The American Humanist Association’s No God?…No Problem! holiday ads
(graphic: The American Humanist Association)
The American Humanist Association has announced its five-city holiday ad campaign:
(Washington, D.C., November 23, 2009) Celebrating a new kind of holiday tradition, the American Humanist Association has launched a new advertising campaign similar to the one that ran in the nation’s capital last year, which made headlines around the globe. Only this year, instead of the campaign focusing on a single location, ads will be blazoned across transit systems in five cities–including Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco–marking the first-ever nation-wide humanist holiday advertising campaign.
“No God?…No Problem!” proclaim the ads, featuring an image of several smiling, Santa hat-clad individuals. The ads will kick off in Washington, D.C. in time for Thanksgiving weekend, running inside 200 buses, fifty rail cars and on the side or tail of twenty buses. The campaign will continue with ads appearing on select buses in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco starting in early December.
Expect non-stop nuttery from the religious right in response to the holiday campaign. A number of non-faith billboards have recently been attacked, defaced and relocated due to death threats.
Check out the ads online.
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I’m sorry atheist feel left out of the holidays but they are religious holidays different faiths have and celebrate,without God their wouldn’t be any need for them,would their?
I can’t speak for all atheists, but I don’t feel left out in the least.
I love the holidays.
The Solstice was definitely a pagan celebration, so I guess you’re right about the religious aspect. You happen to choose to ignore the pagan gods and some us happen to choose to ignore your god. No problemma.
Have a Merry Christmas or Happy Chanukah or whatever you’re celebrating. I’ll be celebrating the simple joy of being with my family and friends, in the here and now.
From the American Humanist Association website:
“Humanism is a worldview which says that reason and science are the best ways to understand the world around us, and that dignity and compassion should be the basis for how you act toward someone else.”
What!?! You mean there are people who don’t have to be told to love thy neighbor?
How those secular humanists can sleep at night without the fear of eternal damnation I’ll never know.
There’s a lot to be said for being good for goodness’ sake! It’s revealing, in a sad little way, that conservative Christians find that notion so threatening.