An anti-religion group has posted a sign in the Illinois state capitol that attacks religion as “superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.” The group first posted the sign in 2008 for the holiday season. Now, it’s back, and it’s not going anywhere.
The sign reads:
At this season of the Winter Solstice, may reason prevail.
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell.
There is only our natural world.
Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
The sign was originally posted in protest after a different group was allowed to put up a nativity scene in the capitol.
“We nonbelievers don’t mind sharing the season with Christians,” Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president, said in a statement. “We just don’t like the pretense that it’s about a supernatural birth of a god.”
The foundation has the same message engraved on a monument at the Wisconsin state capitol. It demonstrates the cost of government allowing nativities or other Christian displays. They can’t discriminate against other beliefs, even atheists decrying all other religions.
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