{"id":4522,"date":"2010-06-15T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/atheist-bus-ads-pop-up-in-chicago.html"},"modified":"2010-06-15T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T16:04:58","slug":"atheist-bus-ads-pop-up-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/atheist-bus-ads-pop-up-in-chicago.html","title":{"rendered":"Atheist bus ads pop up in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/ffrf_external_bus_ad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ffrf_external_bus_ad.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/ffrf_external_bus_ad-thumb-400x239-15075.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0pt auto 20px\" height=\"239\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe bus ads from the Freedom From Religion Foundation that have cropped up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/australiaandthepacific\/australia\/4159715\/Atheist-bus-Sleep-in-on-Sunday-morning-adverts-banned.html\">in Europe<\/a> are now appearing <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/religion_theseeker\/2010\/06\/bus-ad-campaign-urges-riders-to-skip-church-sleep-in.html\">in Chicago<\/a>, encouraging people not to go to church: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Freedom From Religion Foundation plastered more signs on 75 Chicago buses this week encouraging Chicagoans to skip church and sleep in on Sundays. But that&#8217;s just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Riders also will see 200 interior bus signs with quotations from five famous freethinkers or skeptics, including author Mark Twain, attorney Clarence Darrow, poets Carl Sandburg and Emily Dickinson; and actresses Butterfly McQueen and Katharine Hepburn.The interior ads also will feature a provocative quote from Richard Dawkins, author of &#8220;The God Delusion: &#8220;The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, there are many reasons to reject religion, most of them intellectual,&#8221; said Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. &#8220;But face it &#8212; one of the immediate benefits of quitting church, besides getting a 10 percent raise because you can stop tithing, is getting to sleep in on Sundays! What the world really needs is a good night&#8217;s sleep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The foundation started advocating sleep after the slogan was deemed too controversial in Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> This is turning into a religion-bashing free-for-all.  Comments are now closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bus ads from the Freedom From Religion Foundation that have cropped up in Europe are now appearing in Chicago, encouraging people not to go to church: The Freedom From Religion Foundation plastered more signs on 75 Chicago buses this week encouraging Chicagoans to skip church and sleep in on Sundays. 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