In their attempt to become, in effect, a socially-acceptable religion–getting military chaplains, vaunting how moral they are, and evangelizing the unenlightened–atheists are trying to start a holiday. May 5 is the National Day of Reason!
I love holidays and I love reason, so I am willing to celebrate. . .uh, what is it we are celebrating? I will try to set aside time to think. But don’t we need something more to inspire our observance, to give it some meaning? It turns out that May 5 was chosen simply to counter something else that is on that day, the National Day of Prayer. The atheists are protesting that by trying to take over the day for themselves.
This demonstrates the weakness of atheism. It is purely reactive. Its doctrines are purely negative (there is no God; there is no life after death; there is no meaning in life). And even when its teachings are put in a positive way–we believe in reason! we believe that material things are all that exist!–there is nothing, really, to celebrate, or even to be happy about.