An Atheist's Worst Holiday . . .
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
. . . is apparently Thanksgiving.
Yes, I am totally devastated. This moment is so much worse than anything I ever experienced in the church! (Sarcasm)
In all seriousness, Robert Ingersoll said it far better than I ever could.
How are you all celebrating today? I am loving the smell of pumpkin pie and turkey emanating from the oven! We’re having Thanksgiving dinner, not lunch, and I can’t wait! I love Thanksgiving! I won’t bore you with a long list of everything I’m thankful for. I confess, I skipped right over those posts on my Google Reader this morning! 
But I will say this: I am grateful for second chances. I’ve still got a long way to go, but I have come so very far.
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November 26th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Being in the UK, we don’t do thanksgiving, but if we did, I’d be thankful to whoever worked their behind off for two days to bring me that delicious turkey dinner! Actually since at Christmas that will be me, I guess I’d be thankful to myself for cooking and my lady for being there to share it
(PS, Yes, I’m an atheist and yes, I do have “Christmas” in my home – it started as a Pagan festival before Christians took it over, I’m just perverting it a bit further for my own ends, namely that I love to cook a great big roast dinner and scoff it with my loved ones).
November 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I do Christmas, too, for the same reasons. It’s the easiest holiday to secularize, and that’s what we do. Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for what we receive. Christmas is our turn to give. I still celebrate mainstream holidays, even ones with a religious bent to them, because my parents wouldn’t let me celebrate Halloween growing up, and I resented it (and wound up celebrating it as an adult). Even Easter has been secularized enough that you can make it about Easter eggs and picnics and fun (and like Christmas, started off as a pagan festival); the end of winter, the return of spring and nature, etc. Anyways, I have a post about it scheduled for closer to Christmas.
For Thanksgiving, I am just grateful. I don’t have to have a particular person to be grateful to.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
What do they mean “nobody”? Why not thank the many people who labored to provide the bounty they’re eating that day, the oven/stove that cooked it, the gas or electricity that powered that stove/oven (and the rest of the house), the dining set, dishes, cutlery and glassware that allow them to not be eating it off the floor with their hands, and so on? Why do some people presume that if you don’t believe in a magic fairy your life is destitute and you have nobody to thank, nothing to hope for, no purpose, etc? Gah!
November 27th, 2009 at 3:44 am
I as an atheist am thankful to my mother and father and the rest of my family. Without there loving support I would not be where I am today. I am also thankful to the atheist and skeptical community. They do great work and help humanity advance to a greater level of logic and humanistic values. And finally I am thankful to humanity as a whole which will always give me hope for the future.
February 27th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I’m grateful for Hungry Man Turkey Dinners. Five minutes in the microwave and the work is all done!