Are You a One-Person Atheist Billboard?

anybody know where I can buy some(preferably places in store and not online. I dislike purchasing clothing online. never know how it will fit/feel)

I have several Atheist related t-shirts that I wear on a regular basis. Being self-employed, I have no dress restrictions.
Mostly, people chuckle when they read them. I’ve only gotten two negative responses. One from an older lady in an elevator who got very angry when she saw my Bad Religion concert t, and one from my very Catholic cousin to a shirt that stated “God watches you poop.” I wore it to a family function only because he always wears WWJD t-shirts.

I probably wouldn’t wear an atheist shirt unless it was funny. I love funny shirts. I’d wear one like you quoted about dinosaurs.

I had a sticker that said Atheist on the back of my old Jeep for years. The only comment I got was when a guy pulled up next to me at a traffic light and seemed overjoyed that I had it. He said I had “balls of steel” for driving around with it in Georgia. I never got any bad comments about it, though one time I looked in my rear view miror and saw a van load of nuns. I wonder what they were thinking.

I don’t own any myself simply because I am not the kind to wear such casual attire in public.

However, while out at the bars a couple of nights ago, I came across a guy with the “There’s probably no god, stop worrying and enjoy your life” shirt, same font and colours as the bus add.

I commented on it and he asked if I was gonna punch him, but I told him I knew all about it and it was the most awesome shirt ever.
Think I made a friend that night!

Although the shirt wasn’t obvious unless you were already talking to him, up close.

He said he had another one called “Jesus is cumming, will you swallow?”…I told him he’d probably get punched for that one.

(Considering out setting – late at night, many young adults, alcohol, a city dominated by uni students at night)

and I’ve met another man with the “chain of evolution picture” from chimp to man…ending with the man demanded the others stop following.

honestly, those are the only times I have come across such shirts. pity.

There’s one from the Onion store that says “Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus?” but I’m not ballsy enough to wear it.

Here it is if anyone wants it
https://store.theonion.com/are-your-cats-old-enough-to-learn-about-jesus-p-193.html

I wear the Friendly Atheist bracelet you gave me everyday, although rarely does anyone read it. When people have asked me what it says I’ve generally got a lot of really positive responses and apart of me wishes I had something like a t-shirt that more people could readily see because of that.

I think wearing an atheist t-shirt is pretty much like wearing something that denotes your religion. And that’s a Good Thing.

A couple of years ago, I mentioned to a student (I’m a math tutor) that I was an atheist. He said, and I quote, “Wow! I never met an atheist before.” When I told him that at least ten percent of the population was atheist, and that many were afraid to say so, we had quite a discussion.

We really need to come out of the closet. If the people you respect are atheists, you’re more likely to question your beliefs. And you won’t know they’re atheists unless they are forthcoming. A t-shirt is a good way to do that.

A search for “atheist” t-shirts on Zazzle.com returned over 3,500 results. A search across all products returned 7,398. I am happy to see so many people taking advantage of these print on demand sites to make custom atheist themed stuff.

I honestly don’t have an atheist t-shirt which is odd considering my large t-shirt collection. I do have a Discordian shirt (Sweet merciful fuck, pterodactyls!) and a Subgenius shirt (“Genius by birth, Slacker by choice”) that I ironically got at Wal-Mart. I’ve never got any comments about them, sadly.

I really really want one of the Teach the Controversy that Wear Science has: http://controversy.wearscience.com I guess I should ask for one for Father’s Day.

The shirt I wear the most says “Viva La Evolución” under a chimpanzee wearing a beret, ala Che Guevara. All feedback so far has been positive unlike some frowns directed my way when I wear my Darwin fish shirt.

Most of my attempt-at-humor shirts are science (astro/evo/chem/phys) or tech related, but I also wear some Landover Baptist shirts. One of the latter ones (that just says “Godless”) has pissed off at least one drunken Christian at a bar — an odd, hour-long encounter that would’ve been worthy of a blog post, had any of us been bloggers. I’ve another shirt that says “Get your ass to church”, but that’s only worn when I’m with a group of people (safety in numbers, that is).

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@PaulJ,
D*C is a great place to observe witty shirts in their natural element, especially at the science & skeptics tracks.

My wife and I have two shirts we wear on a regular basis.

We bought them from the Freedom from Religion Foundation of which we are members.

One reads, “Freedom from Religion” while the other is “Friendly Neighborhood Athiest.”

People will often approach us and quietly ask where we got the shirts. The only negative reaction I’ve received is from a few fundie neighbors who tried to convince me I’m not really an athiest. These are YECs who went to far as to show up at my front door with a copy of Ray Comfort’s book, “God doesn’t believe in Athiests.” I agreed to read it if, and only if, they would agree to read “Letter to a Christian Nation.” We swapped books. I read theirs, but to this date I have no idea if they read mine. (I did invite them to come over for a discussion of the two books when they were finished with “Letter” and I suspect they are avoiding having to do that.)

Religion’s pervasive penetration of all realms of society is due, in part, to a combination of childhood indoctrination AND ongoing marketing thru the display of religious symbology which reassures members of the various groups that they have made the right “choice.” (Even though we all know that in most cases there never was a real “choice” made.)

