Saturday, December 09, 2017

Atheists have adopted Donald Trump's favorite catch phrase, but I do not think he will appreciate how they put it to use.

Courtesy of NBC News: 

Nick Fish, a spokesman for American Atheists, claimed the signs aren’t meant to offend, but to spark a dialogue by adding a topical tag line.

“It’s a way of starting a conversation not just with this organization but within a community,” Fish told NBC News on Wednesday. “The choice is often between being provocative or not being heard at all. If we can start that initial conversation, then we’re doing our jobs to get the ball rolling and get our foot in the door.” 

Since the signs were put up on Nov. 30, many atheists in the affected areas have come forward in support of them, Fish said. These atheists claimed that the billboards made them feel as though they weren’t alone in their community. 

American Atheists, which has gone after Christian groups as well as other organized religions since they formed in 1963, specifically targeted areas that they felt were particularly religiously homogeneous. 

“It’s about targeting areas where religious identity is assumed. Albuquerque is not necessarily a conservative place,” Fish said, “but there is a lot of religious expectation there and we want to challenge that.”

There is of course very little in the Bible that is supported by the facts, so defining it as "fake news" seems perfectly reasonable.

Of course if reason was something that the majority of Christians were to embrace there would be a whole lot fewer Christians.

11 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:03 AM

    I love it. Challenging religion is an essential step to taking back our country from Republicans and especially the low information Trump supporters.

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  2. Anonymous2:24 AM

    You cannot tell people who and who not to love. It is private and personal how someone worships and loves. Religion has been used from the beginning of mankind to enslave his fellow man. Separation of church and state means well but today we see the damage caused by LIARS of the Republican party of Russia crapola stinking up the soil. Time to end the scam Russia!!!! and take that lousy ugly pos sob fraud fake boar and shove it up your septic system.
    RUSSIAN CITIZENS? GET YER CHIT TOGETHER AND REMOVE YOUR STAINED DICKTATER AND GET A BACKBONE. DEMOCRACY WORKS AND YOU PEOPLE NEED IT.

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  3. Anonymous3:26 AM

    Ha ha most of those fake christians only go to church when it is convienent anyway.

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  4. Anonymous3:36 AM

    Posted on yesterday's thread late:king rick synder R-Mi,set the election for Conyers's seat on Nov.2018.which means the democrats lose a vote for almost a year in the house!
    Pretty sneaky, are they expecting an impeachment vote,also no vote on tax scam.

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  5. Anonymous3:38 AM

    Wow. And now it is said that the California wild fires are tied to trump stumps. They are setting fires as they did 2 yrs ago in san Bernardino. And recent silicone valley. Yikes!!! Are their bad fire fighters? maybe arsonist? moron liars starting fires? Smells like trump alright. Distraction and insults to sway the vote. Hope for the end and arrest of these hateful criminals.

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  6. Anonymous5:05 AM

    Love changes everything. But resist the hateful evil republican deplorable basket of liars.

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  7. Anonymous5:43 AM

    If you asked people who study bible history 30 years ago if this jesus person existed, most of them would have said yes. Today, a majority of them would say that it is unlikely that a single person jesus existed. The history just isn't there. It is more likely that allegorical stories were pulled together by the people who wrote the early versions of the bible in the 400s to form a person they called jesus.
    Fake news? Yep.

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    1. Anonymous7:03 AM

      Well I saw a documentary on Jesus on PBS and they all agree there was one person named Jesus.however he is not the person portrayed by present day Christians.

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    2. Anonymous2:14 AM

      Well if you saw a documentary with an opinion for you to swallow... Surely you should simply adhere to it.

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  8. Anonymous9:03 AM

    Christians use the bible to justify their ognorance, bigotry and misogyny.

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  9. Anonymous9:46 AM

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/author-of-american-nightmare-trump-has-made-unabashed-right-wing-populism-and-racism-the-center-of-his-power/

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