God cemetery

That headline doesn’t have quite the same ring as “Pet Cemetery.” In any case, H.L. Mencken once asked, “Where is the grave-yard of dead gods?”

As it happens, a couple were started last year, one by the North Georgia Skeptics Society:

Credit: North Georgia Skeptics Society

Credit: North Georgia Skeptics Society

And another by Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:

Credit: Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Credit: Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Most recently, a group from Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi. Here is a brief post from Reddit user Agnostic Atheist:

This is our own Graveyard. It’s not as big as a good one, but it still has a few dozen. Over night, some guys slightly vandalized our signs, with grammatical errors of course. It will be up all week up until Halloween this Friday. And a few of us at a time sit at the table to explain our club and promote discussions.

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If you haven’t read Mencken’s essay, “Graveyard of the Gods,” it’s well worth a look.