What would be a good holiday for atheists?

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Eat food, decorate house in pretty colours, give pressies for the fun of it holiday! In other words all the existing holidays like Christmas and Easter, and I don't have to stick with the Christian stuff either, Divali looks fun I might try that some time.

Ok first I want to say that without 'Believers' there would be no atheists.

So atheists should have a 'Thank you God worshipers' day for giving us someone to be different from.

The 29th of Febuary would be ideal for this as no one else is using it and it only exists because some people decided that the natural uncomplicated and elegant passing of days, months and seasons had to be given made up names and that everyone had to change the way they behave to fit in with that fiction. Then later when the numbers didn't add up they conveniently invented an extra unplanned day that sacrifices it's place in the other three years to save the whole calender.

Appropriate ?

And just to really rub it in atheists should publicise the 29/2 holiday get it internationally recognised and then not observe it.

Atheists should compromise and should celebrate their common heritage with modern non atheists by honoring some of the ancient pioneers of monotheism- on the theory that atleast monotheism was a step in the right direction ( you know - paring down the number of dieties from dozens and hundreds down to one).

Figures like Iknaton, Abraham, and Zoroaster, paved the way for both modern monotheists ( who disbelieve in Zeuse, Ishtar, Baal, Woden, and hundreds of other dieties) and modern athiests who believe in one fewer God than monotheists do.

I don't mind religious holidays, and I find it perfectly find to give people time off work and school to perform their rituals.
I also think it's only fair that the rest of us get the same amount of days off.
I just don't think it is OK to force everybody to take the same days off.
Sundays I approve of, btw. I like that we have one day a week where almost everybody shares the time off, and I don't mind that the choice of Sunday has christian roots.

Here in Norway we have a lot of days off every year for religious and other reasons.
That's fine, of course. Everybody likes time off. What annoys me is that we call them by their christian names. I hate having to explain to my kids that everything is closed today because a minority believes something that is severely insignificant to anyone else happened on this day long ago. That's so silly. Give us all a bunch of days to take off every year, and let us pick when and for what reason. Then the christians can take time off at easter, muslims can focus on other stuff at other times, and I can take my nameless days off whenever I want.

I don't need any special days to somehow celebrate a lack of religious faith, but I want my days off!

I agree.