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September 12, 2009

Atheists, agnostics hold weekend conference in Indianapolis

by Robert King
The Indianapolis Star

INDIANAPOLIS -- City buses in Bloomington and South Bend carry ads telling passengers "You can be good without God."

A billboard going up in Indianapolis will ask commuters to "Imagine No Religion."

And a local group of atheists, agnostics, secular humanists and others is hosting "Religion Under Examination," a three-day conference this weekend seeking to show the Bible and the Quran, Islam's holy text, are fiction.

Once resigned to brooding quietly, nonbelievers are making their presence known. Driving the surge is a combination of developments:

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