Happy Easter! Atheists!

Now, that's just wrong. 

Easter is for Christians of most stripes and bonnets, maybe animists and bunny worshipers.

Not Atheists.

Don't Atheists have pretty much have the rest of the year to celebrate whatever Atheists don't believe in?  And they have all other days of the week, which were named for various gods, by the way.  Do atheists have their own names for the days of the week or do they just love the irony of using the regular polytheist ones.

CNN.com revealed the impolite Easter plans of the American Atheists to congregate at their national convention in a Newark ballroom.  Yes, in Newark... serves them right.

Their leader, Dave Silverman, who sounds Atheist, ticked off a list of things to CNN.com's John Blake that Atheists don't do:  Sacrificing Christian babies, dancing naked, worshiping Satan, being immoral.  He did not mention anything they actually do, except the convention.  It makes you wonder why he would go to such trouble to list the don'ts.  Someone is doing all that stuff, right?  Does, perhaps, he protest too much?

Dave disingenuously claims that Easter is just a good time for not-believers to assemble and not-worship together.  Hotel ballrooms are discounted and it is a long weekend.  Nice try, but the same applies to Columbus Day in Newark.  Or Patriots' Day in Foxboro.

The Atheists got to meet with some White House staffers to complain about the lack equal treatment for America's many Atheists, some, according to Dave, still in their closets.  Presumably, then, many of Dave's Atheists are gay, too.

Which Christians always suspected, of course.

David, do you need a clue?   Atheists are probably reviled because they are lousy at PR.  One clever campaign and they could rally most Americans to their collective side.  Here's a preliminary idea:  Think waving US flags; maybe some determined if sandy soldiers directing a predator strike; Stirring if Godless music.

And the slogan, which may need work:  "America's Atheists:  Not Just Not Believing!  Not Believing Just in Allah!"