They're certainly out there...and in larger numbers than atheist billboards, I dare say.
Posted on 12/08/2013 12:35:03 PM PST by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Imagine if an activist group blanketed a major city with 55 billboards urging that illegal aliens go back to their own country. Or that homosexuality is a crime against nature. Or that Muslims are responsible for most of the world’s terrorist attacks.
The mainstream media would be all over the story. Organizations – like La Raza, like GLAAD, like CAIR – would organize protests. President Obama would publicly condemn the billboards (while defending illegals, homosexuals and Islam). And the sponsors of the billboards would be branded a “hate group.”
Yet, there has been little outrage over the 55 billboards that started going up last week in Sacramento, California that mock Christians, that blaspheme God. They are sponsored by the so-called Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist organization based in Madison, Wisconsin that truly is a hate group.
“I don’t believe in Odin, either,” sneers one billboard. “Studying the bible made me an atheist,” disparages another. “Without god I am full of love,” declares still another.
Yet, Judy Saint, director of FFRF’s newly formed Sacramento chapter, insists that the 55 billboards are not anti-Christian, not anti-God. They just thought it would be a good way to encourage atheists on the down low to “come out of the closet”
“There are thousands of us here,” she said, “and we are reaching out to them because it’s such a maligned minority. If the message at all is to believers, it would be that we are good moral people, too.”
But, by her own words, Saint reveals the nefariousness of the atheist movement in this country.
She suggests that atheists are an unfairly maligned minority. But if the noisome atheist community – which constitutes less than 1 percent of the U.S. population – is maligned, it’s because of their attacks on Christians by in-your-face atheist groups like FFRF.
Indeed, not only are the atheists putting up 55 billboards that bash the religious faith of more than three-quarters of Americans, they have deliberately chosen to do so during the Christmas season, defecating on a holy day on which Christians celebrate the birth of Christ the Lord.
Saint also claims that she and her fellow atheists are both “good” and “moral.”
But there is no good in the atheists’ (un)holy war against Christianity, using billboards as their weapon of attack. And there is no morality in the atheist community’s endorsement of such practices as same-sex marriage.
Indeed, one of FFRF’s 55 billboards features Saint, the atheist hate group’s Sacramento front woman, and her wife with the message: “Reason. Equality. Doing Good – All without gods.”
That’s the arrogance of atheists that they inherited from their father, the devil. They think that “doing good” means they are good. But the Bible advises that their good works, whatever they might be, “are as filthy rags” before the Almighty.
The Word of God also tell us, everyone, “There is none righteous, no not one.”
The difference between unrighteous Christians and unrighteous atheists is that Christians are born again; their sins covered by the blood of Christ. Atheists, on the other hand reject Christ, and shake their fist at God.
And for their unrepentant, unforgiven sin, the unGodly will spend their existence beyond this fallen world in everlasting torment.
So, what do we conclude? Like liberals, they're all dead inside. Their slim shot at happiness is to make everyone around them just as dead.
There are countless former atheists who have received that amazing grace.
I honestly have never seen a billboard erected by a church. I agree the money could be better spent.
Being an atheist, how do you reconcile the fact that nothing can proceed from nothing...With not believing in a higher power?
Be that as it may. For a long time I had claimed to be an agnostic. But I would NEVER have claimed to be an atheist.
In the name of free speech, presumably?
It always seemed a strange sort of activity to me, this billboard business. After all, I don’t believe in Krishna, but I really don’t feel compelled to put up billboards in Calcutta telling them they shouldn’t.
“Their slim shot at happiness is to make everyone around them just as dead.”
I think that’s maybe their problem, they don’t seek happiness and freedom, they are vainly chasing control. Control is illusive, with or without God. Happiness can be found with God. I give up control and find happiness with faith in God all powerful. That’s my belief.
You must not get out much....
Churches advertise in many cities...
I'd seen many on the highways and byways..
They're certainly out there...and in larger numbers than atheist billboards, I dare say.
(sarcasm)
I think the the FFRF should do just that. But they are too timid to do so on their own. Instead I think that it should be done for them, on their behalf.
Just slight modifications to their posters, then repost them. Like this, based on their real posters:
“Reason. Equality. Doing good. — All without Allah.”
“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of Islam.” — Butterfly McQueen
“Praise Darwin. Evolve Beyond Islam.”
“Imagine no Islam.”
“I believe in humanity, not Islam.”
“Islam doesn’t need rights. People do.”
“Islam is just a fairy tale.”
“I gave up being a Muslim, and I’ve never been happier!”
“Studying the Koran made me an Atheist.”
“Islam is garbage. Mohammed is a lie.”
So, you agree, but it’s just bad form to put it on bill boards?
I guess they think it makes them look superior...
Small minds think that way...
I could care less about their lack of a belief or faith in God...
It does not bother me in the least...
My father became an atheist in a foxhole.
“It always seemed a strange sort of activity to me, this billboard business. After all, I don’t believe in Krishna, but I really don’t feel compelled to put up billboards in Calcutta telling them they shouldn’t.”
Exactly. These guys believe a lot more than they want to admit. They are fighting themselves, not believers.
That is sad.
I like the way you think. I would love for islamists and atheists go at it.
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