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Atheists, agnostics rent billboard here Group aims to 'take our message to the un-Massed masses.' Keep the faith.

Publication: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Publication Date: 05-SEP-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Atheists, agnostics rent billboard here Group aims to 'take our message to the un-Massed masses.' Keep the faith.(Religion)

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Byline: Tim Townsend ttownsend@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8221

WEST ST. LOUIS COUNTY - The billboard sits low in the sky - below another one for a real estate broker - as if it's uncertain it wants to trumpet its message too loudly.

"Imagine no religion," it reads in a medieval-looking font, framed in a colorful stained-glass window pattern.

The small billboard, on a strip of Manchester Road crowded with retail outlets, also gives the Web address for its sponsor, the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation.

On its website, the foundation says it "works as an umbrella for those who are free from religion" and, with 14,000 members, calls itself the country's largest association of atheists and agnostics.

This is the group's first billboard in Missouri, but it has bought billboard space in 18 states since launching what it calls its "educational campaign" in 2007. Its other billboard messages - all in the same church-y design - include "Beware of Dogma" and...

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