"The purpose of this effort is to praise reason - an idea that every American would willingly support - and to raise public awareness of the constant threat that government intrusion into the private space of worship creates for religious freedom." They write the heads of a website established especially for this purpose by the American Humanist Association.
Today, the first Thursday of May was declared last year by the administration of President Bush as the National Day of Prayer. As we reported last year, The American humanists who are fighting for a shred of sanity have been defeated, therefore a number of humanist organizations, atheists and others, have decided to hold their own events - under the title "National Reason Day" Below is a quote from their website:
National Reasoning Day - about what and why?
Many Americans, for whom the separation of religion and state is important, sought an appropriate response to the national day of prayer that is supported by the administration and annually denigrates the US Constitution. Non-religious Americans (including freethinkers, humanists, atheists, agnostics, and deists), along with traditional religious partners, see this government-sponsored classism as an unseemly anomaly.
A group of leaders from the logic community decided to adopt the idea of "National Logic Day".
This tradition is observed at the same time as the National Day of Prayer, on the first fifth of May, every year (May 2009th in XNUMX). The purpose of this effort is to glorify reason - an idea that every American would willingly support - and to raise public awareness of the constant threat that government intrusion into the private space of worship poses to religious freedom.
The National Reasoning Day is also held to encourage the secular community to be seen and take action to be a worthy example of the way in which positive change is made. Local organizations can name the events they organize on that day as "Reason Day" or, alternatively, with names like "Action Day", "Service Day" or "Rational Engagement Day". The important message is to present a positive and constitutional alternative to the exception of the national day of prayer.
To facilitate the commemoration of National Reasoning Day by individuals or organizations throughout the United States, the friend “American Humanist Association” and the “Secular Humanists of the Washington Area” in 2003 and founded the website “National Reasoning Day". This site was established both to serve as a focal point for the effort aimed at bringing recognition to the National Day of Reason and to provide a platform for criticism of the government's encouragement of the National Day of Prayer. The founders of the website hope that it will be used by the intelligence community, the press and the general public.
On the website you will find statistics concerning the National Day of Prayer, articles on the separation between religion and state written by Bnei Samcha in the field, examples of announcements and press releases and many other aids. The site will focus on the National Reasoning Day events that will be held across the US.
The founders of the website invite individuals and organizations to embrace this awakening campaign and send them information about their plans for the Day of Reason celebrations and the efforts they are making to educate the public on issues related to it. The organizations that hold events and activities in their communities will be presented on the site to allow activists to identify opportunities to organize and participate in local events.
The founders of the website call on everyone who recognizes the serious threat to the wall that separates religion from the state, to express their concern and inform them of his activity.
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Indeed, tweet tweet, I didn't translate the word "we" to "we" in order not to confuse the public and instead I wrote "the founders of the site" which is both a good translation and not confusing.
Of course, those who are disturbed will be disturbed by anything.
Of course I'm also not referring to the State of Israel (which you chose to live in despite the unfounded and horrible accusations you make against it).
Try again.
Let's see if you finally understand.
OK
Let's start with the honorable Avi Belizonevsky,
Maturity in morality and leadership is not a biological function.
A person has no objective possibility to determine the proper and correct morality, it is enough if we look at Hitler and a friend of his people who decided that there is nothing more moral than killing the Jews, the so-called 'to each his own morality'.
It is not the religious who treat the secular as babies, but the relevant facts in this context.
and we will move on to the author of the article,
Regarding the main issue you responded to using the strange term 'translation of a quote',
I was just wondering how you quote the authors of the site as writing about themselves as a third person, it is indeed possible for people with a Mughal tendency, but a review of the source made it clear to me otherwise.
And by the way, why did you comment by 'by the way', do you mean the State of Israel and the Zionists who were indeed the ones she made sure would be burned?
post Scriptum.
For both of you, the kindergartener is not the ultra-Orthodox.
Indeed Tzviki, it is difficult for Deri Hagan to differentiate between right and left and between above and below.
Therefore - to help you deal with such a heavy challenge for your understanding, I will explain to you how it is done.
Everything that is written up to the phrase you mentioned ("below is a quote from their website:") is what I wrote.
Everything that is written after it - as anyone who has already learned to read understands - is the quote (or if it's still hard for you to understand - actually a Hebrew translation of the quote).
