Mrrzy, I think what we've got is a wording thing happening.

"noticing physical reality, like the fact that our orbit is elliptical and our planet's axis of rotation tilted from the orthogonal to the plane of that orbit...The days DO get shorter, in the fall...physical demonstration of love of family"

To me, doing these things in awareness of them, of your part in them, MAKES them holy, and makes time spent with people you love sacred. I'm not talking about supernatural beings at all. Mindfulness of the blessings of love, and of the Earth, are religion enough for many, name it what you will.

Dani