Atheist Family Dinner Billboard

The other day I was contemplating the steriotypes that surround Athiest and Christians and how they are not always accurate. One issue in particular that I was contemplating was family dinner time. My husband's brother is religious and yet has expressed jealousy about our family time. His family usually eats processed meals and usually in front of the television or computers. My husband and I are atheist and we make strong efforts to eat at the dinner table most of the time. We obviously do not pray before eating but the picturesque idea of eating at the dinner table seems to be associated with religion. This lead me to the idea of an atheist billboard showing a family eating together at the dinning room table. My husband helped me brainstorm sayings that could help reveal this misconception of atheist. He came up with "Because family comes first, think atheist," playing off of the religious saying, "God, family, country," which indicates family comes second. Hope you like the billboard. The image we attached is only an example; we used internet images. The actual billboard we were thinking would have the ideal looking family (ie dressed in nice clothes as if they just returned from church) happily enjoying thier home cooked meal together. ; )

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Permalink Reply by luvtheheaven on July 29, 2010 at 7:42pm

That's wonderful! :D

Permalink Reply by LWatts on August 2, 2010 at 3:05pm

That is a pretty cool mock up! Nice work.

Permalink Reply by Becca on August 29, 2011 at 9:39pm

I like this idea. It's a positive view of atheism that normalized atheists.

Permalink Reply by Rob Klaers on April 17, 2012 at 6:28pm

Of course for the mock-up you used Davy and Goliath... Niice.. LOL

Permalink Reply by Richard E. Robertson on May 2, 2013 at 1:27pm

You might might want to do a side by side comparison of families... on of faith, one atheist, both looking happy together at meal time. I'm assuming you are meaning to confront the stereotype based on how you led off your posting.

Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on May 3, 2013 at 5:52pm

Of course, you'd have to have a baby on a platter in the middle of the table!

Permalink Reply by Misty: Baytheist Living! on May 4, 2013 at 1:29pm

Great idea! Love it!

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