to be ridiculous and a waste of the court's time, just as most Christians do not act anything like Pat Robertson. Just a guess, but maybe the unknown author of the story takes the atheist stance personally, like the author believes that atheism is about the destruction of all religion instead of simply the individual's belief.
 
Toxick

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Nucklesack said:
But none of them are a celebration of Aethism. Christians and Jews do have holidays in celebration/recognition of their beliefs.
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Well, then - what is there to celebrate?


I am under the impression that atheism is not so much a belief in something, as a lack of belief in something.

Or rather, an active belief in Nothing.



So if you're going to celebrate nothing then... knock yourself out.





Look - I'm celebrating nothing right now.




And I'm doing it in your honor.
 
Tonio

Tonio

Asperger's Poster Child
Toxick said:
Horray! When I die I become worm-chow.
Huzzah! There's nothing out there!
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I can imagine an atheist believing in an afterlife, and I can imagine a theist not believing in an afterlife.

In any case, what's the big deal if someone is an atheist? True, there are the vocal evangelistic ones like Slotted who fling words like "stupid" and "ignorant" at religious people. While I condemn such behavior as offensive and juvenile, I also suggest that the behavior is really a desperate desire for attention and has nothing to do with atheism. Each of us probably knows a few atheists who choose not to advertise that fact, and no one (atheist or otherwise) is under any obligation to advertise their beliefs.
 
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Bustem' Down

Bustem' Down

Give Peas a Chance
Toxick said:
Well, then - what is there to celebrate?


I am under the impression that atheism is not so much a belief in something, as a lack of belief in something.

Or rather, an active belief in Nothing.



So if you're going to celebrate nothing then... knock yourself out.





Look - I'm celebrating nothing right now.




And I'm doing it in your honor.
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Who says you have to have a god to celebrate something. I could celebrate my freedom from religious dogma. The freedom to believe what I want, not what someone tells me.
 
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Bustem' Down said:
Who says you have to have a god to celebrate something. I could celebrate my freedom from religious dogma. The freedom to believe what I want, not what someone tells me.
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Watch it, you get red karma for that kind of attitude, mister.
 
Toxick

Toxick

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55Chevy said:
Watch it, you get red karma for that kind of attitude, mister.
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Yeah - I am pretty intolerant like that - giving out red karma every time someone disagrees with me. In real life I hit people who disagree with me. Or run them over with my car.


:rolleyes:


I missed Bustem's reply before:

Bustem' Down said:
Who says you have to have a god to celebrate something. I could celebrate my freedom from religious dogma.
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I could celebrate my freedom from cholesterol. Or my freedom from noise-pollution. I suppose it's a valid argument, but if I were an atheist I wouldn't consider this something to celebrate any more than I would celebrate my ability to breath air, or take a dump. (And I was an atheist... so I know for sure what I'd do in any given situation ;) )


Bustem' Down said:
The freedom to believe what I want, not what someone tells me.
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We all celebrate that on July 4th.



Believe it or not, but I, as a Christian, do enjoy the freedom to believe what I want and not what someone tells me. Nobody is forcing me to believe as I do.








Although some would argue that the existence of God implies that there is no such thing as freedom at all - but I digress.
 
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