By the way, you should remember that during World War II there were people who heard the voice of the Kindergarten teacher and her messengers and were burned because of it.
The truth is that a two-year-old child is really smarter than the kindergartner you are trying to entrust to him.
Indeed Tzviki, an excellent example. Many of the religious treat the secular with patronage, just like a kindergarten teacher treats babies. However, we in the State of Israel deserve to get to the university already and not get stuck in kindergarten.
Mr. Rothschild,
It would be appropriate that before your bickering about the separation of religion from the state you learn to write and separate your coverage from the quote in a way that makes it easier to understand the title after the words 'Here is a quote from their website:' in the content behind it.
As a matter of fact, for the esteemed readers,
Reasoning that is against religion is likened to a group of two-year-old children who decided to use their reason and not listen to the voice of the kindergarten teacher.
Tzviki
Yufi Oren, start your real job: do your job and know yourself.
If the same amount of prayer was invested in real (physical) help for those in need, I think it would be "a little" more effective.
One thing for comfort you understand: whatever the source, this is also for the better.
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Really great explanation.
I didn't understand him, of course, but that was the intention in advance, right Hugin?
To the author of the article who did not understand =
There is a title in one of the books "The Gate of Prayers", the meaning of prayer:
1) "And me-when I look at myself the way I look".
2) "My prayer - and when I look at my prayer what it looks like."
(Amri Haim)
Parash: When I look at my writings, my wishes, my requests, etc., I see how I look...
In short, I won't spare you,
Those who got it, got it.
guest:
Our breathing resembles the breathing of lizards.
If you want us to stop believing in reason because it reminds you of something then I ask you to stop breathing.
A. Ben-Ner:
First of all - you should direct your offer to American factors.
Besides - I wouldn't accept the offer if I were them.
Belief in God who answers our prayers is at odds with critical thinking and is not at odds with compassion.
Such belief can even lead people to compassion.
The problem is that it also leads them - beyond compassion towards some - to cruelty and coercion towards others.
It is also a reactionary force that hinders progress and understanding of the world.
Therefore - in my opinion - Day of Reason is an appropriate name.
Those who think logically will not accept any religion - neither one that believes in God nor one that believes in a superior race (and of course not one that believes in both).
Note that the name is not "the day of secularism" even though part of your response is worded as if it were the name.
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I did not understand anything you wrote.
Agnostic:
It's tragic (in Gimel) that people don't read what's written and react anyway.
The story has nothing to do with Dawkins but the fact that the Americans have a sensible constitution - the smartest constitution ever drafted by the founders of any country - and that there are opal forces in America today that are working against the constitution.
Note that among the organizers of the Day of Reason there are even religious ones.
It's traditionally sad that Dawkins' psychos paint themselves with 'reason' to make noise.
As if we have more of a lack of rationality or thought elsewhere.
The logic of reason = prayer:) Or, the logic of prayer = logic:)
Let's start thinking about it after we pray :)
I would suggest instead of the terms "reason" and "reason" the term ……..compassion". Anmak:
1. On the one hand, what is "reason" and what is "reason"? Is it possible to define them in a precise way that would separate and differentiate them from religious belief? I am satisfied.
2. On the other hand, what is the main reservation that we, the secularists, have
Against religion? In my opinion, mainly the matter of coercion, religious coercion. Coercion, in my opinion, is the opposite of compassion.
The coercion is the bigotry, the coercion is the narrow-mindedness, the coercion is the cruelty. But all these bad habits are not necessarily related to society and religious culture. It has already been proven that religious people can also be people of science, culture and knowledge.
It is not possible to tell the truth about them because, being religious, then they are not "logical" or because they are not "intelligent". That sounds really stupid. On the other hand, there is no shortage of secularists in our world who are tyrannical, cruel and coercive.
Therefore, in conclusion: In my opinion, religion should not necessarily be associated with intolerance and coercion. Intolerance and coercion can also be detected among the secular (and even among those considered "civilized") as well as among (some) of the religious.
Therefore, coercion and cruelty must be fought and compassion and mutual consideration must be taught wherever they are.
In my eyes, science and art are identified with compassion and tolerance, being based on freedom of thought and freedom of expression.
The belief in reason as superior to all other beliefs reminds them a lot