By ED PILKINGTON - GUARDIAN.CO.UK
Added: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UTC

Thanks to Crapsquire for the link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/17/american-atheists-nationwide-campaign


In a country where more than eight in 10 people regard themselves as religious, it takes more than a little guts to preach about a world without God. But that's the message that is creeping across America, spreading ripples of dissent in its wake.

From Tampa in Florida, to Cincinnati, Ohio, and all the way across to Sacramento in California, billboards have been cropping up with messages that run across the grain of America's normally devout discourse. "Don't believe in God? You're not alone!" were the first posters to be put up, in Arizona, Colorado, Texas and parts of the north-east. "Being a good person doesn't require God," read another.

The billboards are the work of a national group of atheists – or nontheists, as they call themselves – called United Coalition of Reason that seeks to encourage nonbelievers throughout America by bringing them together.
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TAGGED: ATHEISM, CAMPAIGNS, RELIGION