There has been some concern in the Atheist News group as to the strategy of the American Atheists Association displaying confrontational Atheist billboards in North Carolina at the time of the Democratic Convention there. My perspective of the matter was set forth as follows:

I think the timing of the ads has been very ill chosen unless they are also going to suggest a way to reduce the unemployment rate. In my opinion people really don't care what religion which candidate is right now. They care about which candidate is going to do the most for them in terms of providing financial security. In my opinion the ads will amount to Atheism leading with its chin to be knocked out by theists and fence sitters who will claim that rather than addressing the very serious economic problems that should be getting all but exclusive consideration they are serving as no more than irritating distractions that pull focus off of meaningful solutions regarding who gets what in terms of economical accommodation. Simply put, I think the ads will demonstrate a lack of couth on the part of Atheism that will turn a lot of people off to It. Atheism should not be doing counterproductive things much less spending money on them. If It doesn't come off as something good and nice it is my opinion that it will never prevail because people will be too reluctant to be labeled villains. 

Others in the discussion tended to feel that the timing of the ads was inappropriate and that the ads, otherwise, tended to be too harsh to be mind opening. The purpose of this post is to open a debate on the matter.  

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/13/first-on-cnn-atheist-group...