National Day of Reason, The First Deist Holiday?

Recently, I came across a website entitled, National Day of Reason. The site brought up a great point. Our calendar is filled with celebrations of religious holidays. In a country built on the principles of religious tolerance and religious freedom it seems absurd that we willfully celebrate and embrace the traditions of a few chosen religions, such as Christianity. The idea of separation of church and state is under attack from the relentless idea of expanding the national celebration of superstitious holidays.

A day recognized as the National Day of Reason will allow all Americans to participate in celebration around an idea that everyone should embrace, Reason.

"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
Benjamin Franklin

Franklin realized that by allowing the revealed religions take a larger role in our lives we were shutting our eyes to truth. Faith promotes the following of blind ideas, dogmas, superstitions, and celebration. Currently the American society is caught up in celebrating the resurrection and crucifiction of a man. The so called faith of the revealed religions has duped men and women in to believing in superstitous and irrational ideologies. Hardly any of us takes a step back and actually thinks about the impact of allowing these ideas to be celebrated on a national level.

I am not of the belief that these celebrations will end over night, but creating competing holidays and celebrations will lessen the impact of these irrational ideas and perhaps one day enough people will open their eyes to reason and leave behind faith. The Roman Emperor, Constantine, knew that his subjects would not abandon their pagan religions overnight. So, when he established the Christian calendar, Christian holidays were created around pagan celebrations. eventually, through the influence of the church and state, the celebration of the pagan holidays turned into Christian holidays like Christmas and Good Friday, even though the dates remained the same. I am not advocating this approach to subverting the ideologies of our society, but it does highlight the fact that change can happen. We just have to appeal to the public's sense of reason.

By establishing a National Day of Reason we can begin to reopen the eyes of individuals who are so reliant on faith, and allow then to see truth by using their God given reason.

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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Christian Holiday Origins
Pagan Christian Holidays