I saw this commercial. I think it sends a positive message. Do you agree? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ZqQznblZo)

In a truly free society, such as we aspire to be, there is no conscionable reason to repress free thought, to deny the opportunity to discover truth in one's own way, unencumbered by the moribund thinking of the past. 

Encouraging the Freedom of Mind is absolutely positive, IMO it is imperative and, on this example, long overdue. 

Here is the commercial -

Your opinion?

atheism is a farce, a lie people tell themselves in order to be different from everyone else its a notion that is not grounded in reality the existence that we have cannot have come about on its own but thru the hand of an all powerful all knowing architect there's two realities either we excist because we were created or we do not excist at all that's it

I think it sends a necessary message. Young people raised in a religious environment may question their beliefs but when their parents, friends and church associates all believe in God they may think that questioning what they have been taught is in some way "wrong" or ungrateful to the God they have been taught has given them so much.

An ad like this can only help them to realise that there are alternatives and that lots of people have rejected religion as a component of their lives.

Secular education is probably more necessary in the US than in most other Western countries, for America is mired in the religious thought of the 1950s. When I come on sites like this one, or Ask, I find it amazing that such an advanced nation is so far behind.

So, yes, I think it's a good presentation. It doesn't preach or proselytise but quietly presents an alternative to religious propaganda.

Dear DarkMajinn,

Yes...I like the commercial very much, and think it very much does send a positive message...refreshing, it just makes me feel good. I just don't think its message is (necessarily) atheist.

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It was on Ask.com that I first encountered a brand of atheism that is more constricting than anything in my Christian upbringing (which I rejected at age 13).

I think that optimally, in the words of Sam Harris, "Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations"...and it certainly has been that for me, a powerful way to grow and flourish.