Just in time for the holiday season, Americans are about to be hit with a spate of advertisements promoting the joy and wisdom of atheism.If you don't believe in anything aren't you already part of their group?
Four separate and competing national organizations representing various streams of atheists, humanists and freethinkers will soon be spreading their gospel through advertisements on billboards, buses and trains, and in newspapers and magazines.
The latest, announced on Tuesday in Washington, is the first to include spots on television and cable. This campaign juxtaposes particularly primitive — even barbaric — passages from the Bible and the Koran with quotations from nonbelievers and humanists like Albert Einstein and Katharine Hepburn.
The godless groups say they are mounting this surge because they are aware that they have a large, untapped army of potential troops. The percentage of American adults who say they have no religion has doubled in the last two decades, to 15 percent, according to the American Religious Identification Survey, conducted by researchers at Trinity College in Hartford and released in 2008. But the ranks of the various atheist organizations number only in the tens of thousands.
That is one reason for the multiple campaigns: the groups are competing with one another to gain market share, said Mark Silk, founding director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, which is also at Trinity College.
“There’s a competitive environment for ‘no religion,’ and they’re grabbing for all the constituents they can get,” Mr. Silk said.
Well, not if you're not paying dues to their organizations. THAT they believe in.
Atheists are starting to become their own cult.
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There are book clubs, golf clubs... Why not Atheist clubs?
As an atheist, I would love to join a group and/or organization where I can comfortably speak freely.
There are too many groups out there that hold religious individuals. Within such groups, I could quickly be placed in the hot seat should I state my dis-belief in their god(s).
These atheist groups can also educate the public on what atheism actually means. Which is absolutely vital. I can't state how many times I need to adjust ones understanding of the term.
I think the analysis on this is highly mistaken. I keep a blog and a YouTube channel dedicated to atheism, not because I want money, in fact it costs me money, but because I was an atheist that had no outlet to share my thoughts. I was frustrated that I had been misled all my life, but nobody I knew wanted to hear it. I wanted to make sure that people like me realized that there actually are other people like me, and they do have an outlet.
This world is way too cynical. Not everything has to do with money, and the fact that someone would make such an allegation about an atheist group that you would never find making similar comments about a Christian group is shameful.
Professing an atheistic view will not change God's promise - EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW . . . . some day the day will come that a person will line up with God, or will be destroyed in the lake of fire. A persons belief will not change God's promise now or in the future.
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