Atheists Challenge Weekend In Court

Atheists Challenge Weekend In Court

In a most unusual attempt to create equality for everyone and enforce the separation of church and state, some atheists have sued to have the current weekend declared unconstitutional. In their news conference they pointed out the obvious, that their personal liberties were being infringed upon because they had to have the same weekend, based upon religious days, as everyone else. Saturday and Sunday are both considered the Sabbath by various religions and were chosen as days off because that’s the day most religions have their religious services. The atheists stated that many of them would like to do their business with government offices when they were off work on Saturday or Sunday, but the offices are closed, presumably because of the day’s religious connection. They have suggested to the judge that the weekend be determined by an impartial lottery that would be fair to all and the judge was inclined to agree. Included in the suit is a complaint also asking that the names of the days be changed because they are named after Roman, Norse and other pagan religious deities and we can’t have that. One atheist confided that he attended UCSD and recently converted to the Sun god religion and so Sunday as a name was fine with him. He said that the Sun god had requested that we give his pal some respect and make Monday part of the weekend also.

©2009 Eric Stamets