OPINION: FFRF Gives Alabama Its First Ever Atheist Billboard

By Freedom From Religion Foundation , Protecting Church and State Separation - June 25, 2009

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A 14x48-foot billboard emblazoned with the John Lennonesque message, "Imagine No Religion," and a stained-glass window backdrop, went up this week for one month on I-20, near the Riverside exit en route to Talladega. Drivers going to Talladega from Atlanta or Birmingham will pass the billboard, believed to be the first such freethought (atheist, agnostic) message ever placed in Alabama. The colorful billboard went up just in time for the annual "Glorious 4th" celebration in rural Talledega ... Read the Full Article
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  • UrsulaMinor
    right idea, wrong implementation

    I'm glad that they are doing this, and I'm not overly concerned about angering religious people - If someone is so unreasonable as to get steaming mad over something like this, then I'm glad that other people can see them behave this way. In any case, a timid campaign would be ignored - too much caution would make this an enormous waste of money .

    However, I don't like the stained glass background - all I can think of when I see this is " Imagine no religion - we'd have no more stained glass windows or gorgeous, over the top architecture as sponsored by the coffers of churches throughout the ages?" The history of art is far too tied up with the history of religion for me to see this particular implementation of ' No religion' as a positive one. Religion is responsible for worse things than sponsoring craftsmen to put coloured glass between pieces of lead in a window.

    - UrsulaMinorCA June 25, 2009 5:34PM

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