Posted on 11/12/2010 2:31:04 PM PST by NYer
The Stiefel Freethought Foundation and The American Humanist Association, which has run ads critical of God and the national motto, launched a nationwide campaign Tuesday that directly challenges the Bible and the Quran.
In its largest marketing endeavor, the groups plan to spend at least $200,000 toward television, newspaper and bus ads promoting secular humanist values by putting them head-to-head with what the group calls "biblical morality and fundamentalist Christianity."
Last year, AHA ran “No God? No Problem!” bus ads for its national holiday ad campaign. But this time around, the group is taking it a step further to show "that secular humanist values are consistent with mainstream America and that fundamentalist religion has no right to claim the moral high ground."
"While the Bible may contain some valuable lessons, it has messages on hate and war. It teaches hate and religious bigotry. It presents values that are the antithesis of American self-reliance, individual liberty and equality before the law," AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt said Tuesday at a press conference announcing the campaign.
The latest atheist ad campaign takes on moral topics including women, slavery, war, homosexuality, and punishment by comparing verses from the Bible and Quran with quotes from AHA or humanist figures. It then invites viewers to "Consider Humanism."
One ad on homosexuality juxtaposes scripture from Leviticus that calls the act of a man lying with another man "detestable," with an AHA resolution affirming "sexual equality" and the legalization of same-sex marriage.
One video ad features the renowned atheist Richard Dawkins giving the humanist take on intelligence. Responding to a Bible verse from Proverbs 3:5, which calls on believers to trust in the Lord and not lean on their own understanding, Dawkins says that belief should be supported by "evidence and logic" and not by "tradition, authority or revelation."
Quotes from the Quran were used in ads addressing the humanist response to war and violence.
"We are raising the flag for atheists and agnostics who are already humanists but didn't know the term and also didn't know there is an advocacy organization out there for them that they might join instead of joining a church," said Speckhardt.
The campaign will include a television spot on NBC Dateline on Friday and print ads in major newspapers, including USA Today, the Seattle Times, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Ads will also run in Metro trains in Washington, D.C., on billboards in Idaho, and on buses in select cities.
Earlier this year, AHA also targeted the national motto and the National Day of Prayer in marketing campaigns for its organization. The humanist group ran billboards reading "In Good We Trust" in Idaho in April and later declared May 6 the National Day of Reason to counter the National Day of Prayer.
You mean all the fundamentalists living in San Francisco?
“The fool hath said in his heart There is no God”
Psalm 53:1
History repeats:
Soviet Union: Society of the Godless
Society of the Godless; other names include The Union of Belligerent Atheists or The League of the Militant Godless and The Union of the Godless, was a mass volunteer antireligious organization of Soviet workers and others in 1925-1947 . . .
Guided by Bolshevik principles of antireligious propaganda and party’s orders with regards to religion, S.o.G. aimed at fighting religion in all its manifestations and forming scientific mindset among the workers. It popularized atheism and scientific achievements, conducted individual work with religious people, prepared propagandists and atheistic campaigners, published scientific literature and periodicals, organized museums and exhibitions, conducted scientific research in the field of atheism and critics of religion.
S.o.G.’s slogan was:
“Struggle against religion is a struggle for socialism”
(snip)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Godless
About a quarter-mile from where I'm sitting at the moment. It was a largish billboard with a picture of a quarter with an extra "o" on God. Stunningly clever. The current one has a "we believe, they believe" dichotomy in text too small to be read from the road. These guys really need a media consultant.
They're selling it as "all these poor humanists need protection from feeling bad" but it comes across as "everything you believe is wrong." Personally I'm not even offended, it's too juvenile for that.
Does this mean that you have capitulated to the Islamists already? Do they frighten you this much? Man up!
Sure he’s not just there..I think you know I was just using a figure of speech.
J.S.
Lets consider the biggest proponents of ‘humanism’ the last 100 years.
Stalin. Killed tens of millions of his own citizens.
Mao and company. Killed tens of millions of his own citizens. Forced sterilizations for 1-child only policies.
Pol Pot. Millions killed.
Eastern bloc countries under communism. Millions killed directly or out of neglect of the benevolent humanist governments.
Any humanist - this is your ideology to it’s normal extreme conclusions. Man is everything therefore man can do whatever he wants to others as long as they have the power to do it and might is right. That is humanism in its purist form. We are god. Do what we say, we know better than you, if you don’t we’ll force you to do it or kill you. Humanism makes every single thing you do in your life meaningless and arbitrary, in the grand scheme of things.
The only claim to goodness or morality the humanists have is due to the Judeo-Christian foundation they blindly stand on, all the while disdaining it.
jw
“Nice to see them taking on the Muslims, though.”
Even more entertaining will be when the Muslims take on them.
“Does God ever take a vacation from Heaven?”
Yes. The last time He did was from January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989 when He knew that the world was in good hands in His absence.
I see we have another who has read from the Gospel of Reagan.
You also owe me a keyboard!
“Perhaps these people would be happy if a god like Dionysus was worshipped instead. After all, he never hurt anyone, right?”
This sort of idea actually goes back to Nietzsche and his followers, who maintained that the pagan cults were robust and masculine and that Christianity weakened and pacified mankind. The Nazis then took it up as well, and Hitler (an admirer of Islam) often lamented that Germany was a Christian nation.
Atheism... the new religion. Isn’t that a violation of the First Amendment? No wait - liberals have made it the state-mandated secular religion to be indoctrinated into our kids in the public schools!
I blame that on the feminizing of Jesus that has occurred over the ages. Jesus is often portrayed as a weakling pacifist would never lift a finger in anger towards anyone, even though there is ample Scriptural text that portrays Jesus as a strong man who wasn't hesitant to use physical violence when He felt it was needed to get the job done.
“I blame that on the feminizing of Jesus that has occurred over the ages. Jesus is often portrayed as a weakling pacifist would never lift a finger in anger towards anyone, even though there is ample Scriptural text that portrays Jesus as a strong man who wasn’t hesitant to use physical violence when He felt it was needed to get the job done.”
Like chasing the money changers from the temple.
Their minds are so open their brains have fallen out (and can’t get up).
Also bear in mind that Jesus was a carpenter by trade. He would have to be physically strong to do this job entirely by hand as it was done at the time.
Given how many atheists buy outright the idea that islam is tolerant and peaceful with cherries on top, it is downright scary what muslims will take off of them.
I wonder if some Mullah will issue a fatwa for blasphemy against theses humanists.
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