A nontheistic haggadah. No "God." Instead we have the good stories, important quotes, and the four questions (plus one). Only takes 15 minutes to get through. This haggadah helps you get to your meal before the matzah balls get cold.
Myself and my amazing girlfriend, Tina Vaughn (check out her website) put this together last year. But we borrowed heavily from a few sources.
This is a condensed version from the adaptation "A Humaanist Modern Version Haggadah For Passover" by Eszter Hargittai. Her text is great, but we wanted to make it shorter and add in some of our favorite quotes. She got her version by adapting Machar's "A HUMANIST HAGGADAH FOR PASSOVER" and "Passover Haggadah for a Secular-Humanist Seder" City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, New York City.
We got some prayers and songs from other places around the web. Quotes came via wikiquote or Google.
If you see anything wrong, let me know by telling me on twitter.
Basically: we wanted a concise nontheistic version of a Haggadah. We both love Passover: the stories, the questions, the food, the time you spend with your families, and the fact that it's a meal that has a lot of important themes that still resonate today. Slavery is still an issue in this world, and we wanted a Haggadah that focused on the theme of civil and social liberties and brought them into a modern context.
First off, setting up a passover seder is easy. You have a week to gather your friends and family (anyone you love and are thankful for being in your life) for a passover meal. Arrange a seder plate with the usual stuff but add an orange. Put the seder plate in the center of the plate. Don't forget to cook your food. Personally: I like matzoh-ball soup and brisket the most.
Print this Haggadah out, or send it around to folks before hand. You probably need at least 4 people, but honestly, you could make it work with two. Just make sure the group sections are read aloud by everyone, it makes it a lot more powerful and uniting. At every section change, you can change readers if you have a large crowd. If that's the case, it's probably a good idea to have one person giving out reading assignments and prompting folks to join.
Not at all. We specifically meant this to be open to all sorts of people of all kinds of faith and we sourced most of the text from secular-oriented haggadahs. If you want to take this and make it more specific to your background, you are welcome to do so.
Sure. Here's a link to a public Google Doc. Feel free to download and turn it into whatever format you want.