“Godless” Billboard Goes Up In Austin
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A prominent billboard went up Monday (June 28, 2010) in Austin, Texas, on the east side of I-35, north of Grand Avenue Parkway, facing north.
It was placed by the Austin Coalition of Reason (Austin CoR), with $7,344 in funding from the United Coalition of Reason (United CoR), the 14′ x 48′ billboard features the words “Don’t Believe in God? Join the Club” superimposed over the image of a bright sunrise. This billboard also marks the public launch of Austin CoR, which is made up of six area groups that welcome nontheistic (atheist and agnostic) individuals.
The Austin billboard is part of a national effort. Already this year there have been similar billboards, or bus ads, in Des Moines, Detroit, Fayetteville (Arkansas), New Orleans, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Tucson, Sacramento and Seattle. Last year, there were United CoR-sponsored billboard, bus, and subway ads in 20 cities, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Tulsa, Phoenix and San Diego.
For a hi-res images of the billboard CLICK HERE, or for a hi-res image of the image used CLICK HERE. A link to a 700MB hi-res video of the billboard advertisement going up is HERE, a smaller streaming one will be up later tonight.
Source: Austin Coalition of Reason Press Release
Tip of the hat to Chuck E. Jesus
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You know I find it hard to believe that people have a problem with this. If you are comfortable with your faith or “religion” which the sole premiss is love mr. and mrs. Christian. Then why don’t you follow your own Golden Rule. Futhermore, If you got back all the hate you put out WOW that would really hurt. Now I am not talking about the devout christians that are not slandering these folks for exercising thier 1st ammendment rights. I am talking of the extremists that are themselves agnostic. For those of you I am addressing that means without knowledge. You know I think there should have been ammendments made to the
10 Commandments for folks like you like
11.thou shalt not hate
12.thou shalt not vandalize
13.thou shalt not post stupid remarks
slandering others free will.
So I say Good for you COR Put one here in Oklahoma City.
Blessed Be.
Merry Meet, Richard.
merry meet to you as well.
Hello from Australia –
I found this site from Stumbleupon –
It is so good that Atheists, and especially Americans – are uniting – if Christians kept out of everybody’s face – there would have been no need for websites like this.
In Australia we did, maybe only for a short time – an Atheist female Prime Minister. Wehave just had a Vote – and we don’t know who is going to be the Prime Minister yet.
Christians have attacked her so viciously – quite unbelievable – the opposition leader is a misogynist Catholic. The Catholic church is quite strong in Australia, and are trying to stop a course in secular schools that hopefully will be known as Ethics and Morals – we have had pedophile priests here as well as around the world – and they think they are the only ones to have ethics and morals. – I would pit my morals and ethics against christians any day.
Love your site – it looks fabulous and is really easy to get around – Congratulations – the world is looking at America – so the more that Atheists unite – the better for humanity.
That’s pretty cool…. EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THEIR PUBLIC VOICE! Rahr! for the crew in TX. Pretty cheeky of ’em considering the countryside… whoa.
COR Blimey! (as the Cockneys are apt to say)
sorry…I’ll get me coat…
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Any readers live in Austin? It would be interesting to see a sampling of outraged and ungrammatical letters to the local papers.
No doubt there will be a flurry of them Infidel, although I suspect Christian vandals will paint out the “don’t” before the week is done.
So god’s a top, huh.
The ones I helped fund in the Bay Area of California, California were vandalized the first weekend, so that will happen there too. There was somewhere else recently had one that said One Nation, Indivisible.. and someone went and put Under God with an arrow where they thought it should be.
Austin is like an oasis of cool water in a desert of ignorance.
Even their city slogan..”Keep Austin weird” rocks!
“an oasis of cool water in a desert of ignorance”
Come on.
You’re talking about a state with a population around 25 million people. Of the 10 largest cities in the US, 3 are in Texas.
Sure there are plenty of uneducated, bigoted, rednecks in Texas, but this is a big, big place. Calling the whole state a “desert of ignorance” tells me you just choose to believe what other uninformed people like to spout.
I was born in San Antonio and have lived in Austin and now Dallas. (And out of the state as well.) I don’t have an accent. I never say y’all or ain’t. I didn’t marry my cousin or my daddy. I’ve never owned a pair of Wrangler jeans, a giant belt buckle, a rebel flag, a truck, a gun, a cow, a horse, or an oil well. And I’m not any kind of oddity here in Texas.
I’m also an atheist. And believe me. There are plenty of us around.
(Oh, and I could be wrong, but I never heard anything at all about the dfwcor.org “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.” billboards being vandalized here.)
Countdown to vandalism – 3…2…1…
I never thought of that. You are right John. Glad you stopped by. Hope you come back.
Hard to believe that Austin is in Texas.
Good point!!!
I doubt we will ever see any of these in Georgia.