Unholy Cow - Nakedly Atheist Booth at the KY State Fair

They said their billboard was aimed at State Fair goers, but they didn't warn us they were actually going to expose themselves at the Fair itself.

From the Courier:

He was manning a booth sponsored by the Kentucky Secular Society, a coalition of atheist and humanistic groups seeking to make themselves known in a setting that draws people from through a predominately religious state. They were attempting to demonstrate the claim the group made in a large billboard off the Interstate 65 exit to the fair proclaiming, “Don't Believe in God? You are not alone.”

“It gives us a chance to explain what we believe and what we don’t believe and why,” said Lovell, one of three volunteers staffing the booth Wednesday morning. “They're learning it from our mouths, instead of the mouths of preachers.”

SNIP

We have a free country because it's based on values held in common between secular politics and Judeo-Christian values.”

The booth, located in the South Wing of the Kentucky Exposition Center, was adorned with busts of famous atheists, deists and other "freethinkers" who rejected belief in a God that reveals guidance to humans or is involved in human events. It also included posters and a video slideshow of such people, along with some of their quotations against religion. They included evolution pioneer Charles Darwin, author Mark Twain, founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine and women's rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Read the whole thing, then be sure to visit the atheist booth at the Kentucky State Fair - Sunday's the last day.

Oh, and Courier? Keep putting perfectly straightforward terms like Freethinkers in scare quotes, and I'll start calling you "a Kentucky 'newspaper'" like Jake does.