I wish I still lived in Seattle, I love that city.
http://ffrf.org/news/2008/seattlebillboard_pub.php (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.
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.
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.
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.