"Atheist activists take billboard ad campaign to Bible Belt" by Bloomberg News | September 11, 2010
ATLANTA — Atheist activists from Wisconsin picked the biggest city in the Bible Belt for their largest advertising campaign, posting 50 billboards in metro Atlanta this week with messages including “Imagine No Religion.’’
***********
“It’s a strategic place to begin this conversation,’’ said Derrick Lemons, an instructor in the Religion Department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. “People in the area of the country especially will take offense to it and will start conversations which is, when it comes to marketing, a great thing to have.’’
Now I'm suspicious of the whole thing.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, the nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation’s co-president, called the campaign “an intellectually responsible alternative,’’ to religious programming in the media. “Religion is winning by default. Why are we letting them dominate everything? You can turn on the television or radio 24/7 and be preached at,’’ she said....
Related: Six Jewish Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Yeah, somehow that is never a problem though.
The foundation purchased the Atlanta ad space at a bargain price from CBS Outdoor, a division of CBS Corp., Gaylor said. She declined to disclose the price and a spokeswoman for CBS would not comment....
Oh, working WITH the MSM are they?
Also see: Around AmeriKa: The Devil Went Down to Georgia
