Imagine No Religion

[Atheist Mother]

I wish I still lived in Seattle, I love that city.


http://ffrf.org/news/2008/seattlebillboard_pub.php

A "stained glass" billboard bearing the message, "Imagine No Religion," has just gone up in Seattle for a month. The colorful billboard appears on Denny Way Hill, east of Stewart Street, in the Capitol Hill/Broadway area of Seattle.

The billboard is sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the nation's largest membership association for freethinkers (atheists and agnostics), which is also a state/church separation watchdog. The Foundation has more than 12,000 members.

"So far as we know, this is the first-ever freethinking billboard to be placed in the Seattle area. We consider Seattle fertile ground," said Foundation co-president Dan Barker, author of Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist. Barker noted that polls and surveys invariably reveal that unbelief is highest in the Pacific Northwest.

[Chimera]

Makes me wanna pack up and move back to Seattle. Or at least try to get the same billboard put up here in religiostitious eastern Washington.

[susangail]

Whooo!!! Go Seattle! *trying to imagine billboard in Bakersfield.... sigh, not happening*

But I can't help wondering how long it will actually stay up before fundies throw a fit and tear it down.

[rlrose328]

Wish it were still going to be there in September when we go up to Seattle... <sigh>

I guess, of course, there were many people who were not happy with it at all... belittling their beliefs or some such crap.  Only THEIR belief system is worth of billboards, I guess.  There's this billboard on I-5 in Northern California (on a truck trailer, actually) with a huge arm outstretched, hand facing upward, wrist slashed and pouring blood... it says, "He shed his blood for you."  It disturbs me every time I see it... how very gruesome to worship a god who practices self-sacrifice and caniballism... and his fan club can put up signs and billboards about it, but ONE freethinker billboard and they get all miffed and pissy about it.