I always celebrate on the 23rd of April as it's my Birthday. I See nothing wrong with the people of a nation celebrating that nation's existence. (Though if I were to wrap myself in the flag it would be the Northumbrian one) St George is patron Saint of England because he intervened on the Norman side in a couple of battles during the Crusades. This must be true because the then Pope says it happened. Humanism is neither a religion nor particularly practiced in England. If you'd like to celebrate anything else that day,it's the Birthday of Roy Orbison & ,er, Shirley Temple as well as Shakespeare.
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