Atheist Bus Ads and Billboards: A Compilation

Thanks for this. I have found all of these bus ads and billboards very inspiring. To see them all together really gives a good indication of the momentum this type of advertising has gotten.

The truth hurts sometimes 🙂
Now we need these signs on every street and in every school !

I posted this link in another topic before Hemant posted this compilation of atheist ads. The link is more relevant here…

POLL regarding Cincinnati’s atheist billboard…

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20091110/NEWS01/911110333/

I’m so happy we finally have gotten such exposure with these. I’m considering a similar internet billboard campaign. I’ll let you know if I go through.

You forgot Montreal, Quebec: http://assohum.org/

I think I sent you the link to this at the time it was placed as well.

For the most part I think the ads are too passive. If there is any claim or positive assertion coming from atheists, I think it could be best summarized as: All Gods Are Imaginary. I’d like to see that on a billboard. It’s confrontational but I think we need to be more aggressive. People are attracted to controversial issues, and I think it would be more effective to send a challenging message to religious people rather than those who are already agnostic or atheists.

If we can attract religious people to explore our websites and organizations through conspicuous and challenging messages, they just might find that what we are saying makes sense. Ultimately our goal is to make all religious people understand that religion is primitive superstitious bullshit, so we need to make more of an effort to reach out and challenge religious people and loudly, publicly, refute their absurd ideology with logic and reason.

Religion is the worst thing that humans have ever done to themselves, and if we expect to eradicate it then we’re going to have to be more proactive.

Simply amazing! Great post! If only in my goddamn country (Romania) they would do this. Highly unlikely, but worth the shot!

I agree that us atheist have to be more proactive, even if it means getting bashed.

Going up soon on buses in Portland, Oregon too!

chutz link works for me. The link is to
“Association Humaniste du Québec (AHQ)”. There’s a photo of a bus with “DIEU N’EXISTE PROBABLEMENT PAS”

In The Netherlands, there was one pretty big billboard next to a highway, close to Amsterdam Airport, along with smaller ones in selected cities.

Here’s a link to a picture on the website of a very Reformed Daily newspaper:

http://www.refdag.nl/media/foto/2009/76151-a.jpg

What an impressive collection! I went this morning to see the Chicago COR sign and get a picture before it gets taken down. It was like a godless pilgrimage.
I just started a Flickr group that people can add photos of atheist billboards to: http://www.flickr.com/groups/atheistbillboards/
When I get a chance, I’ll start hunting through Flickr and inviting people to add to it, but of course people can join any time!

In Italy atheist slogan was censored. Only published a photo of the bus atheist. Ciao!

Naturally, deists are outraged at these signs. Yet, for them to engage in any form of brainwashing of children and adults is not only OK, it is “for the right cause”. So that makes lies, misquotes, and distortions “a blow for righteousness.”

Freedom of speech and thought is the mortal enemy of all religions. That’s why they all work very hard to repress them.

There isn’t this picture… see 🙂 http://neroassenso.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/%E2%80%9Cpreferisco-ragionare-anziche-credere-ecco-perche-sono-ateo%E2%80%9D/

a Buddhist here. (not a very good one)

I really enjoyed this post. I feel there needs to be more billboards like this.

I never met an Atheist that I did not like.

I don’t know, sure they are good points, but I don’t think they are likely to do anything other than convince a slim minority, and anger a lot of christians. I think the way to improve our national image would be to post good messages that people can all agree on, and then just say ‘sponsored by [insert atheist organization here]’, here are some I think would be nice:
“Answer your children’s questions, and they will trust you. Lie to them, and they will never trust you”
“Answer your children’s questions, and they won’t look for the answers in the wrong places”
“spend time with your family, you won’t regret it”
“Care about the future, you or your children will have to live through it”
“Help others around you, and they will return the favor, even if only with love”
“Work hard at everything you do in life, and Life will repay you”

That kind of thing would really make a lot of christians re-evaluate their hate of us, and really make people question if we really are so bad. And right now, I think that is probably the most important thing for us to do is improve our public image. Maybe if we weren’t hated so much, people would listen to us more often, then the other billboards actually begin to have good effects. But right now, the hate of atheists makes us not even a viable option for those who might be questioning their faith and want a way out. Lets become a viable option. Plus, children brought up that its ok to ask questions end up atheists more likely than those that don’t.

I mean think about it, the more questionable christian groups use ads like this all the time to help reverse their image. Mormons especially have to do a ton of this kind of advertising. I think it would help us a ton, as oppossed to making all of us feel better, and further alienating the hordes of christian masses.