The Institute for Humanist Studies, an Albany, N.Y.-based nonprofit, is calling attention to its calendar of atheist holidays on it Web site, www.secularseasons.org. The group wants nonbelievers (or at least people who don't celebrate religious holidays) to have a handy reference guide of the calendar of holidays honoring free-thinkers, banned books and nature, among other themes.
People, if you're going to make a whole institute to oppose religion, don't do it by imitating religion from the get-go. Instead of creating an alternative, you're just making your own religion, complete with its own holy days, saints, and everything. All that does is make you look anti-Christian, not pro-Humanism.




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