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A crèche appeared next to the lighted tree display at the West Milford municipal complex over the weekend.
A crèche appeared next to the lighted tree display at the West Milford municipal complex over the weekend.
American Atheists added a sign to the holiday observance in front of the West Milford municipal building on Sunday.
American Atheists added a sign to the holiday observance in front of the West Milford municipal building on Sunday.

Atheists Use Times Square Billboard for Anti-Christmas Pitch


1 posted on 12/21/2012 4:56:21 PM PST by Coleus
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To: Coleus

“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.” - John 15:18

JoMa


2 posted on 12/21/2012 5:05:35 PM PST by joma89
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To: Coleus

Should say “Give thanks for nothing”.


3 posted on 12/21/2012 5:06:51 PM PST by AU72
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To: Coleus

What a farce.

And no one is interested in how this is done. Scream about the liberals, but they know how to get everyone to go along with being presumed to be a corporation.

Breaking News: Corporations never privately owned - they are rented from the State that creates them.

So ask yourself, what happens when a natural person is deemed a corporate “individual”?

The 16th Amendment forbids PRIVATE ownership of slaves in the US - it doesn’t prevent the US from owning slaves.

Especially slaves that are called individuals.

Individuals who are banned from saying “Christmas.”

But go ahead, scream at the liberals. pay no attention to what they are actually doing - and how they are doing it.

It’s almost 2013 - get your Individual Obamacare check ready.


4 posted on 12/21/2012 5:11:25 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Coleus

Even though they belittle the holidays, you will notice that they sure take them off. In fact, don’t stand by the doorway or you’ll get trampled. They expect gifts, want Christmas bonuses, etc. The fact that they attack Christmas and Christians in general shows a deep seated fear and self loathing which requires them to attack. If, deep down they really didn’t believe, they would simply ignore Christmas and Christians and go their merry unbelieving way .... but they don’t because of the giant holes inside of themselves.


5 posted on 12/21/2012 5:17:15 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Save the nation, have your family's progressives spayed or neutered.)
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To: Coleus
Religious Folks Use Billboard to Bash Atheists!

similar sign

They put up theirs, you put up yours try that "Live and Let Live" thing...

There are people on this website with a variety of religious beliefs. That freedom is a fundamental part of our republic. Kind of a "Free Republic". When we are facing the collapse of our currency, the gutting of our military, it seems that you would rather anger folks about privately held beliefs than to rally like minded people to work on issues of common ground.

I am not Jewish, yet I do not have a fit when a city not far from me has a big menorah out in public.

I am not a Jehovah's Witness or Mormon, yet I do not yell that they are trespassing when they knock on my door to "convert" me. (although if they delivered the mail at the same time, we could save some dough)

I don't demand that the state of "Maryland" change its name due to the obvious religious history of it.

I don't scream bloody murder that the coins in my pocket say "In God We Trust".

There are people in this world that do not share your religious viewpoint, and religious viewpoints by their very nature are not tangible, provable things. Why provoke needless arguments amongst people here when instead we can try to contribute productive discussions of tangible, concrete policical issues?

Thomas Jefferson no less said this:

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ... "
6 posted on 12/21/2012 5:19:55 PM PST by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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To: Coleus

If they don’t believe, why are they afraid of believers?


7 posted on 12/21/2012 5:38:55 PM PST by Bronzy
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Seems awfully hateful.

Maybe there’s a crime in there somewhere.

And, for a myth, there certainly is a lot of historical and archeological evidence, unlike a real myth, like the Cyclops (which turned out to be based on elephant skeletons).


8 posted on 12/21/2012 5:38:55 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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Also, where is their evidence that “it’s a myth”?


9 posted on 12/21/2012 5:45:14 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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Atheists should stick to their own symbols and idols. You don't see Christians, Jews, or Buddhists trying to proselytize by putting down other religions and mocking their traditions.

P.S. in Saudi Arabia, displaying either of those two billboards would be punishable by decapitation.

10 posted on 12/21/2012 5:57:19 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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Atheism isn’t a religion so why does the city allow them to post anything. I guess they are afraid of the cost of fighting a lawsuit.


14 posted on 12/21/2012 6:01:43 PM PST by Coleus
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Newly dead atheist walks up to heavens gate and says, St Peter let me in. Peter says ‘what you believed on earth is what you receive in eternity. For you believed heaven is a myth so a myth it is to you forever. Now go and inherit the destiny you believed in’.


17 posted on 12/21/2012 6:17:20 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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Official Atheist Holiday Display

Looks amazing, guys. Keep up the great work. Society thanks you.

22 posted on 12/21/2012 7:03:52 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Coleus

As my pastor says when the subject comes up, Athesim IS a religion, and it does have its own high holiday: April First, All Fools Day.

I would have no problem with atheists placing a display with a POSITIVE message; but all they ever do is place a negative attack on Christianity, and sometimes also Judaism.

Even such sad & bile-filled creatures as they are, they are still loved by God. Of course my father still loved me too, when I made those proverbial trips to the woodshed.


30 posted on 12/22/2012 12:46:53 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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