Keep Up The Good Work
Geoff Parsons
From: "Geoff Parsons"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Sent: August 29, 2001 12:13 AM
Subject: atheism saves
First, I love the site, I only wish you had more handbills and posters for those of us with a desire to post them.
Second, a brief story: Last year in my college I was lucky enough to room with an atheist. (I myself am somewhere in between agnostic and atheist.) While in school we began to tire of the constant postings of the school's countless religious organizations about praying for exams and such, so we took it upon ourselves to spread the word of thought (or in the case of praying instead of studying for exams -- common sense). We posted on our door and the wall space next to it (to avoid violating campus posting rules) and then came to find out that apparently these types of postings don't make people happy. We counted two ice cream cones that were flung at our door, quite a few sodas and numerous people ripping our messages down. Still we persevered and even got the backing of our Resident Assistant in posting. The final straw was during finals week when someone tried to light our message board on fire. This year, I'm back at the same school and was lucky enough to be put on the same floor as the apartment containing most of the 'high-ups' of the Campus Ministries. Well, you get the idea.
So keep up the good work.
Thanks again,
Geoff Parsons
From: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
To: "geoff"
Subject: Re: atheism saves
Date: August 28, 2001 9:16 PM
Thanks for this! Your story is real cute!
First, I love the site, I only wish you had more handbills and posters for those of us with a desire to post them.
If you have any ideas, let me know. These all came about because current events forced me to stop remaining silent on the issues. If you see something on our web site that you think would look nice as a printable PDF handbill, or if you see something that would make a neat two- or three-fold pamphlet, point it out and I'll see what we can do with it.
I'd like to get some bumper stickers going as well, but despite unprecedented web traffic, the money only trickles in to the point where I still pay fully half the bills even on good months (and more on off months).
Cliff Walker
Positive Atheism Magazine
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people with no reason to believe
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