Posted on 12/07/2005 5:27:03 PM PST by Heyworth
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BEYOND BELIEF MEDIA DECLARES WAR ON CHRISTMAS
FIRST OFFENSIVE FEATURES NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY ADS, DVD “GUERILLA GIVEAWAYS”
Los Angeles, December 5, 2005 -- Beyond Belief Media has formally declared war on Christmas, the December 25 holiday in which Christians celebrate the birth of the mythical figure Jesus Christ, the company announced today.
“Christian conservatives complain nonstop about the ‘War on Christmas,’ but there really isn’t any such war,” said Beyond Belief Media president Brian Flemming , a former fundamentalist Christian who is now an atheist activist. “So we have decided to wage one, to demonstrate what it would look like if Jesus’ birthday were truly attacked.”
As its opening salvo, Beyond Belief Media has purchased advertisements this week in the New York Times , USA Today and the New Yorker magazine. The company’s 300-member volunteer “street team” is also descending on Christmas-themed public events with random “guerilla giveaways” of Beyond Belief’s acclaimed DVD THE GOD WHO WASN'T THERE .
“No Christmas pageant or Nativity display is safe from our troops,” said Flemming. “Wherever the mythical figure Jesus is celebrated as if he were real, we will be there with an information barrage. We will undercut the idea that there is any point at all to celebrating the ‘birth’ of a character in a fairy tale.”
THE GOD WHO WASN'T THERE is a taboo-shattering documentary that Newsweek says “irreverently lays out the case that Jesus Christ never existed.” The film includes interviews with some of the top religion experts in the world. Directed by Flemming, the movie is also highly critical of the modern Christian right and explores the dangers that religious belief poses to society. The movie has been praised by critics but condemned by pro-theocracy groups such as James Dobson’s Focus on the Family.
“Obviously our ‘War on Christmas’ is a bit tongue-in-cheek,” said Flemming. “But the Christian myth does dominate U.S. culture, and there’s no time better than Christmas to take a fresh look at that myth and see it for what it is.”
The ads may be viewed at http://www.thegodmovie.com. The New Yorker magazine ad appears in the Dec. 12 issue, going on sale today. The New York Times ad appears on Dec. 6, the USA Today ad on Dec. 9. The “guerilla giveaway” raids begin today and continue through Christmas.
I declare war back-atcha and your sorry ***.MERRY CHRISTMAS AND I'LL RAISE YOU A HO! HO HO! AND A FA-LA-LA-LA!!!
This guy is nothing but hot air. The real demons live in the abortion clinics killing innocent babies. This atheist group is nothing more then a turd that floated up from hell.
Only 9 posts until Christian threats of violence. Muhammad would be proud.
"Free speech is a bitch, ain't it?"
You're a pretty good facsimile yourself, noob.
Where are the freepers that have been making fun of Christians , that have been talking about an agenda to remove Christ from Christmas?
Go back to the Dummie hole Troll!
Welcome to the Free Republic.
I got a feeling you won't be with us long.
IBTZ
Welcome to FR. Bye.
Jesus Wore Birkenstocks
Since Dec 8, 2005
"Meaning no disrespect to the religious convictions of others, I
still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the
greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies
there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by
crucifixion. Where...is the miracle I spoke of? Well consider this and
let your imagination translate the story into our own time -- possibly
to your own hometown. A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up
working in his father's shop. One day he puts down his tools and walks
out of his father's shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in
the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the
while, even though he is not an ordained minister. He never gets farther
than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three
years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of
appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those
in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing --
the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place
for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb. End of story? No, this
uneducated, propertyless young man who...left no written word has, for
2,000 years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers,
kings, emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals; all the
scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived -- all of
them put together. How do we explain that? ...[U]nless he really was
what he said he was." --Ronald Reagan
Bring it on punks.
Joseph Smith's story isn't all that off from that. Does that make him a god in your eyes, too?
"Joseph Smith's story isn't all that off from that."
Except for the talking into the hat thing, that is.
Did he claim to be one?
He's making DUmb statements on other threads, too.
Now we have seen everything.
Umm.. Ok. They will never win their little war. Can you say attention whores?
How silly.
I think it would be more accurate to say that they are obsessing with the fact that everyone else apparently believes something they believe to be clearly incorrect in some fashion. This is no different than Democrats getting all lathered up over the failure of others to recognize "Bush's lies" or Conservatives getting their panties in a bind because Democrats believe you can tax your way to a good economy. It is remarkable how "obvious" truths can generate so much disagreement, which brings into question the asserted obviousness.
The obsession is with the apparent inability of their fellow man to discern something that is so blindingly obvious to them, not the object of belief per se.
I'm not claiming anything. I don't know your heart. A Christian however does not loose their belief. They might backslide but they always know who they belong to.
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