Splat

THINK

or, if it weren't too convoluted:

THINK FREELY AND OFTEN

edoggsmooth

Appraise the Lord! Tax the Church

(stole that from a newsletter)

-ed

MadMordigan

For a good time, call MadMordigan 604-597-3096.

Bluenose

For a better life log on:
The ATHEIST web.

OR [thanks Mad Kally]

God is Santa Claus for adults.

Other great short quotes, even shorter than sound bites are what will be remembered longest. My previous post "Curb your doGma" is what I remember best from the Papal visit to California in Sept 1987. IIRC they were carried by Amer. Atheists but it's those 3 little words that I'll never forget.

capsaicin67

Does anyone know what AA declares the purpose of this March to be yet------to flip-off the mainstream/establishment, to convert undecideds to atheism and persuade them of it's superior merits over others' beliefs, or to promote understanding, acceptance and outreach through better communication......? Or a mishmash of all the above/anything goes?

I think that deciding the goal we are trying to reach [this round in particular! the strategy does not have to be the same for every round....] through our communication will guide it best.

Kevin Dorner

From <a href="http://godlessamericans.org/faqs.shtml" target="_blank">here.</a>

Statement of priniciples is <a href="http://godlessamericans.org/statement.shtml" target="_blank">here.</a>

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Polar Bear

My favorite, when trying to make a friendly point that has a chance of making mainstream media, is something like:

DEMOCRACY NOT THEOCRACY

When I'm just trying to piss people off, I make big signs that say

BRING BACK THE LIONS

4th Generation Atheist

(Waaaah! I'll be 50! <img src="graemlins/boohoo.gif" border="0" alt="[Boo Hoo]" /> )

Anycase, I favor the inclusive signs/banners/mottoes over the anti-theist ones. There's a time and place for every slogan, and a march that we hope will be large, well-received if possible, and attended by sympathetic individual theists and non-endorsing organisations is a place for the inclusive type. I like "One Nation Indivisible", or perhaps even just "One Nation", for these purposes, or perhaps something like "Of Any Faith...Or Of None", "E Pluribus Unum" (to use our original national motto), and patriotically inclusive statements along this line. The best thing to come of this march would be a new unity among freethinking and religiously neutral Americans, a national event honoring our common heritage across lines of fatih/faithlessness. The worst would be another devisive, atheists-against-the-world thing that sets us firmly outside the mainstream two days before a strategically---possibly historically---important election. Remember we need numbers supporting us, and we don't have a majority just counting other freethinkers.

PJPSYCO

Well, if your gonna be so 50, that would make you 36, and eligable to run for president in the next election. So, no more waaaah. Run for pesident!

SLD

How about a few quotes from the founders or other great Americans:

the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his Religion according to the dictates of conscience – Thomas Jefferson

that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in nowise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities. – James Madison

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson

"No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority." --Thomas Jefferson

But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson:

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."--Benjamin Franklin, _Poor_Richard_, 1758

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."--Benjamin Franklin, _Poor_Richard_, 1758

Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind faith." -- Thomas Jefferson

religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."--James Madison

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."--Thomas Paine

My own mind is my own church. – Thomas Paine

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy."--George Washington

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity in exclusion of all other religions may establish, with the same ease, any particular sect of Christians in exclusion to all other sects? – James Madison

I do not believe in a personal God -Albert Einstein

Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. James Madison

"I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice."
..........John F. Kennedy

"If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go." Mark Twain