If you think “flying the colors” of being an athiest is the same as a religious person wearing a cross, you are right. That’s why you should do it.

Then, again, I’m an old fart. One of the advantages of growing older is you don’t have to put up with all the crap you have to deal with when you’re young. I’m PROUD to have thrown off the shackles of myth and supersition.

The next shirt I’m going to buy will have a picture of the collapsing WTC and the text will read:

Faith – It can’t move mountains but it sure made a mess of these buildings.

This is the one I wear. Many favorable comments.

Hmm, well…

I think most “statement” shirts look sloppy – in terms of attraction, a centered sentence thrown on an ill-fitted tee would inspire little more than a raised eyebrow, if that.

…or so says my inner fashionista who has OBVIOUSLY watched way too much What Not to Wear.

In actuality, my eyes laser in on the word “vegan” printed anywhere. Just today, walking across a busy Wicker Park intersection, I saw a bicyclist out of the corner of my eye zooming past with a Food Fight (vegan grocery store) sticker on his helmet. It was something I immediately recognized and identified with and, in a split second, I assumed that I would get along with the rider because of it.

This flash judgment on my part seems to show that an easily identifiable logo will go far to create a sense of common purpose and community… even amongst judgmental assholes like me. And some of the aforementioned shirts – the Charles Darwin and “Science!” ones in particular – are pretty attractive design-wise.

I would imagine that a t-shirt would be less effective at informing believers but, again, I think simply identifying similarly minded folk in a (statistically-speaking) theistic crowd is heartening.

@Jeff Purser: Idea shamelessly stolen and posterised. *grin*

Faith

I obtain nearly all of my clothing used, and I’ve become accustomed to the low costs. So the prices of new t-shirts with messages make my skin crawl. (This means that if I have the money for something atheism related, it will get donated or spent on a book.) I have one t-shirt I got from donating to a local non-profit radio station. Other than that – I have never owned clothing that has on it any written message I agree with.

@Solitas – Thank You!
I just may pay to have that baby printed up.

I wear an atheistbus.ca sweater that says “THERE’S PROBABLY NO GOD, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” I get looks everywhere I go, but I’ve only ever had two comments and they were both positive.

I was a little nervous about wearing it at first, but now it’s my favourite piece of clothing and I wear it at every opportunity!

I live in rather small tourist town in south, central Ontario, in Canada and if I wore a t-shirt that said, “I’m an atheist”, I can almost guaranteed verbal abuse because there are SO many churches, some of which are evangelical fundamentalists. The jehovah’s witnesses because of THEIR beliefs, walk around the “two-by-two’s” I call them, sometimes a child is with one of the adults and the last time two women appeared at my door, she told me who they were and I said, “You’re here to convert and you’re not “preaching to the choir”.
And this will continue until whenever.
To be openly lesbian/gay or feminist….same thing. In a cosmopolitan city like the city two hour’s south of us, almost anything goes. It just doesn’t matter…here in the Muskoka region, it does. I haven’t got the emotional energy to combat the potential for verbal bashing or even the rare possibility of being attacked, that’s how ANGRY the locals who are or pretend to be…christian, would react.

The Philadelphia Reason & Religion examiner wore several atheist t-shirts through a week-long drive down South, and seemed surprised by the non-response his shirts got him.

He blogged about it and got jumped on by hundreds of commenters. Not because of his shirts, but because his stated intent made him sound like an arrogant prick.

I think you didn’t hear what she said immediately after. “For crying out loud… Comic Sans!!!”

i keed, i keed.

If I’m not in uniform, I am wearing an atheist shirt. If you want to put a stop to xtians wearing crosses, wear a cross with a red circle and line through it, it will draw a complaint (or many) and you can argue that it is only an expression of your belief and if you can’t wear it, then crosses should also be prohibited

xtains want special rights, not equal rights

I don’t differentiate between a woman or man wearing a “t” necklace around their throat proclaiming, quietly, their beliefs and….wearing an atheist-type necklace showing my non-beliefs. I thought North America was a democracy. Canada is more so, I believe than the U.S. is although the Humanist Network News is from Albany, N.Y. Why should christians have the monopoly on wearing ‘crosses’ around their necks to show they’re christians any more than atheists IF there was available atheist jewellry. Personally, I’d like to find an apatheist necklace, a person who doesn’t care about the ‘god’ thing. Even though in Canada, we have the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the freedom of religion on which both Canada AND the U.S. was founded, DOESN’T mean that every single North America teenager or adult IS a christian. There are far more atheists, even though they’re a large minority who face verbal persecution for NOT believing in a so-called, ‘higher power’.

Hi Hemant Mehta,
I’m an atheist but “in the closet” so to speak. Where I live in central Ontario, Canada, there’s a questionnnaire asking about what the residents of cottage country think about their community and one of the categories is “Family Values”. It doesn’t say traditonal family values, simply Family Values. That’s open to interpretation.
If I wore a shirt that said, “I’m an atheist” I KNOW I’d be hassled, either verbally or….even physically threatened.
Atheism, like being gay or feminist, is not considered a “family value” in the small town, 50,000 year round.
Being socially and….morally non-conformist where I live….is difficult and a professional person I see, she’s also a feminist and she has to endure traditional female language but she has a like-thinking support circle.