May 15th, Falwell's death anniversary is the National Christians Shut the Fuck Up Day.
The day Jerry Falwell died is going to be the day we celebrate Christians Shut the Fuck Up Day. The 1st annual Christians Shut the Fuck Up Day will be May 15, 2024. Help get the word out.
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Christians Shut the Fuck Up Day
There were 1,678 likes, 602 comments in the 13 groups in which I made the post, and of the five groups which allow sharing, there was 70 shares. I dropped the groups that rejected the post. Don’t ask me which ones. I don’t want to give them publicity.
I read each and every comment. About 99% of them suggested every day, in responses, such as “every day,” “days ending in y,” “Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st.”
Of course what we are asking for is every day, and Shut the Fuck Up Day, isn’t Shut the Fuck Up Today. I know people were expressing themselves humorously and in one way it was good, since I got to see that I am not the only person really fed up with Christians. But it wasn’t helpful in selecting a day.
Some were like the following:
Split the difference between average time of Easter (March 31) and Christmas. By my calculations that's about August 10 or 11-- nice because August 1 is the Celtic pagan festival of Lughnasa (harvest time, start of autumn when summer is fading, just like Christianity should...) and we wouldn't want to be seen as taking over a festival like the Christians did.
There were a few suggestions that were reasonable, about 4 or 5.
I wasn’t coming up with good ideas either, I had thought of Giordano Bruno, February 17, 1600, but though he was burned at the stake, and is a well-known example of church persecution, it was also over 400 years ago. It might be argued that it was in the past and modern-day Christianity is blah, blah, blah. It also doesn’t bring to mind what is currently really annoying us about Christianity.
The putting of John Scopes on trial for teaching evolution I thought might be good, but Darwin Day is already focusing on evolution. We would be duplicating.
Then, I realized I was approaching the problem from the wrong direction and reverse the direction of thinking.
It went this way.
[1] Why do people want to say, “Christians shut the fuck up?”
[2] They are annoyed with Evangelicals, televangelists, and other prominent obnoxious Christians on one or another crusade to boss everyone.
[3] Who are the most prominent and most resented and unpopular Evangelicals, Televangelists, and other prominent Christian leaders.
[4] Which ones have died. So we have a day.
You can’t use a birthday, because celebrating a birthday is inherently laudatory.
Then it came to me. Who has been one of the most resented prominent Christian leaders who is seen as the beginnings of obnoxious Christianity? Who is really widely known? Who has died?
The answer is, Jerry Falwell, who started the organization, The Moral Majority. Who is widely known and resented. He died on May 15, 2007.
The weather will be warm or tolerable for outdoor activities and protests.
Falwell has been one of the major reasons that Christianity is declining and is resented.
He has been one of the most prominent obnoxious Christians.
Having him associated with “Christianity Shut the Fuck Up Day,” will make the public aware of him, and just reviving the memory of him will cause a decline in Christianity and the respect that it might command.
His university, Liberty University, still exists and is run by his son, Jerry Fallwell Jr. They will likely provide some amusement.
Other possible persons.
There are some other prominent televangelists but they are not dead. Having a day on a person’s birthday is celebrating them. Most of the other televangelists aren’t as prominent as Jerry Falwell, and none of them created the Moral Majority.
I did consider Pat Robertson, he is really an obnoxious Christian, but he isn’t dead yet.
Fred Phelps, of Westboro Baptist Church, is dead and hated, but he can be dismissed as fringe and unrepresentative.
W.A. Criswell was a candidate. He was obnoxious and infamous as a racist back in the 1950s and later, and he was said AIDS was God’s punishment for homosexual sex in the 1980s. However, he has been fading into history and isn’t as widely known.
Rejecting Christmas
Quit a few people, about 3%, or 30 to 40 some, picked Christmas so I really thought about it seriously. It does have some appeal.
However, we will have to endlessly explain we aren’t against the fun of the holiday season. We won’t have anything that instinctively makes people feel that they want to have Christians to shut up. Finally, during the Christmas season, Christians often tend to be on better behavior and not engaged in moral judgements.
We will appear to be moralistic and kill joys.
Rejecting Easter
Does anyone know on what date next year’s Easter will appear? We need a fixed calendar date. Plus, Easter is celebrated on different Sundays depending on weather it is a Western church or Eastern Orthodox.
Christian Shut the Fuck Up Day Activities
We should have a cake to celebrate.
We could have lectures on the historical crimes and scandals of the Christians.
We should point out local religious leaders that might consider shutting the fuck up.
We can discuss projects that one person can do to fight obnoxious Christianity.
We should do an informative post on social media in regards to some thing about the obnoxiousness of Christians. Not some simplistic meme, but something that will contribute to the effort. A link to a good article and an explanation of why it is important might be good to do.
For example I posted a link to this article and I suggested that what the Maoris have done to decolonize which resulted in giving up Christianity might have application in other places where Christianity is a result of colonization.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1177083X.2024.2333544
Something that has thought and will be useful.
Suggest days to be added to the Christians Shut the Fuck Up Calendar. This will be a calendar of days of when Christians did specific obnoxious things.
We need to start now to think of things to do.
Next Actions.
I need to assemble a good post with lots of information about Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority and links to other pages with information as well as provide a bibliography of books and articles about him.
We need to start a campaign of publicity.
For starters I am going to do a post about this in the Facebook atheist groups which I didn’t post before.
We need to compile arguments to defend having this day. I will get started.
Christians Shut the Fuck Up days in other nations.
Having Jerry Falwell death day is likely good for a day in the United States. Other places on the globe have other obnoxious days in their history.
For example, in South Korea, there are repeated attempts to burn Buddhist temples down by crazed Christian arsonists. Nigerians might select this person. He is dead and notorious.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67944614
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TB_Joshua