Posted on 12/05/2008 10:25:10 AM PST by TaraP
I thought it would be safe," Freedom From Religion Foundation co-founder Annie Laurie Gaylor told CNN. "It's always a shock when your sign is censored or stolen or mutilated. It's not something you get used to."
The sign, which celebrated the winter solstice, had some residents and Christian organizations calling atheists Scrooges because they said it was attacking the celebration of Jesus Christ's birth.
"Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds," the sign from the Freedom From Religion Foundation said in part.
The sign, which was at the Legislative Building at 6:30 a.m. PT, was gone by 7:30 a.m., Gaylor said.
The incident will not stifle the group's message, Gaylor said, adding that a temporary sign with the same message would be placed in the building's Rotunda. Gaylor said a note would be attached saying, "Thou shalt not steal."
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These creeps are so insignificant. QUIT POSTING ANYTHING ABOUT THEM OR REGARDING THEM EVEN IN THE DIMMEST OF LIGHT. They are nothing, represent nothing. Their signs are nothing but rubbish for the rubbish bin, as are they.
well stated.
Exactly...Who did say *Thou shall not Steal*
If not GOD then *Oh well...I see your dumb sign I think I will toss it in the Dempsey Dumpster....
No harm no foul....It is good to throw trash in the dumpster.
Activist atheist morons ping
Betting they stole their own sign just to create a fuss....
Who cares?
Brilliant!
Or Gregoire’s goons “stole” it because of the bad press it was generating. I’ve seen them around election time, like little union trolls wearing hats and carrying armloads of signs to fair booths, etc.
"It's always a shock when your sign is censored or stolen or mutilated. It's not something you get used to."
it’s survival of the fittest and the atheist sign wasn’t ‘fit’ enough to survive.
That's probably true, or it was the governor. In any case I'm still going to use this opportunity to blame Obama. This is my "Grinch Before Christmas" one.
yeah, it’s one thing not to believe in something yourself and a whole ‘nother level of a-hole to claim that atheism is about hating and attacking people who believe something different.
If these God-haters could have just left the first paragraph and left off the attacks on others, nobody would have cared or complained. But if the Christians had a sign which said that Muslims are going to hell or that Hindus will burn in a lake of fire - I’d have to object along with the ACLU.
Not surprisingly, this gutless guy never mentions the real hatefulness of the extreme Islam.
Attacking Christians is all he has the nerve for, and even then he whines when his sign is (not surprisingly) stolen.
Atheism IS a RELIGION.....of SATAN!
Atheism is defined as a lack of belief in any supreme being or entity. Just how does atheism account for our existence? It doesn’t. While you are entitled to be an atheist, it just seems like there is a humongous question mark left hanging in the atheist belief system don’t you think?
While I’m not trying to be rude, i just don’t understand how one can accept everything just “is”. It seems like an intellectual cop-out to me that doesn’t address the root questions of everything. I’m not saying i have the answers, but i AM asking the questions. But hey, thats just my opinion.
Non-religious zealots.
They probably took their own sign. You know put it there for a few seconds; then took it back.
Either a truely stupid religious person thought to abridge their freedom of speach, or
They missplaced the sign to get back into the news cycle.
Every knee shall bow. EVERY knee.
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