Let Us Bow Our Heads and Pray: Sunday Is Carl Sagan Day

Well, maybe not pray, but certainly adopt a suitably worshipful attitude while venerating an icon of materialism. Back when the new Cosmos series with Neil Tyson was getting ready to air, Kimberly Winston of Religion News Service noted the existence of a special day of which I was not previously aware. November 9, this upcoming Sunday, is celebrated by "atheists, agnostics, humanists and other "nones'" as Carl Sagan Day, eagerly anticipated as an occasion to renew their commitment:

Humanists...