[Responding to a polite, reasonable post from an atheist asking why the atheist billboard campaign is any different than Christian billboards]
Atheists never focus their venom towards other "faiths". Not to mention they single out a particular day that "other faiths" do not embrace. It was just a small minded attempt to impugn something about which they have no clue. It was standard fare from atheists.
Also, you mistake my disdain for the pettiness of the billboard as objecting to a different idea. It's OK atheists never figure out what our intentions are. If there was some coherent though expressed, OK, but can you honestly tell us that any such thing exists in that silly billboard, really?
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LOL @ "polite, reasonable post" That may just be a tad biased. I'd sure like to see the text of that post to see how polite and reasonable it really is, because atheists can be just as nasty as anyone else.
Looks pretty polite to me Adam
"While I understand that you all believe this to be a Christian nation, does the acknowledgment on a billboard that there are different ideas out there other that Christianity truly bother you that much? I mean, if Christians are allowed to advertise their faith-say through billboards, church billboards, or through (as I've seen) television commercials, is it truly wrong that other faiths/lack of faiths are allowed to do the same?
While neither should be endorsed in schools or on public property with taxpayers money, imo, if one pays his/her money for a billboard or a commercial, why is that so offensive?"
He will be gone soon enough. Despite the fact that he is being calm, reasonable, and overly sensitive, they will lose him because he is bringing rational discussion to their looney bin.
As far as I understand it the coherent thought was "There are other forms of faith/non-faith out there."
Your intentions are to cram your version of Christianity down everyone's throat. Not that hard to figure out, really; it takes just one meeting with one fundie Christian to get it.
Actually, the word "god" is an indefinite noun. When you say, "There are no dogs in the room," you aren't singling out any particular dog--you're talking about all dogs in general.
Similarly, when atheists say, "There's probably no god," they are referring to all gods in general, from Vishnu to Ahura Mazda to YHWH to Freya to Zeus. If you don't understand that, you still are lost.
"If there was some coherent though(t) expressed, OK, but can you honestly tell us that any such thing exists in that silly billboard, really?"
Oh that's rich! Tell another one! Oh, you were serious? But all that puerile, "Hello down there, this is God" BS on the Christian billboards was just fine? I think you should go back to shoving peas up your nose and leave argument to those that know how. How's that for a coherent thought?
I've seen the ads online and there is nothing in them that is attacking any faith at all. All they seem to be saying is "Are you an atheist? You're not alone."
But of course, an atheist admitting that they're an atheist is somehow an attack on Christianity. Because I guess it's totally offensive that we exist.
"If there was some coherent though expressed, OK,"
If you could process coherent thought, OK, but you can't.
Let's put it this way. If the sign said "there is probably no Allah,,," RR people would be upset about the word "probably".
And yes, they don't want those with doubts to know they're not alone and that some gave up on the God belief long ago. They're taught that good Christians never harbor a single doubt about their God.
Adam said:
LOL @ "polite, reasonable post" That may just be a tad biased. I'd sure like to see the text of that post to see how polite and reasonable it really is, because atheists can be just as nasty as anyone else.
As an atheist, all I ask you to do, is to provide some evidence for your confabulations. If you can't, it is reasonable to assume that you are following a fantasy. I don't see how you can demand respect for someone following a fantasy.
But go ahead and show me your evidence. But I guess, the only thing you have, is more hand waving and bible quotes and no evidence.
@ Headache
You want to see asshole atheists? Head over to Evil Bible (if it's still up). I lasted less than a day on there, I just couldn't take the hatred. Even on here I've seen people state that all religious people should be killed. Yeah, there's hateful anti-theists out there and to say there isn't is just being wilfully blind.
As for the OPimage
Face it, you Kool Aid guzzlers at Rapture Ready really hate it when you find out that there are people out there who don't buy into the whole god nonsense. We're not fearful for the afterlife and you can't shake us with visions of doom and gloom and an eternity of torture.
Call me crazy, but I think it says a lot about so-called "Christians" that they attack an atheist who was very polite, simply because they're one of those "godless freaks".
And you wonder why you get called hypocrites.
But I do agree that some atheists are assholes as well.
Sure we do. We make fun of Muslims and pagans all the time, mostly to their faces. Just like we make fun of Christianity to your faces. But we don't make fun of Islam to your faces, and we don't make fun of Christians to Muslim faces, because that would just be weird.
Maybe because other religions, for the most part, don't proselytize, and when they do, they don't get pushy about it, or throw fits when they don't get their way... unlike Christians, who scream "persecution" if they get a fucking hangnail.
"Atheists never focus their venom towards other "faiths"."
Both Dawkins and Hitchens (now there's an Atheist poster boy for impolite, fair but rude) have come into prominance during Islamic terrorism. This is because there are parrallels between religious fanaticism and their actions. Both have covered the rising tide of violence and coersion in both camps.
Yes people, Atheists can be impolite and rude but anybody who posts on RR really need to clue in on their brethern. We have as much right to be rude as you think your God gives you
We all know your intentions, RR, to drink the Kool-Aid for your sky-fairy once he never whisks you away to Neverland.
I suggest expediting your master plan.
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