The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration in the United States instituted by humanists, atheists, and other secularists and freethinkers as an alternative to the National Day of Prayer.^[1] Some organizations associated with the NDR have organized blood donations.^[2] Other local groups, such as the Oklahoma Atheists and the Minnesota Atheists have organized secular celebrations as alternatives to the National Day of Prayer.^[3]

The day is celebrated on the first Thursday in May every year, to coincide with the National Day of Prayer. In 2008 it fell on May 1, the 75th anniversary of the first Humanist Manifesto.

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