THE Central Arkansas Transit Authority and its advertising agency have been served with a lawsuit after they demanded an outrageous amount of money to allow a local group of atheists to run an ad campaign on a fleet of 18 buses. The transit agency’s ad firm – On The Move Advertising – required the group [...]
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AN idiotic decision by companies owning advertising space in railway stations to ban British Humanist Association census campaign posters has caused puzzlement and outrage among secularists. The posters, designed to encourage non-religious people to tick the “None” box when asked “What is your religion?” had the slogan: If you’re not religious, for God’s sake say [...]
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RESIDENTS in three major US cities are being reminded that it is perfectly possible to live a fulfilling life without God. The message is hardly new. Rationalists, skeptics and philosophers have been saying this for centuries. But only in the last decade or so has the idea taken hold in a big way, and it [...]
Religious coverage is seen as a “rather tiresome obligation” by “secular and sceptical” BBC television staff, Radio 4′s Roger Bolton said. Bolton, according to the BBC today, called for the appointment of a BBC religion editor to improve coverage of faith matters. He was speaking at the Sandford St Martin Trust awards for religious programmes, [...]
ATHEIST Bus Campaign posters were stripped off vehicles operated by the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority shortly after they were sponsored by Iowa Atheists & Freethinkers. The reason given for their removal was the use of the word “God”. Elizabeth Prusetti, chief development officer for the bus agency, said: We have never allowed that [...]
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THE threat of a lawsuit has changed minds over at Bloomington Transit, Indiana. The bus company was threatened with legal action after refusing to carry an ad – You Can be Good Without God – created by local atheists, but capitulated days before a preliminary injunction hearing was scheduled in the US District Court, in [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
