Australian Atheists offer to help others "escape" religion.

Here is the billboard put up by Sidney Atheists.

And here is their press release concerning the billboards: 

Have you escaped religion? We have! 

Most of the members of Sydney Atheists once belonged to a religion. With the benefit of a comprehensive and usually critical education, particularly in the areas of science, history, geography, philosophy and religion we have discovered the fallacies of religions. It is a great challenge for many to escape the religious indoctrination that most of us have suffered, usually from birth. 

We have members who once belonged to religions ranging from Judaism, Christianity and Islam to Hinduism and Sikhism. It stands to reason that because all religions make the claim that they are somehow uniquely correct in their supernatural claims, they are all simply false belief systems that deny the realities of the universe, life in general and particularly the place of humanity on this earth. 

Sydney Atheists invite those who are trapped by religious belief to escape the bounds and strictures of their religions to gain freedom of thought, deed and a better life, governed by morals that are determined through rational, humane and skeptical thinking and the just laws of the land.

I used to have serious doubts about how much this kind of thing really helps.

However lately I have become somewhat of a convert after reading testimonials from people on the internet about how helpful it was to leave their religions after discovering that there was already a community of non-believers ready to offer support.

Hey anything that helps to let others see that a life without religion is not only possible, but amazing seems like a good idea to me.