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Thanks to your generous donations, we’re able to move forward on our ridiculously adorable billboard!

This is our current frontrunner design – but we’re looking for your suggestions and criticisms. By all means, have at it!

If we’re able to afford a second billboard, we’ll be using the next most popular image:

Your support makes us feel warm and fuzzy!

To which we at the Skepticon team say:

We’ve priced billboards in the Springfield area and think it can be done for as little as $2,000 – and if we end with more? We’ll put it on buses in St. Louis and Kansas City. Here’s our concept template:

(Note that this is an updated version of our first concept, altered based on your comments and suggestions.)

But, internet – we need a star. And there are so many deserving candidates! Like these kittens punching holes in their known universe:

And these bulldog puppies:

And this fluffy kitten! And this awkward pair! And this slightly less awkward group of baby critters…

Help us decide, internet!

And please, please help us pay for it.

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A lot of people ask about the books that our speakers write and talk about in their speeches. Here is where you can find all of those books

Nailed
by David Fitzgerald
Why would anyone think Jesus never existed? Isn’t it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a real first century figure? As it turns out, no. NAILED sheds light on ten beloved Christian myths, and, with evidence gathered from historians across the theological spectrum, shows how they point to a Jesus Christ created solely through allegorical alchemy of hope and imagination; a messiah transformed from a purely literary, theological construct into the familiar figure of Jesus – in short, a purely mythic Christ.
http://www.amazon.com/Nailed-Christian-Myths-Jesus-Existed/dp/0557709911/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1324284610&sr=8-6

God’s Brothel
by Andrea Moore Emmett
The subtitle says it all: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Brothel-Extortion-Contemporary-Fundamentalist/dp/1930074131

By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
by Charles M. Larson
Exposes the Egyptian burial papyri that Joseph Smith claimed was “The Book of Abraham.”
http://www.amazon.com/His-Own-Hand-Upon-Papyrus/dp/0962096326

The Complete Heretic’s Guide To Western Religion: the Mormons
by David Fitzgerald
(coming 2012)

Under The Kilt
by Kilt Kilpatrick
A dozen brilliant, sexy stories of love, lust, wonder and suspense in several genres (contemporary, historical, paranormal, science fiction, steampunk, horror and fantasy)
http://www.ravenousromance.com/anthologies/under-the-kilt-the-best-stories-by-kilt-kilpatrick.php