Brights movement logo

Have you heard of the Brights movement?

The Brights movement is the 2003 brainchild of two American atheists who felt that atheism had an unfairly poor reputation, especially in the USA. They proposed that part of the problem was the dry, academic sound of the word "atheist" itself, and proposed that a new word was needed, taking as their example the triumph of the proud, celebratory word "gay" over its medicalising predecessor, "homosexual". The word that they proposed was "bright" as in "I am a bright".

This bold move has been embraced by many atheists all over the world, and received the enthusiastic support of, among others, philosopher Daniel C Dennett and biologist Richard Dawkins.

I am as I'm sure you know sympathetic to the aims of this movement, but I don't think the logo (pictured above) is quite right, so I have taken the step of making my own proposal for a new logo which better reflects their new choice of name. ( Read more... )