Sorry to have been so long responding. I’ve been swamped with work.
@hiphiphopflipflapflop That’s a great image. I am not sure how many people know it, but Isaac Newton was a deeply religious man. He was also into Cabala and occult interpretations, looking for the magic hidden in Bible Code and so forth. Had the church known his beliefs, he would likely have been charged with heresy. It is unfortunate. He pushed his theory of mass attraction to the point of developing calculus to predict motions of celestial objects. But when he began to grapple with the effect of not just the sun on a given planer, but other planets, each in their own odd orbits tugging on all other planets and the sun itself, and how moons added to that complexity, he went into tilt mode. He said only God could order all that. It remained for future generations to actually do the math to show that except for the slight variance that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Newton’s calculus was entirely up to the task of calculating the orbits with all their interdependencies. He took science so very far, but in the end, when he hit a wall he couldn’t understand, he posited that God must control that because it was incomprehensible to him.
@mattbrown I understand what you are saying. There aren’t a lot of images that “represent” atheism. I’m thinking that a pleasing appeal to science sort of look is right for this. I definitely want to avoid imagery that most religious people would find offensive.
@Sunny2 Agreed. I’m not so sure about red and black. Sound rather satanic—and that’s just an appeal to one human invention of a magical being in lieu of another. But the thoughts on the logo are spot on.
@ragingloli It’s powerful and for some sites it would be a dynamite look. But my client wants this site to be less confrontational. \
@Kardamom You see what I mean. Thanks.
@thecaretaker Please don’t be deliberately obtuse. I know who Henry III was and know what he looked like . The concern I expressed was about people in Africa, India, Asia and yes, America recognizing him—and that those who did would not associate him with Freedom from Religion, just freedom to kill off wives and marry others. That is not the image my client is seeking.
@chyna I will definitely do that. It will be a while, but when it’s online, I’ll let you all know the URL.
@SavoirFaire That’s an excellent point on symbolism. My thinking is to avoid it other than creating a symbol for the logo and hoping this organization can drive that symbol into the meme. I think a look and feel is more what I am after.
@talljasperman what-imagery-calls-to-mind-freedom-from-religion/#quip1982089 Weren’t the Puritans looking for the freedom from other religions so they could set up their own version of an American Taliban. Hardly freedom from religion, just freedom to cram your own religion down everyone else’s throat.
@mattbrowne I think that a symbol of some recognizable sort is essential for the logo. The rest of the site’s graphics, look and feel; I am pretty well zeroed in on..
@Sunny2 That’s pretty interesting. May be workable for a logo.