I don't think that celebrations should be reserved for the superstitious, including religious people. I don't see anything negative about Darwin Day or Solstice and Equinox celebrations.

We'll probably coordinate activities with some of the other groups in our area, since we're a tiny and newish group with few resources, and we're all stronger together.

There are legal holidays not only for religious holidays, but also for cultural "heroes," as Charles Sullivan points out. And those legally recognized Christian holidays seem to me a violation of separation of church and state. Not only should we celebrate Darwin Day as a holiday, but it should be an official holiday, since Christians get Christmas and Easter.

And for that matter, if Christians get legal holidays, every other belief should, too. But that would mean that we would have to work about 0 days out of the year, which would finish off the last of what's left of our economy. Easier and better for the country to abolish those Christian holidays, but we won't see that any time soon.

I've never thought that it's right that Halloween isn't an official holiday. Not that pagans are any more "right" than any other superstitious people, but Halloween is more fun than any other "holiday."

~Jeanette M. Norman