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Evangelicals agree children shouldn't be labelled

Press Release

Evangelical Alliance responds to Humanist Billboard campaign

18 November 2009

The second phase of the Billboard advertising campaign from the British Humanist Association has been unveiled today. The posters now up in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast depict children alongside both faith labels and labels which the organisers say are unlikely to be put on children. Alongside this imagery is the slogan 'Please don't label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself'

This series of adverts come roughly ten months after the famous Atheist Bus Campaign with the slogan 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.'

Justin Thacker, Head of Theology at the Evangelical Alliance said: "It is great to see that the Humanists are now agreeing that children have to make their own decisions about faith.

"Evangelicals do not believe that God has any grandchildren, only children. You are not a Christian simply because your parents are. Every child or adult has to make up their own minds about the reality of God."

 

Media Contact:

Charis Gibson / Lucy Cooper
Evangelical Alliance
020 7207 2117 / 2107
c.gibson@eauk.org / l.cooper@eauk.org

Notes to editors:
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