If evangelicals can climb on soap boxes, why not atheists?
A report from the AP:
Ads promoting atheism will be going up in New York City subway stations.
The monthlong ad campaign begins next Monday in a dozen Manhattan stations.
It features the slogan, “A Million New Yorkers Are Good Without God. Are You?”
The campaign is being coordinated by the umbrella organization Coalition of Reason. It cost $25,000 and was funded by an anonymous donor.
The coalition has placed similar billboards in the Dallas area and West Virginia. Another group ran ads in Chicago and in the Indiana cities of Bloomington and South Bend.
In July, another group, New York City Atheists, ran a similar but unrelated campaign on city buses.
H/T The A.
posted October 20, 2009 at 7:33 am
I must admit that I’m somewhat surprised they didn’t start their ad campaign on their national holiday – April Fool’s Day…
Hey, only in America!
posted October 20, 2009 at 8:33 am
I think the Anchoress is on to something when she says that atheists are beginning to organize themselves like a religion. They have a pope (Richard Dawkins), a college of cardinals (Dennett, Harris, Hitchens, Myers), television evangelists (Penn & Teller and Bill Maher) and even heretics (Antony Flew).
Did you hear that they now give out an award for atheist of the year? It’s named for Richard Dawkins and honors the person who most advances atheism, reason and science. This year’s honoree is Bill Maher, a man who rejects the germ theory and recommends that people not vaccinate themselves. He begged David Letterman on Late Nite to stop taking his heart medication. What a triumph for rational, atheistic, scientific inquiry!
posted October 20, 2009 at 9:40 am
Good to hear they are organizing as a religion. There is more truth in that position. We can look forward to their scientism views being banned in the classroom that much faster.
Dawkins followers are always stunned into silence when I demonstrate their views are based on blind faith.
(Simple logic. 1) First we establish the only way we observe anything is through our conscious awareness. 2) Then we find they postulate material conditions precede consciousness. 3) In conclusion, we see that, given there is no way to observe material conditions without the existence of consciousness, the existence of material conditions absent consciousness is something that cannot be observed — it must always remain a matter of conjecture or blind faith. 4) Thus materialism (naturalism) must always remain a religion based on blind faith.)
Strange how things are so frequently the opposite of what they seem o the surface.
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