Today is the 4th anniversary of “Hug an Atheist Day.” The day started June 1 at midnight and ends June 2 at midnight, a time during which anyone can enjoy “an atheist’s warm embrace.”
The day of atheist hugging was started as a Facebook group, and instructs invitees to:
1. Find an atheist, agnostic, ignostic, nontheist, antitheist, antireligionist, apatheist, secular humanist, skeptic, misotheist, dystheist, structuralist, freethinker, naturalistic pantheist, absurdist, deist, therevada buddhist, mahayana, zen buddhist, nihiilst, marxist, pastafarian, spagnostic, gropaga, existentialist, or anyone else who doubts the existence of a god.
2. Run up to that nonbeliever, and give him/her a gigantic hug!
This might be a hard thing for the hardcore true believer to do, but this type could certainly use some practice in the area of kindness and tolerance.
One hilarious Facebook commenter read “When is it time for Handjob an Atheist Day?”
Indeed.
June 01, 2012 at 5:51 pm, Judy Johnson said:
Hugs!
June 01, 2012 at 9:26 pm, Wade Bowers said:
so that other event >.>.
June 01, 2012 at 10:39 pm, Kolette Hollaway said:
Yes we hug you cause you're going to Hell.
June 01, 2012 at 10:54 pm, Viviana Paz said:
wow
June 01, 2012 at 11:06 pm, Alexander Pierre-Fällman said:
Even if this event is silly, I'm hoping most hugs won't have that reasoning behind. I wouldn't take that hug D:
June 02, 2012 at 1:01 am, Jorge Borrani said:
"Yes we hug you cause you're going to Hell"…which doesn't even exist! anyway the hug does and that's what Jesus would've done… right?
June 02, 2012 at 1:14 am, Kolette Hollaway said:
Sorry guys it was a family sarcasm, most of my family are atheist. Thought this was only posting to my FB. It wasn't meant to offend anyone.
June 02, 2012 at 1:22 am, Alexander Pierre-Fällman said:
Aw okay <3333
August 08, 2012 at 11:34 pm, Brandon Meyer said:
Careful, You might catch our liberal gay black logic if you get too close.
June 01, 2012 at 10:49 pm, Paul Stephens said:
I prefer free hug day…which is everyday.
June 01, 2012 at 11:12 pm, Erick Olson said:
Just because some Atheist is so annoying or ugly that they can't get anybody to touch them doesn't mean they need to drag a bunch of other legitimate beliefs into some goofy mandatory-hug day. I especially resent humanism and agnosticism being here. Additionally, not all of the listed beliefs doubt the belief of "a God." For example, many Buddhists consider the Buddha to be a god (though that is a perversion of Siddhartha's teachings), but I think what you are really getting at is that you want to exclude Abrahamic faiths from something.
These kinds of goofy "National X a Y" days are just plain depressing. Especially if the 'creator' of the day is a legal adult. I can only pray that s/he is a minor and doesn't know better.
June 03, 2012 at 5:25 pm, Njal Stormcaller said:
Your god must prohibit finding humor in anything.
June 03, 2012 at 5:55 pm, Erick Olson said:
>Implying I have a god. I do think this is funny, but for all most depressing reasons.
June 04, 2012 at 2:33 pm, Njal Stormcaller said:
implying that any belief is legitimate was the true joke.
June 01, 2012 at 11:31 pm, Mark A. Siefert said:
Pass. Seems like a easy way for religionists to sink a knife into our backs.
June 01, 2012 at 8:30 pm, This & That - The Daily What said:
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June 02, 2012 at 1:24 am, Karen Millan said:
hugs to everyone, of every faith or none
June 02, 2012 at 1:56 am, Mike Van Roy said:
As for the smartass who made the handjob joke… Guilty as charged.
June 02, 2012 at 7:58 am, Dermot Archie Mac Conville said:
nicely done!
June 02, 2012 at 5:32 am, Michelle Pymble said:
This was easy, all I had to do was turn to my left and hug my fiancée
June 02, 2012 at 5:30 pm, Mandi Leedom said:
Yay!