Atheists placed giant posters in Daley Plaza this Easter to counter the Christian Easter display.
Atheist proudly stand with their anti-Christian banner in Daley Plaza in 2014.
Atheist activists placed their anti-Christian posters in Daley Plaza again this year for
The Freedom From Religion Foundation reported:
The nation’s largest association of atheists and agnostics and its Chicago chapter are placing a patriotic red-white-and-blue secular display to counter a large Catholic Easter display at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago for the second Easter in a row.
Two colorful 8-foot banners on a 12-foot structure promoting the secular views of founding fathers will be placed by Saturday in Daley Plaza by the Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation and its FFRF Metropolitan Chicago chapter.
One banner reads: “In Reason We Trust,” and pictures Thomas Jefferson, displaying his famous advice to a nephew, “Question with boldness even the existence of a god.” The other side proclaims, “Keep State & Religion Separate,” and pictures President John Adams, who signed the Treaty of Tripoli, which assured “. . . the government of the United States is not in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. . .”
The FFRF display is designed to counter what is believed to be days of round-the-clock prayer and evangelism in Daley Plaza by the Thomas More Society, a Catholic group, which has evangelized in the plaza every Easter since 2011. The group’s aim, through its “Divine Mercy Project,” is to seek the “conversion of Chicago, America and the Whole World.”
The Catholic society is expected to place a 10-foot-tall painting of Jesus, which it claims was miraculously inspired, with the statement “Jesus, I trust in you.” The painting is accompanied by a 14-foot cross on the public plaza. In past years, Catholic supporters have also held 24-hour prayer vigils, distributed thousands of prayer cards and hosted anti-abortion rallies in front of the Jesus painting.
These anti-Christian activists believe attacking Christians during Holy Week is a great way to get their message out.