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See YouTube 8/13/19 video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction” (written 4/1 for National Atheist’s Day), read from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” outside in Chicago south of Grand Central Station (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube 8/13/19 video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction” (written 4/1 for National Atheist’s Day), read from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” outside in Chicago south of Grand Central Station (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just one Day, Let a Girl Dream”, “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction”, “Xeryus Colognes, Aromas, and Scents”, “Once Craned my Neck”, and “Just Read a Book” from the April 2021 v308 issue of cc&d’s paperback book “The Garden of Eden” 4/7/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just one Day, Let a Girl Dream”, “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction”, “Xeryus Colognes, Aromas, and Scents”, “Once Craned my Neck”, and “Just Read a Book” from the April 2021 v308 issue of cc&d’s paperback book “The Garden of Eden” 4/7/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction” from the “The Garden of Eden” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Fiction Becomes Nonfiction” from the “The Garden of Eden” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Fiction Becomes           Nonfiction Janet Kuypers 4/1/19, written on National Atheist’s Day Over fifteen years ago was when a fictional story started circulating around the Internet that an Atheist was suing the government because there were so many religious holidays, and there were no Atheist holidays. As the story goes, the ACLU represented them in court, to get a holiday, but the judge told them there already was a holiday for Atheists, on April 1st — April Fools’ Day. And yes, yes, yes, that is insulting, especially when the judge said this because of the Bible passage, Psalm 14:1, which states “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” Using the Bible to call Atheists fools, that’s rich — when all religions ask you to believe in the impossible when they have no proof, and based on this, Atheists are fools. How deliciously rich. When morality is not prescribed by religion, when religions were once created to explain what people could not understand, when countless wars have been fought for religion, and when our feeble human brains have begun to use science and empirical data to explain what was once only fictionalized by a “god”, maybe Atheists can appreciate April Fools’ Day as an Atheist Day, since everyone around believing in a god is fooling themselves already.

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