A Pew Forum on Religion and American Life reveals that 41% of the general voting population would not vote for a proclaimed Atheist. It's going to a take public awareness campaign such as this to start down the long path of removing religion from politics.

Stanford and his group of hypocrites need to be stoppped.

Consider that during a time of worldwide recession atheists are collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations not in order to actually help anyone in real need but in order to attempt to demonstrate just how clever they think themselves to be—need anymore be said?

Huh?

Which organization is receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in donation?

If such an atheist organization exists, they certainly aren't using the money to demonstrate their cleverness but to remove the intellectual, emotional and moral poison that is religion from politics and from peoples' lives.

Love it, and love the intelligent responses above!

Heaven is a ballroom

With high celings

Filled with white balloons

And smoke machines

"Heaven is a place...where nothing ever happens."

I saw a bus with this ad on the side this morning. Loved it!! It's nice, simple, to the point. I hope it brings in more members to the organization and that it encourages more atheists to speak up about what they profess.

(dork alert) But doesn't the fact that "moral" and "ethical" are synonymous, thereby creating a redundancy, take away from your enjoyment of the ad? It does me. Okay, I'll go away now.

Morals and ethics are not necessarily synonymous. Morals define personal character and actions, while ethics are a set of standards of behavior used among a group of people. A person's morals will stay the same despite being subjected to different ethics, like societal, familial, or commercial ethics. I suppose a person's morals could be defined as the ethics of a "group of one."

GRAMMAR NAZI ALERT

Yes, please go away - only a nerdy proofreader or English teacher would notice something so petty!

As a fairly religious (though cynical) person myself, I've always argued that "moral" Athiests were actually better people that moral religious, since they don't expect any ultimate reward or approval. For this reason, they'll go to heaven, whether they want to or not.

How does a sunset prove there's a heaven? All it proves is that orbital and light wave physics work.

I believe what it proves is that "heaven" does not need to be something wished for in an afterlife, but experienced in the here and now. The definition of what is heaven is part of the debate between believers and nonbelievers. Fundamentalist believers would most likely say "orbital and light wave physics" are proof of the existence of an Almighty who created those forces of physics. I say: if the Universe is all-inclusive, it couldn't have been created by a deity who somehow stood outside of it and waved his magic wand (or whatever) and willed it into being. If no deity, then no heaven to aspire to in an "afterlife". So, heaven exists, not in some other place, but here along the Hudson River, the Appalachian Trail, the Grand Canyon, in the Alps or wherever you find it.

What he means is that beautiful things give him existential crisis.

I appreciate you seeing that side of it, FJF, but we will not go to heaven because there is no heaven.

The governor of South Carolina knows heaven is here on earth.

If you can say there is no heaven then you have obviously never seen a sunset over the Hudson River!

Who does an Atheist thank at awards shows, sports events, etc?

:/

@Wza His noodly appendage, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, of course!

their parents.