Can’t wait to see the billboards for Ramadan.
Via WBTV:
If you haven’t seen them yet, you probably soon will.
American Atheists has unveiled its holiday billboards, including 2 in the Shreveport area.
They encourage people to “Skip church for a merrier Christmas.”
The group is trying to stir the pot. “And part of stirring the pot is getting that conversation going,” explained Nick Fish, American Atheists’ national program director.
“There are atheists in the community, there are people who don’t believe in God.”
One of the billboards parodies President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign slogan.
“Make Christmas Great Again. … skip church.”
“You don’t have to be religious, you don’t have to believe in God to be a good person,” Fish said. “And we want to use humor, we want to use a little bit of people driving by these billboards and say, ‘Wait, what did that just say?,”
American Atheists has its holiday messages on display from Louisiana, to Colorado, even down in Georgia.
“We celebrate Christmas pretty much the same way everyone else does,” Fish said. “We have a tree. We give gifts. We have big meal. We hang out with the people that we love.
“Those things have nothing to do with religion. Christianity and religion do not have a monopoly on having a great meal and spending time with people you love,” he explained.