Godless ads to appear

You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars.

Ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday.

In lifting lyrics from "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," the Washington-based group is wading into what has become a perennial debate over commercialism, religion in the public square and the meaning of Christmas.

"We are trying to reach our audience, and sometimes in order to reach an audience, everybody has to hear you," said Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group. "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion."


I almost had to laugh at this. I wonder why this holiday is associated with religion??? I guess humanist don't make good friends because I never have to feel lonely. Not only do I have Jesus in my life I have lots of friends that I can call and talk to. I talked to Gail F. yesterday for a long time and I had only talked to her once for a few minutes since 1997. It was just a picking up where we left off and a great conversation about our wonderful parents!