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 isnt 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 companys 300-member volunteer street team is also descending on Christmas-themed public events with random guerilla giveaways of Beyond Beliefs 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 Dobsons 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 theres 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.
Which probably means the buttwipe created a new identity and has several others he uses to troll around.
I've not come across any record of him claiming deity status. He's been accused of doing so, though.
Correct
"He's making DUmb statements on other threads, too."
Yep. I question the wit of a DUmmy, who would have what she consider to be a mythological figure, wear Birkenstocks.
So materialistic. So Eurocentric. Tsk tsk tsk.
Post and run loser
That's becutiful!
Folk that...
Ah...well that would set him apart from Christ.
Doubt it. But perhaps shortly after their death bed.
Joseph Smith??? Oh!! You mean the name that everyone uses when they take their girlfriend to a motel and dont want to use their own name. Must be a million Joe Smiths in the motel industry.
I do know my heart. I assure you, my Deist beliefs are not just backslid Christianity.
*cough* True Scotsman Fallacy *cough*
Not arguing the topic, just the validity of that construction.
It's simple. If you really were a Christian you are a Christian. If you aren't a Christian then you weren't one then.
CHEAP HAWKING OF A CRUMMY MICHAEL MOORE KNOCKOFF.
IBTZ
Ah, but the tale offered up as proof of His divinity not only doesn't emphasize His claims to Godhood, but doesn't even use it to qualify the proof.
Instead, it makes the claim that, essentially, since he was an uneducated nobody that was executed as a young man and still had a massive effect on people religiously, then He must be a God.
Unless you are claiming that the story shows not that He was God directly, but simply that what He was saying must have been true - and what He was saying was He was God. In which case one could conclude that Joseph Smith was not a god, but what he was saying was true. So we all better become Mormons.
Luke 8:13 describes your situation.
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