The Center for Inquiry has launched a national multimedia campaign to push the message that it is possible to live a moral and happy life without religion.
The campaign kicked off on March 1st with a series of advertisements on the sides of buses in Washington, D.C, carrying the slogan 'You don't need God - to hope, to care, to love, to live'. In the coming weeks, billboards will go up in Houston and Indianapolis bearing the same message. A website has also been set up for people seeking more information about the CFI and the new initiative.
These kind of tactics are not without precedent: In the UK in 2009, controversy raged over a similar campaign, sponsored by the British Humanist Association and the Richard Dawkins Foundation, which saw London buses carrying the message 'There's Probably No God. Now Stop Worrying and Enjoy Your Life'.
The purpose of the initiative is to counter the popular misconception that the irreligious have no moral code by which to live and that their lives are empty and self-centered, a notion that CFI president Ronald A. Linsey dismisses as "ridiculous".
For more information about the CFI and the Living without Religion campaign, visit their website.
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