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   Kerr-Mudd, John to Dawn Flood   
   Re: National Day of Reason   
   03 May 24 10:09:48   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, talk.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Fri, 3 May 2024 00:02:18 -0500   
   Dawn Flood  wrote:   
      
   > On 5/2/2024 7:53 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:   
   > > Dawn Flood  wrote in news:v0vqqi$3q5vp$1@dont-   
   > > email.me:   
   > >   
   > >> On 5/1/2024 10:08 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > >>>   From a Google margin box (from Wikipedia?):   
   > >>>   
   > >>> The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists,   
   > >>> atheists, secularists, and freethinkers. The day is celebrated   
   > >>> annually on the first Thursday in May, in response to the statutory   
   > >>> observance of a National Day of Prayer in the United States,   
   > >>> which many atheist and secular groups deem unconstitutional.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >> I signed the FFRF petition.  Give it another century, especially, after   
   > >> people are arguing over whether the State of Florida should be regarded   
   > >> as being part of the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >       The bigger question is whether it is   
   > > part of 12th or 14th century.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Florida school district pulls dictionaries   
   > > and encyclopedias as part of "inappropriate"   
   > > content review   
   > > January 12, 2024   
   > >   
   > > https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-school-district-pulls-dictionaries-   
   > > and-encyclopedias-as-part-of-sexual-or-inappropriate-content-review/   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > Let's see them pull "the Internet".   
   >   
   It's easy, ask the government in China.   
      
   --   
   Bah, and indeed Humbug.   
      
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