“The “American Humanist Association” has put $40,000 into a holiday bus campaign promoting atheism in Washington, DC. The advertisement reads: “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake.”

The line is from a much longer original promo: “No one sees you when you’re sleeping. No one knows when you’re awake. No one cares if you’ve been bad or good” and you get the idea.

The point of the campaign is to make non-theists feel a little less lonely during the magical, Christian, and (in some years) Judaic holiday month of December. No word on how a multicultural tradition of a gift-giving old man has to be inherently tied with Jesus. An unsympathetic representative from the American Family Association responded to the campaign:

“It’s a stupid ad.”

You know. Jesus gave Aristotle a similar reply.

U.S. getting its own atheism bus campaign.html [Ad Week]