Travelers on American highways may be subject to a new type of billboard.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has started a month long campaign in New Jersey featuring billboards advocating reason, evolution, and separation of church and state.
The Foundation began its first billboard campaign in October 2007 and is currently campaigning in New Orleans and the Tampa Bay area. The series of billboards with various messages advocating freedom from religion will come to Atlanta after Labor Day.
One of the messages blazoned across the billboards is designed to refute action taken by Congress in 1956 which added “In God We Trust” to American coinage. See the penny billboard image posted here. Prior to 1956, America’s history was decidedly secular, as planned by the Founding Fathers.
The Foundation, based in Madison, Wisconsin, has thousands of members and lawyers who work nationwide to keep church and state separate. They represent the over 15 percent of Americans who are nonreligious, stating that “citizenship should not be tied to piety.”
Religious citizens and those practicing minority religions in the US are also supported by the Foundation by their efforts to maintain the constitutional right to separation of church and state.
Foundation lawyers are responding to a breach of separation of church and state in metro Atlanta. Read about it here:
Jesus Christ in metro Atlanta courthouse
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I wasn't aware of the Freedom From Religion Foundation or billboard campaign, I'll find out more about it.
Proselytizing by religious advocates regardless of their particular cult has plagued humanity for millenia. Like any useless, outmoded, or even detrimental physical appendage, evolution, by way of natural selection, may be slow but it's effective. This or that sky-fairy concoction will be replaced through reason, logic, and scientific evaluations. Our dilemma is the carnage and atrocities brought about by these superstitious fabrications before their elimination is complete. Those willing to step up and speak out anent these illusions/delusions are pioneers on the cutting edge of human development. I applaud FFRF and other organizations who are at the forefront. The emotional frenzy of overreaction and whacko responses based on religious indoctrinations have given rise to more problems than problems solved..
The FFRF has a nice variety of signs throughout the United States. They have taught many that they are not alone in valuing reason.
http://www.ffrf.org/get-involved/bus-billboard-campaign/billboards-buswr...
The individual defendant whom overlooks evidence in the trials of life, in order to come to an conclusion... has a fool for a client and is a shame to themselves...
Good piece, love your John Lenonesque headline.
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