Excerpt from “FFRF’s July 4 ad counters Hobby Lobby disinformation,” 7/1/13.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is running a full-page ad celebrating “our GODLESS Constitution” in a number of U.S. dailies on July 4. FFRF, a state/church watchdog based in Madison, Wis., serves as the nation’s largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics).
The ad is a direct response to a series of July 4 ads sponsored annually by Hobby Lobby since 2008, which shamelessly promote the myth that the United States was founded on God and Christianity. The large craft store chain’s ads of disinformation appear ti run in hundreds of dailies. Although FFRF can’t compete with Hobby Lobby by running ads in virtually every daily, it is undertaking the single most expensive ad campaign in its history to counter the Religious Right message.
The ads quote U.S. Founders and Framers on their strong views against religion in government, and often critical views on religion in general. The ad features two revolutionaries and Deists, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, and the first four presidents: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
The ad documents that not only is the U.S. Constitution godless, but that there was no prayer during the Constitutional Convention, and that the Constitution’s primary architect, Madison, came to oppose government days of prayer, congressional chaplaincies and even “three pence” of tax dollars used in support of religion. The ad includes a website link that not only documents the quotations, but takes the reader to the original script in most cases!
Click here to continue reading and to view the full-sized ad.
TheBentAngle 
July 5, 2013 at 4:56 pm |
The unfortunate thing about the current crop of religionists, like Mr Hobbylobby and the “Phortnight phor phreedom” bishops, is that they have forced me to sympathize and side with the atheists!
July 5, 2013 at 9:16 pm |
Hi TJ. You may have caught my earlier re-post of a “Religion Dispatches” article by David Bushee, “Christians vs. Gays: The Damage Done.” If not, here’s the link: https://thebentangle.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/christians-vs-gays-the-damage-done/
It contains a link to the full article.
October 20, 2015 at 12:39 am |
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