Atheists begin to say to the world: "Hi. We're here."

NYT: “We announced to the world that we’re around. We’re here.”

It doesn’t attack religion or say there is no God. It simply says: “You don’t have to believe in God to be a moral or ethical person.” Hard to gainsay that thought.

SHOOT: Good to see them joining he conversation. Damn Christians drown out just about everyone else.

clipped from www.nytimes.com For the city’s organized atheists — here’s hoping that doesn’t sound oxymoronic — the rotten economy would seem in one respect to be Heaven-sent. “You got it,” Kenneth Bronstein said. Mr. Bronstein is president of New York City Atheists, whose name should be self-explanatory. For the last month, his group has run 12-foot-long advertisements on the sides of city buses in Manhattan. You may have seen them, though perhaps not. New York City Transit has 981 buses assigned to Manhattan, and the atheists could afford ads on only about two dozen. The message, in white lettering on a sky-blue background, is nonconfrontational by design. It doesn’t attack religion or say there is no God. It simply says: “You don’t have to believe in God to be a moral or ethical person.” Hard to gainsay that thought. Most of us know nonbelievers who are pillars of rectitude. We also know pious types who are as honest as a Siberian winter’s day is long.