you can sleep in on Sunday morning.
Since most religious people are only 'christian' on Sundays (and only during church service), they miss out on that.

Now I only get an extra 15 minutes of sleep on the weekend! That is definitely the worst part of parenting day to day - much less sleep!

Love the little guy though!

And my husband and I are two of them.

Nice to see a group promoting this awareness.

Hell, it's the non-religious leading the religious these days on issues of morality: homosexuality, healthcare, the environment, women's rights. Nevermind peace and guns. Always the liberal left telling the christian right to back off, and sooner or later they have to follow.

I know there are folks who practice some form of faith on our side. But you keep it relative, in its place. It's those 'all-religion all the time' sad sacks dragging everybody down who need to be handed a different reality.

I have been relatively happy ever since i realized that god only exists in the minds and hearts of his believers.
Don't get me wrong,i still love Christ but it is in the same way that i love the philosophers and all those who sought to advance mankind from Simian to Sapience.

You are declaring yourself an atheist.

You do not pledge your faith unless you truly do not have "Faith".

"One nation, under Canada ..."

but I will never forget it!!!

thank you

I think it will help bring Atheism into the public eye.

Why do so many here when agreeing with the OP think that attacking religion and DUers who are religious will help their cause? I was agnostic for most of my life and even though I now go to a really liberal UCC church I still have my questions.

I think it's mostly reactionary and says something about how comfortable one is with their own beliefs or lack of beliefs.

If one is comfortable, then there is no reason to feel threatened and no need to put down those that are different.

That goes for believers as well as non-believers.

What I like about these billboards is the positive message.

Like, blue laws, or religious test for office. Or fighting week after week to keep creationist bullshit out of our school textbooks.

'comfortable with my own beliefs' has FUCK-ALL to do with it.

Because religion is destroying the world. I'm continually inspired by struggles like the fight fought by Rachel Carson against DDT and by C. Everett Koop against smoking. Ms. Carson may have realized that DDT was an effective insecticide, but she never let up on criticizing it, now it's gone. Same (nearly) with Koop's campaign. These things were everywhere two generations ago, now the world has gotten better. It can continue to get better by growing past religion into reality.

Sounding as rabid as many religious people.

Notice I'm not nailing anything to anybody's church door, either. I'm posting on a board where differing opinions are encouraged and valued.

but I think most will tell you that they honestly believe religion to be overall a force that is harmful to society.

I can't and won't speak for the others beyond that; but, I, myself, try and take a more concillitory view. To me, I will commend a religious person when they use their religion as a force for good (getting people to help the poor) and condemn them when when they use it as a shield to hurt people (the religious right and their anti-gay bigotry). Eitherway, I don't criticize the person themselves for being religious in and of itself.

That said, I don't think the religions themselves, as opposed to their followers, are above criticism. I feel that if they highlight something bad they deserve to be called out on it. Lets take the most extreme example, ancient religions that advocated human sacrifice. I think any religion/sect that promote this view should be criticized don't you?

To me, not speaking out against a religion/sect/etc that promoted something like would be bad for society, put innocent people at risk, and would be immoral.

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I find people who cling to the meandering attempts of iron-age peasants to describe the physical world to be hilarious. We live in a in a world where we actually have many real answers.

When those people organize and try to force an agenda they perceive to be "God" inspired, they quit being laughable and become dangerous.

Believe whatever you want. I don't care.

Make no mistake, when people make policies based on myth, when they persecute others based on myth, when people block scientific advancement based on myth, when people tell me I should die based on myth, deserve to suffer for eternity based on myth, (or make me want to die while I suffer for what seems like an eternity of proselytizing based on myth) I get to respond.

I don't consider myself to be religious. Just a believer.

intensity of my spirit and all that goes with it. I find it easier without the holds of a dogma

As billboard campaigns go, this one is pretty good.

I think having religion is very important, especially teach it own children since childhood

never set foot in a church. My parents did. Almost anyway. We went to church on occasion. Christmas usually.

A lack of religion is normal for me because I was educated in the scientific tradition. The norms of science are the norms I internalized, naturalized, and through which I construct my perception of reality. That tradition includes these norms: there is only one reality, there is only one kind of thing--natural and not super-natural--in the universe, all problems have unitary solutions (no contradicting terms), and the nature of evidence is performative rather than discursive or emotional. That is it isn't enough to be logical or to feel that one knows, ideas must be tested.

Other perspectives exist, however, and for most of human history, they were all we had.