Don't stand next to this billboard during an electrical storm

By NADIA PFLAUM

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This so-called "godless billboard" along Interstate 35 in Overland Park is visible to cars traveling southbound past Antioch Road. It's paid for by KCFreeThinkers.org, a group of nonbelievers trying to attract other atheists and agnostics into the nonfold.


According to the KCFreeThinkers Web site, the attention-seeking tactic is working: More than 770 people have viewed the site since the billboard went up in September.

The group's press release claims that surveys have identified nonreligious people as a growing group of 25 million to 50 million people and that as many as 40 percent of people ages 19 to 40 classify themselves as nonbelievers.

Cole Morgan, a spokesman for the group, promises that after clicking on the site to learn about the discussion gatherings and upcoming events, "No door-to-door freethinking evangelist will ever visit, and there are no pop-ups on the Web page. Our only aim is to reach those who really want to learn more."

The billboard will be up for the rest of October, and the group is considering adding another on the Missouri side.

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