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1 Million Atheist Challenege

I don't know about you all but I am sick and tired of not being heard on a national level, state level, or county level. I am tired of seeing my tax dollars being used to try and convince us that were are the one's who are crazy simply because we don't believe in the invisible known as "GOD".

I propose 1 year from now we all gather together our forces and march on WASHINGTON D.C. as a show of strength, support, brotherhood, and unity here in America. I would like those out there to join, help plan, help organize, gather permits, you name it to descend on Washington DC to show that we are not the immoral evil people that we are constantly made out to be in the news media. I'm tired of feeling like I have to take a backseat in public life and the ridicule the comes along with being an Atheist. As well to show that yes, there are BLACK ATHEISTS out there in America that are not only proud, but willing to stand and be seen as an actual US CITIZEN. If anyone has any ideas on helping me put this thing together by all means let me know. Because I am serious and feel like this is something we can all do and need to get done.

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Permalink Reply by southern_samurai22 on March 14, 2009 at 5:36pm

hmmm where do we start

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Permalink Reply by Richard Haynes on March 14, 2009 at 9:00pm

It is a great idea Dre. I would love to get behind it.

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Permalink Reply by Ida on March 14, 2009 at 11:17pm

count me in. i just don't know how we will get this in action. i'm good at photoshop work, so i may design something. just give me the text needed/color scheme.

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Permalink Reply by Dre Smith on March 16, 2009 at 5:17pm

Something festive your the artist so I shall let you decide.

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Permalink Reply by Draccataura on March 15, 2009 at 5:44pm

Might I suggest we do it on National Day of Reason (first Thursday in May)?

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Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on March 15, 2009 at 8:32pm

You have to be very careful with this - any kind of shortcoming or failure will be pounced upon by the god freaks and you'll never hear the end of it.

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Permalink Reply by Dre Smith on March 16, 2009 at 5:15pm

I was thinking we could just start simply maybe with a link on here to all those wishing to join and participate....calling it a "National Day of Reason" could work. I just want to get us heard and get other groups involved such as freedom from religion foundation, other atheist organizations, people for the separation between church and state, freethinkers, and even and maybe some people of faith who feel that their faith is constantly being hijacked by the nuts who claim to be cut from the same cloth as them.

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Permalink Reply by Gwen on April 25, 2009 at 5:45am

Sounds great! The 'National day of Reason' sounds like an appropriate fit. I think we would need to bring in some of the big gun atheist groups to help with the organizing. FFRF has more experience with the organization of these kind of things as well as a long and well established arm.

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Permalink Reply by animus on July 31, 2009 at 2:40pm

Ditto! Count me in here somewhere!

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Permalink Reply by smb12321 on July 25, 2009 at 2:01pm

Interesting idea but would it be positive, especially if non-Americans (Dawkins, etc) spoke. True, it would instigate debate, talk show chat, prayers/denunciations, etc To get attention, you must (1) not be taken for granted and (2) expand your numbers. We become superfluous when we support only one party all the time. Besides, Mormons have attained great influence without marches and lots of fanfare. They did it through unceasing hard work.

I worry about politicizing atheism, especially our kneejerk support of the Left. Perhaps the biggest complaint is that we are NOT representive of America but are instead a small elite who thinks they know better than the majority . Unfortunately, comments on atheist forums seem to confirm that view. "Southern atheist" or "black atheist" seem almost oxymoronic. The "good old days" when folks could treat Ingersoll's, Edison's or Mencken's atheism with a wry shrug has long passed - probably because of the politicalization of society.

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Permalink Reply by Jay on July 25, 2009 at 2:07pm

If you can get Hitchens and perhaps Sam Harris to talk, then we might be able to disuade some of those arguments about "left" atheists.

In addition, in order for this to work, you definitely need to get the heavy hitters on board, and hopefully they would do it for free. I'm talking the people like Dawkins, PZ myers, Hitchens, Harris, Dennet, (hell even Bill Maher).

Also, you cannot forget the organizations: American Atheists, the RDF, and others.

I"m on board. DC isnt that far for me.