Nashville Gets Atheist Billboard

One of the things that Christians living in the American bible belt often fail to appreciate is just how alienated we atheists can feel among them. Here in Mississippi, it seems that there is a church on every corner, and yet, it can be a challenge to find even one other atheist with whom to converse. This is why blogs like this and atheist meetup groups are needed - to help those of us living here to realize that we are not alone.

On November 1, 2009, Nashville, TN, is scheduled to get a billboard just like this one:


Secular Life is the group sponsoring the billboard. In recent correspondence with Hemant (Friendly Atheist), the group's founder had this to say:

…hopefully it will bring awareness that there are positive communities who are non-religious doing good in the community. Our primary objective is to bring together as many like minded non-religious people as possible, spending less time on divisive labels and rather concentrating on the broadly shared characteristic of being non-religious and thus Secular.

This is exactly the sort of thing needed in every community here in the South. A simple reminder that we are not alone goes a long way indeed.

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