Posted on 09/14/2017 9:16:16 PM PDT by thecodont
If you're like me, you might have noticed religious billboard ads seem to have proliferated around the Bay Area. I've seen them all over my morning commute and encountered one on a recent trip to Sacramento that made me especially curious. "After you die," it professed in large block letters, "you WILL meet God."
The ads have been spotted in several locations around Oakland and San Francisco, so my first assumption was that the billboards were being put on by a local or California-based mega-church. But I figured my questions were better answered through a call to the toll-free number itself, so I dialed 855-FOR-TRUTH.
Within seconds, an automated voice listed off a few of the paths I could take while on the call. I could learn more about the gospel billboards, listen to brief explanations about each billboard's messages, or, if I were feeling lonely or discouraged, I could press 3.
I began with the billboard messages. The voice listed nine of the ads I could choose to learn more about, including some I'd already seen, like "There is evidence for God" and "Beyond reasonable doubt — JESUS IS ALIVE!"
I thought it might be nice to talk to a representative. I spent 10 minutes on the phone with Benji, who didn't want to give his last name. I found out Benji was a call center operator based in Indiana. He's part of a small group of 10-20 men who field these calls from all over the U.S. for an organization called Christian Aid Ministries.
Christian Aid Ministries was founded in 1981 as a Mennonite-Amish ministry organization. With headquarters in Berlin, Ohio, it's a distributive nonprofit for Amish, Mennonite and other conservative Anabaptist groups and individuals around the world.
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From what I have seen, they are the most viciously anti-religion creatures on earth.
One goes where the lost are.
There’s a billboard in Eugene , OR that says it as well.
Actually Springfield, OR on 126.
If a billboard helps a lost soul seek Jesus Christ, that’s great.
Amazing the amount of investigative work the media performs when it involves Christians or conservatives. I know more about this billboard group than I do about the leadership for Antifa.
What’s the deal with all the sodomites parading around naked most every day?
Homosexuals tend to be vicious in general.
Domestic violence is common among homosexuals. Yet they put forth this image of love and tolerance, lecture us how love trumps hate and all that.
I wonder about their mindset, in that, they have a tendency to criticize “breeders”. Breeders are those of us who are heterosexual and have had children. All of the homosexuals had breeder parents who conceived them. So if they have resentment for breeders, they must have resentment to their own parents, right??? If they are intellectually honest, that would be the case, right??
No one will have the excuse they never heard.
I’d like to see a billboard in Portland that says “F*ck Communist Portland”. Now that would be telling the truth.
Huh? The priesthood is full of them.
All the sodomites parading around naked most every day? Hmmm. I lived in SF for 10 years, knew and worked with a lot of homosexuals, never saw one parade around naked, other than a few on TV at the Gay Pride Parade. I think maybe you’re exagerating a tad.
There hasn’t been intellectual honesty in dealing with homosexuals since the American Psychiatric Association removed them from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) in 1973 on leftist political/social and not medical grounds (to wit, two of the three reasons given were: “coupled with changing social norms and the development of a politically active gay community in the United States”*).
*http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_mental_health.html
If you need a billboard to find your faith, then you are hopeless.
Well it could a very good start.
Like Jesus said, when asked why he spent so much time with those who the apostles disapproved of, “It isn’t the well that need to be ministered to.”
If you need a billboard to find your faith, then you are hopeless.”””
Well, yeah. What’s your point, that you’re perfect?
The purpose of the billboard is not to help people
“find their faith”. It is to remind them that they
can look for it.
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