Atheist Pride Day on Facebook
For those of us who would like to participate in “Pride Day”, but would rather not use the Dawkins’ branded A:
And the second one without my link:
From Neil, who is organizing a Facebook event this Friday (March 20, 2009):
This virtual event is titled “I am an Atheist”, and it’s goal is to function as a sort of online “Pride Day” for nonbelievers. All day on March 20th, participants will set their profile picture to the Scarlet “A”, and change their status message to read “I am an atheist” or some other similar proclamation of (dis)belief.
I and Danny Piccirillo, the creator of this event, have worked to ensure a positive attitude would surround this day; we’re not looking at it as an opportunity to start fights or awkwardly alienate our colleagues–nothing like that. Instead, we hold the hope that some of the Facebook users out there with ill-informed impressions of the atheist community will see their friends list colored scarlet for one day, and maybe begin to realize that atheists are more diverse than our stereotype, and that we are often in fact productive, caring, ethical people that believers already interact with every day.
I’ll celebrate in my own way.
If you can think of something better to use for this event in the next day or so, let me know and maybe I can make another.
EDIT: Facebook “event” for Atheist Pride Day.
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In all honesty, I can see your point but I participated anyway so as to let others know that they aren’t alone.
Frankly, as a mathematics professor, most of my friends are at least non-theists who really don’t care about the deity/no deity question.
But yeah, having a “non-believers in Santa Claus/Zeus/Thor…etc. day” sounds rather silly.
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